Dijana is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation research focuses on the nature of relationships between individuals belonging to ethnic groups that have a history of violence between them, particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Israel. Blending qualitative and quantitative network analysis, she examines factors that aid and hinder the establishment of interpersonal cross-ethnic relationships in these countries and seeks to extract actionable policy insights. Dijana’s broader research agenda includes research in social memory, particularly the ways in which belonging to separate mnemonic communities that purport mutually-exclusive nationionalist narratives of the past hinders the establishment of and continuation of interpersonal cross-ethnic relationships, as well as the ways in which such relationships challenge those narratives and generate more complex views of the past among individuals who engage in them. Prior to her doctoral studies, Dijana spent a decade working as a project and advocacy manager with several grassroots and international civil and human rights organizations focused on refugee, indigenous, and other marginalized communities.