Danilo Mandić

Danilo Mandić is Associate Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Faculty Associate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Faculty Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His researches focus on war, refugees, social movements, nationalism, ethnic relations, organized crime and conflict societies. His first book Gangsters and Other Statesmen received the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award (2022) and the ASA Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict's Best Book Award​​​​​​ (2022). His second book The Syrian Refugee Crisis draws on extensive fieldwork from five countries to challenge conventional wisdom on the politics of displacement. His next book, Bad Refugees: Geopolitics, Stigma and Forced Migration in Modern Times, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Mandić is founding Director of the Refugee Fieldwork Program, which places students at humanitarian, policy, and research opportunities with refugees abroad. Undergraduates interested in summer internship opportunities are welcome to apply.

Thank you to the Harvard Classes of 2025 and 2026 for voting me "Favorite Professor" - a profound honor. My farewell Yearbook messages here (Class of 2025) and here (Class of 2026). I question the undergraduates' judgement, if not sanity. - DM

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