Jelena Bogdanovic

Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Associate Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies

Jelena Bogdanović studies cross-cultural and religious themes in the architecture of the Balkans and the Mediterranean. Her authored and edited books include The Framing of Sacred Space: The Canopy and the Byzantine Church (Oxford UP, 2017), Type and Archetype in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture (Brill, 2023, with Ida Sinkević, Marina Mihaljević, and Čedomila Marinković) Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy (Routledge, 2021, 2023, open access 2024), Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium (Routledge, 2018, 2020), Space of the Icon: Iconography and Hierotopy (Theoria, 2019, with Michele Bacci and Vladimir Sedov), Political Landscapes of Capital Cities(UP of Colorado, 2016, with Jessica Christie and Eulogio Guzmán), and On the Very Edge: Modernism and Modernity in the Arts and Architecture of Interwar Serbia (1918–1941) (Leuven and Cornell UP, 2014, with Lilien Robinson and Igor Marjanović). She is the author of the Bloomsbury Visual Arts – Introduction: Women Architects in Eastern Europe (Bloomsbury 2025, 2026).

Bogdanović is member of the College Art Association Board of Directors,  the Board of the Trustees of the American Institute for Southeast European Studies, and the Society of Architectural Historians Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (SAH WiA AG) Legacy Committee.