Emily Greble

MEMBER-AT-LARGE CANDIDATE

Emily Greble is the Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Chair in History and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is an historian of the Balkans whose research analyzes law and society, legacies of empire, minority experiences, civil conflict, and local responses to revolution.  

Greble is the author of two books and multiple scholarly articles. Her first book, Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler’s Europe (Cornell, 2011), examines the persistence of institutions and networks in the city of Sarajevo under Nazi occupation during the Second World War. It has been translated into Italian, Turkish, and Bosnian. Her second book, Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe (Oxford, 2021), traces the stories of several generations of Muslim men, women, and children in the Balkans from the 1880s to the 1940s, exploring their diverse responses to war and occupation, state-building, legal change, and the nature of the European project, and is currently being translated into Bosnian and Arabic. The book has been recognized by several prizes in the field, including the Rothschild Harriman Book Prize and the Fikret Karčić Book Prize. Greble is currently researching and writing about patriarchy, slavery, and social transformation in the nineteenth-century Balkans.  

In her work with the ASEEES community over the past two decades, Greble has sought to  expand the scholarly conversations among Anglo-American, Eastern European, and Balkan scholarly communities and amplify different voices in the profession, such as through her work as co-editor of the Women East West newsletter. She has had the privilege to serve on the board of the Association of Women in Slavic Studies and the Toynbee Prize foundation, the editorial boards of University Press Sarajevo, Prilozi, Serbian Studies, Nationalities Papers, and the American Historical Review (AHR), as a member of the ASEEES Jelavich Book Prize committee, and as a mentor for the REES Undergraduate Think Tank. As a member of the ASEEES board, she would seek to continue the excellent work of the association in expanding international outreach and forging networks across regions and fields, creating equitable access to resources, and fostering programs that support junior scholars and facilitate a diversity of voices within the profession.