Rate My Professor Daphne Winland

Daphne Winland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and M.A. in Anthropology from York University. Her research interests encompass anthropology, politics and government, diaspora and transnationalism, memory studies, Eastern Europe, Croatia, and Israel/Palestine. Areas of expertise include the impacts of the Wars of Succession in the former Yugoslavia; diaspora involvement in nation-building projects and citizenship regimes; historical revisionism and populism in Europe; transnational memory; comparative study of East European diaspora with a focus on memory activism; and political genealogies of diplomatic archives and their relationship to trans/national imaginaries, memory-making, and nation-building in Israel/Palestine. Winland's current projects examine the changing face of diaspora engagement with the Croatian homeland, including younger generations promoting neoliberal strategies in a market economy, ethnographic research on transnational memory, and comparative studies of memory activism.

Winland has authored the book We Are Now a Nation: Croats between ‘Home’ and ‘Homeland’ (University of Toronto Press, 2007) and contributed numerous book chapters and journal articles. Key publications include “Victimhood and the transnationalization of Croatian memory politics” (Memory Studies, 2022), “Between Two Wars: Generational Responses of Croats to Homeland Independence” (Diaspora: Journal of Transnational Studies, 2015), “The Politics of Desire and Disdain: Croatian Identity Between 'Home' and 'Homeland'” (American Ethnologist, 2002), “Ten Years Later: the Changing Nature of Transnational Ties in post-Independence Croatia” (Ethnopolitics, 2006), and “We Are Now an Actual Nation: The Impact of National Independence on the Croatian Diaspora in Canada” (Diaspora, 1995). She has received SSHRC Insight Grant (2013), SSHRC Strategic Research Grant (2011), SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2001), Canada 150 (2017), and Knowledge Mobilization Collaborative Research Grant (2011). Winland teaches courses such as AP/ANTH 1120 Making Sense of a Changing World and is accepting new graduate students. Her scholarship has significantly influenced understandings of post-conflict diaspora-homeland relations, memory politics, and transnational identities.