Jasna is Professor of International Politics and History at Goldsmiths, University of London and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Balkans. She works on memory politics, transitional justice, nationalism, state disintegration and international intervention, with a focus on former Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region.

She has provided expertise on the post-Yugoslav region to various non-academic stakeholders, including the Foreign Office, non-governmental organizations in the UK and the Western Balkans, the Royal Court Theatre, the International Commission on the Balkans, and British and international media outlets. She has held visiting fellowships at the London School of Economics and School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL. She co-edits the Palgrave book series on Memory Politics and Transitional Justice. She is currently writing a book about truth commission initiatives, nation-building and memory politics in the post-conflict Balkans.