Elena is a Research Officer at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, working on the ‘Gendered Peace’ project. She has previously worked as a visiting research fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Bard College Berlin, and a work package coordinator and researcher in the EU-funded project Cultures of Governance and Conflict Resolution in Europe and India at the Central European University. 

Her research has explored issues of gender, intersectionality, and political economy in conflict-affected societies, with a particular focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, and North Macedonia. Her work has appeared in different edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals, such as International Peacekeeping, Politics & Gender, Third World Quarterly, and Civil Wars.

Languages spoken: English, Spanish, Macedonian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

Selected publications:

• "‘Peace’ Across Spaces: Discussing Feminist (and) Decolonial Visions of Peace”, in Feminist conversation on peace, eds. Sarah Smith and Keina Yoshida (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022) Publishing in July 2022.

• States' obligations and intersectional considerations in the COVID-19 response and recovery, 2022.

• A different Women, Peace and Security is possible? Intersectionality in Women, Peace and Security resolutions and national action plans ( with Sarah J. Smith). European Journal of Politics and Gender, 5 (1) (2022):63-82

• "Navigating to Subsistence: The Gendered Struggles in the Postwar Everyday and Their Implications for Peace."Politics & Gender 16, no. 3 (2020).

• ‘Intersectionality and peace’ (with Sarah J. Smith), 2020. In Oliver Richmond & Gëzim Visoka (eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies
  
  
• Where are the words? The disappereance of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the language of country-specific UN Security Council Resolutions (with Sarah Kenny Werner), 2020. 

• 'Feminised Work, Invisible Labour: Against the Formal-Informal Economy Dichotomy', 2020. In Tarja Väyrynen, Élise Féron, Peace Medie, Swati Parashar & Catia Confortini (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research. 
  
  
• Economies of peace: Economy formation processes in conflict-affected societies. London: Routledge. 2019 [co-edited with Werner Distler and Birte Vogel]
  
  
• “The Mother, the Wife, the Entrepreneur? Women’s Agency and Microfinance in a Disappearing Welfare State.” Civil Wars 20: 2 (2018)
  
  
• “Economies of Peace: Processes of Economy Formation in Conflict-affected Societies.” Civil Wars 20: 2 (2018) [with Werner Distler and Birte Vogel]
  
  
• “EU Support to Civil Society Organisations in Conflict-Ridden Countries: A Governance Perspective from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, and Georgia.” International Peacekeeping 23: 2 (2016) [with Krisoffer Liden, Nona Mikhelidze and Birte Vogel]
  
  
• “Space, Class and Peace: Spatial Governmentality in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina.” In Spatialising Peace and Conflict: Mapping the Production of Places, Sites and Scales of Violence, ed. Annika Björkdahl, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, 141-158. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
  
  
• “Government of Peace and Resistive Subjectivities: Autonomy, Ethnicity and Gender in Northeast India and Bosnia and Herzegovina” In Cultures of Governance and Peace: A Comparison of EU and Indian Theoretical and Policy Approaches, ed. J. Peter Burgess, Oliver P. Richmond, Ranabir Samaddar. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016 [with Atig Ghosh].
  
  
• “Agency, Autonomy and Compliance in (Post-)Conflict Situations: Perspectives from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Jammu and Kashmir.” In Cultures of Governance and Peace: A Comparison of EU and Indian Theoretical and Policy Approaches, ed. J. Peter Burgess, Oliver P. Richmond, Ranabir Samaddar. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016 [with Sumona Das Gupta, Birte Vogel and Navnita Chadha Behera].