Ljiljana Gavrilović

Prof. Dr. Ljiljana Gavrilović (1953- ), ethnologist-anthropologist, and has worked in all institutions where an ethnologist-anthropologist can be professionally engaged in Serbia: in the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade (1981-1999), in the Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences (2002-2019) and at Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Department of Ethnology and Anthropology (2013-2017). She has the highest professional (museum advisor, 1996), scientific (Principal Research Fellow, 2012), and academic title (full professor, 2017). She has been retired since the beginning of 2020.
Ljiljana Gavrilović was engaged in various research fields: customary law, material culture, ethnographic museology, and heritology, with an emphasis on intangible cultural heritage, balancing between European/metanational and national, as well as global, regional, and local aspects of the topics she dealt with. Her efforts to open completely new fields in domestic anthropological production are particularly significant, such as the examination of science fiction (she published her first work from this subfield back in 1986) or - in recent years - the examination of virtual/digital games, worlds and digital culture as a whole.
Her work resulted in the publication of eight (8) independent and three (3) co-authored books, more than 120 scientific papers, participation in many domestic and international conferences, editing of large publications and anthologies, and work in the editorial offices of scientific journals.