Veljko Đurić Mišina ( sr-cyr, Вељко Ђурић Мишина; born 8 January 1953) is a

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n historian, specializing in the history of the

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s and the

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, and modern history of the

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. He is currently the director at the Museum of Genocide Victims in

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Biography

Mišina was born in the village of Kosore near

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, into a

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family. He studied at the Philosophical Faculty at the

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. He defended his doctorate at the

University of Novi Sad The University of Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Универзитет у Новом Саду, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu; ) is a public university in Novi Sad, Serbia. Alongside nationally prestigious University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad is ...

. He worked at the Historical Museum of Serbia as a curator-historian between 1981 and 1997. He then worked as a teacher at the Philosophical Faculty at the

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, first as a docent, then associate professor, on the subject of the history of Yugoslavia, between 1997 and 2005. He was employed at the Institute of Serbian Culture in

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as director and head of research projects between 2005 and 2008. He was the director in the European High School for Sport journalism in Belgrade in 2008–09. The Serbian government decided on 23 June 2013 to appoint him the director of the Museum of Genocide Victims.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duric Misina, Veljko 20th-century Serbian historians Academic staff of the University of Pristina History of the Serbian Orthodox Church Genocide education University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni Serbs of Croatia Croatian emigrants to Serbia People from Sinj 1953 births Living people Historians of the Holocaust 21st-century Serbian historians