Sara Major

Sara Major, teaching assistant

Contact
Office: 337
Office phone:  021/ 459-522
E-mail: sara.mejdzor@ff.uns.ac.rs

Biography
She received her bachelor’s (2021) and master’s degree (2022) in sociology at the University of Novi Sad, and is currently a PhD student at the Department of Sociology.

She began teaching at the department first as a student instructor (2021-2023) and then as a teaching assistant (since 2023). She was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of science, technological development and innovation, and has taken part in several research stays abroad. She is also a member of the European sociological association.

Courses

• Introduction to sociology 1 (BA Sociology)
• Introduction to sociology 2 (BA Sociology)
• Statistical methods (BA Sociology)
• Sociology of poverty and deprivation (BA Sociology)
• Environmental sociology (BA Sociology)
• Urban sociology (BA Sociology)
• Sociology of knowledge (BA Sociology)
• Sociology of emotion (BA Sociology)
• Introduction to biopolitics (BA Sociology)
• Popular culture and life styles (BA Sociology)
• Sociology of politics (BA Sociology)
• Sociology of politics (BA Social Work)
• Introduction to politics (BA Communicology, BA Culturology)
• Introduction to network analysis (MA Sociology)

Research

Her primary areas of interest include the sociology of emotions, political sociology, their overlap within the political sociology of emotions, as well as the sociological study of (digital) communication. She is team member of the C-TRUST research project financed by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia.

Selected publications

• Marinković, D., & Major, S. (2020). COVID-19 and the Genealogies of Biopolitics: A Pandemic History of the Present. Sociologija, 62(4), 486‒502. https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC2004486M
• Major, S. & Tomašević, A. (2022). Identifying the Face of Populism with Computer Vision: A Deep-Learning Approach to Emotion Recognition [Conference presentation abstract]. EMERGE 2022: Digital Society Now (pp. 72). Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
• Tomašević, A., & Major, S. (2024). Dynamic exploratory graph analysis of emotions in politics. advances. in/psychology, 2, e312144. https://doi.org/10.56296/aip00021