I passionately believe that historical research must remove all disciplinary boundaries and benefit from methodological and theoretical observations from other disciplines.

Here are some of my publications:

Books

2026    Simić, Ivan.Sickle and Veil: Communist Gender Policies Towards Muslim Minorities in Eastern Europe. University of Toronto Press.

2018    Simić, Ivan.Soviet Influences on Postwar Yugoslav Gender Policies. Palgrave Macmillan (Genders and Sexualities in History series).

Peer-reviewed Articles

2026 Simic, Ivan. ‘Blood Knows No Borders: Blood Donation and Transfusion Systems in Yugoslavia.’ Contemporary European History. 2026;35:e54.
2022 Simic, Ivan. ‘Prostitution in Socialist Yugoslavia: From Stalinism to the Yugoslav Way.’ European Review of History.
2021 Simic, Ivan. ‘Yugoslav Gender Experiments and Soviet Influences.’ In The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia, edited by Katalin Fábián, Janet Elise Johnson, and Mara Irene Lazda, 333–41. Routledge, 2021.
2019 Simić, Ivan. ‘The Curious Case of Aleksandar Milivojević: the Donja Toponica Hospital and Mental Health in Socialist Yugoslavia.’ Social History of Medicine.
doi:10.1093/shm/hkz033.
2019 Simić, Marina and Simić, Ivan. ‘Who Should Care About Our Children?: Public Childcare Policy in Yugoslav Socialism and Its Serbian Aftermath.’ Journal of Family History.
doi:10.1177/0363199019831402.
2018 Simić, Ivan. ‘Building Socialism in the Countryside: The Impact of Collectivisation on Yugoslav Gender Relations.’ Journal of Social History.
doi:10.1093/jsh/shx023.
2018 Simić, Ivan. ‘Gender Policies and Amateur Sports in Early Yugoslav Socialism.’ The International Journal of the History of Sport.
doi:10.1080/09523367.2017.1402762.
2016 Simić, Ivan. ‘Gender and Youth Work Actions in Post-War Yugoslavia.’ In Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, edited by Catherine Baker, 143–56. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
2015 Simić, Ivan. ‘Soviet Model for Yugoslav Post-War Legal Transformation: Divorce Panic and Specialist Debate.’ Annual for Social History, no. 2 (2015): 83–101.
2011 Simić, Ivan. ‘Global History and Gender Studies: Trends, Problems and Perspectives.’ Annual for Social History 3 (2011): 103–13.

Special Edition Editor

2019 Simic, Ivan. ‘Health Sciences in Communist Europe.’ Canadian Slavonic Papers.
doi:10.1080/00085006.2019.1594069.