Dean Jasmina Besirevic-Regan (jasmina.besirevic@yale.edu ; Department Page) graduated from Augsburg College summa cum laude, a small liberal arts college in Minneapolis, MN, earning the Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology. In 2004, she received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale having also earned the Master’s degree here. Her dissertation on ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka focuses on the emergence of a Bosnian Muslim refugee community. Her teaching and research interests include genocide and ethnic conflict, identity and nationalism. Her current work focuses on the Bosnian Muslim identity and disintegration of former Yugoslavia. She has presented papers on the sociology of genocide at a number of professional meetings and has been invited to speak at international conferences both at Yale and abroad. She is currently teaching an undergraduate seminar Genocide and Ethnic Conflict in the Departments of Sociology, International Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration.

Dean Jasmina Besirevic lives in the college with her husband, Matt Regan (matthew.regan@yale.edu), who is an IT Faculty Support Specialist in the Academic Media and Technology Department at Yale ( http://www.yale.edu/its/), and their two daughters, Selma and Lejla ("j" pronounced as "y"). Selma currently attends Calvin Hill Day Care Center in New Haven, while Lejla stays at home with her grandparents and an occassional babysitter.