Hi Jen!
Wow, you look GREAT! I´ve enjoyed your blog a lot and looking forward to read more in the future.
Love,
Duska
http://blog.b92.net/blog/1170/dunjica/
About Jen
I came to Fargo via a long list of geographical, intellectual, activist, and atavistic avenues and crossroads. I’m here to work with Bosnians and Southern Sudanese and the institutions that serve them. I want to know how different groups of refugees transform and are transformed by this city, and more specifically by the institutions in this city.
I’m passionate about human rights, feminism, migration, politics, literature, music, travel, friends, and family. Since 2002, I have mostly been a phd student in cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon. Informing this blog are my previous work and volunteer experiences: from 1998-2000, I worked for a Bosnian women’s nongovernmental organization (NGO) in Zenica, Medica Infoteka. While there, I coordinated research with Romani (Gypsy) women about the prevalence of domestic violence and oral histories. I speak Bosnian. Later, I worked as case manager for Lutheran Social Services Refugee and Immigration Programs in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where I learned more about the wars taking place in Sudan (and elsewhere). In 1997, I earned my B.A. in Psychology and English Literature from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa and in 2004, I got my M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from University of Oregon. In case you’re wondering, I can’t say exactly what I will do once I get my PhD but I’m hoping it will be some combination of teaching, nonprofit work, and advocacy.
Responses
By: kleinerritter on December 3, 2007
at 5:00 pm
You are an amazing person! My daughter married a Kurdish refugee whose family settled in Fargo (they now live in Nashville… 
I know a few Romani people in our area - fascinating people.
By: Trish on January 14, 2008
at 8:59 pm
Thanks so much! It’s a pleasure to meet you in this blog space.
By: jen on January 15, 2008
at 3:10 am
Jen, I just posted Sevdah at my B92 blog. You are very much invited to moderate, or at least communicate with the readers.
I also appreciate you drink Jameson, my favourite whiskey
By: kleinerritter on January 19, 2008
at 5:45 pm
Hey-
So I found this blog in a roundabout way–through the GTFF group, of all places–and I just wanted to say that I think your work is interesting and incredibly needed. I’m a native Fargoan, though I live and go to grad school in Eugene now, and after years of school and work in the F-M area I know how terribly Bosnian and Sudanese refugees are neglected. From my perspective, at least, it seemed like the only outreach extended to those communities of people took the form of hollow proselytizing.
I look forward to your updates–both for the cultural anthropological musings as well as the keen insights on my hometown.
-josh p.
By: Joshua Plencner on February 17, 2008
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Hi Josh,
It’s great to meet you virtually and I appreciate your informational comments! I miss the GTFF very much, and look forward to getting involved again when I get back next fall. What are you studying at UO?
By: jen on February 17, 2008
at 4:50 pm
Jen,
I added you to my blog roll. Sorry it took me so long to catch on that your blog existed. Am I self-centered. Um, obviously. But now, this will be a regular stop during morning coffee time!
Dave
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