Larisa Kurtović is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Ottawa. She conducts research on postwar reconstruction, collective memory, and activist politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her articles and essays on ethnic nationalism, political clientelism, international democracy promotion, cultural politics and the refugee experience have appeared in a range of anthropological and interdisciplinary journals including American Ethnologist, POLAR and Nationalities Papers. She is currently working on an ethnographic monograph entitled Future as Predicament: Political Life after Catastrophe, as well as on a graphic ethnography entitled Reclaiming Dita, which is a product of collaborative and engaged field research among factory workers and activists in the city of Tuzla.