A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Danilo Mandić

Danilo Mandić is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology. Mandić was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia and received his BA from Princeton.

Research Interests: Comparative historical sociology; nationalism; post-Communist transitions; Balkan history; US foreign policy and social theory.

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His interests include comparative historical analysis, historical sociology, political theory, post-communism and transitions into democracy, ethnic relations, civil war, and social movements. In his dissertation, he investigates the reasons behind the relative successes and failures of post-Cold War separatist movements.

Previous Degrees: AB in Sociology, Princeton University (Summa Cum Laude & Phi Beta Kappa)

Source: Harvard, Faculty of Arts and Sciences


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Зорана Јеленак

Др Зорана Јеленак, пореклом из Србије, већ шеснаест година као физичар прикупља податке, анализира урагане и лети овим јединственим авионима. Какав је посао ловаца на урагане, како јој је било у ураганима пете категорије и који су циљеви њихових мисија? Ово су само нека питања, која ће уз анегдоте са мисија, испричати причу о нашој храброј научници и њеном тиму.

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The Hagia Sophia

The Mystical Light of the Great Church and its Architectural Dress

by Charalambos P. Stathakis

Dear reader, as you run like the rest of us along the dizzy main road, stop, stay aside for a while. Let the others be dizzy, and take the secret underground trail, which will lead you through the dewdrops of the leaves, the crystal smile of the sun, the city’s underground galler- ies, your knowledge, and your feelings, to the doorstep of the Hagia Sophia. Because all dew- drops, all sunrays, and all beauty lead there. That is what you will be told by my friend, the author, whom I am fond of and whom I send you to, Charalambos Stathakis: the doctor, the warm and humane researcher, the scientist devoted to his work and his patients, who has given a series of scientific papers, who, nevertheless, retains a nest of beauty untouched in his heart, which makes him outstanding—even though he is not a specialist in architecture, nor a historian, nor a theologian, nor a Byzantinist—it makes him stand out in all these together and in entirety.

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