Marija Antić (maiden name Martinović) is an Associate professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography, Department of Human geography, where she gives lectures on the antropogeography, geography of settlements and geography of rural development and rural restructuring at the levels of under-graduate, Master and PhD studies. Her research interests are related to human geography, predominantly rural geography, impact of migration processes on rural development and transformation of rural areas of Serbia and SEE. She has been working on four national and five international projects, organized by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), which were dealing with development issues of Serbia and South-Eastern Europe. She has published more than 50 papers in the peer-reviewed journals, including two scientific monographs and four chapters in monographs. She participated in many conferences and seminars in Serbia an EU. Also, she participated in organization of International Scientific Conferences ’’Contemporary migration in a changing world: new perspective and challenges’’. Over a last decade she spent considerable time at a fieldwork conducting different human geographic topics and issues mainly in Serbia and SEE.
Migration relevant publications
Antić, M., Šantić, D., Kasanin-Grubin, M., Malić, A. (2017). Sustainable Rural Development in Serbia – Relationship between Population Dynamics and Environment. Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology, 18 (1), 323-331.
Šantić, D., Antić, M., Ratkaj, I., Budović, A. (2017). Migration and Demographic Shrinkage in Rural Areas in Serbia. Regions Magazine, 305, 9-11.
Šantić, D., Spasovski, M., Antić, M. (2018). Novi izazovi u populacionim istraživanjima i neophodnost njihove primene u prostornom planiranju (New challenges in population research and the significance of their application in spatial planning). Zbornik radova: Lokalna samouprava u planiranju i uređenju prostora i naselja, pp. 37 – 46. Beograd: Asocijacija prostornih planera Srbije; Univerzitet u Beogradu – Geografski fakultet.
Šantić, D., Martinović, M., Kozlovs, M. (2016). Migrant Remittances in Serbia, a New Approach. Collection of papers: 4th International Congres „Migration in XXI century, Causes and Consequences“, pp. 37 – 50.
Антић, M. (2016). Антропогеографска проучавања насеља Заплања (Anthropogeographical researches of settlements in Zaplanje region). Београд: Универзитет у Београду – Географски факултет, pp. 358.
Šantić, D., Martinović, M. (2016). Pitanja demografskog razvitka u dokumentima prostornog razvoja – primena EU iskustva (Demographic development issues in spatial development documents – applying EU experience). Zbornik radova: Lokalna samouprava u planiranju i uredjenju prostora i naselja – u susret evropskim integracijama, pp. 181 – 187. Beograd: Asocijacija prostornih planera Srbije, Univerzitet u Beogradu – Geografski fakultet.
Martinović, M., Ratkaj, I. (2015). Sustainable Rural Development in Serbia: Towards a Quantitative Typology of Rural Areas. Carpathian journal of earth and environmental sciences, 10 (3), 37-48.
Migration relevant projects
2019: Research on population attitudes and intentions on migration and the impact of migration on the demographic aging in four municipalities in Serbia in order to create recommendations for population policy (Ministry for Demography and Population Policy)
2011- : Development problems and trends of geospatial systems of Republic of Serbia (Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia)
Migration relevant conferences
2019: CAT-ference: 8th International Urban Geographies of Post-communist States Conference, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography, Belgrade.
2016: International scientific conference “Contemporary migration in changing world: new perspectives and challenges“, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography, Regional Study Association, MICaRD, Belgrade
2016: Regional Studies Association Annual Conference 2016: ‘Building Bridges: Cities and Regions in a Transnational World‘, Karl-Franzen- University, Graz.
2016: 4th International Congres „Migration in XXI century, Causes and Consequences“,Brčko: Evropski Univerzitet Brčko Distrikt; Tuzla: Evropski Univerzitet „Kallos“.
2015: Global Growth Agendas: Regions, Institutions and Sustainability, Regional Studies Association Annual Conference.
2014: IGU Regional Conference: „Changes, Challenges, Responsibilities”, International Geographical Union (IGU), Krakow.