Ph.D. Gothenburg University; 2001–2002, Affiliate Professor, Humanities Institute University of Zagreb, 1997, Guest Professor Syracuse University, 1990, Full Professor of French, Italian, Comparative Literature and Women´s Studies, College of Arts and Sciences; Stanford University, 1981–1990, Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Italian. International policy and consulting experience: Tenth United Nations Congress on International Crime, Vienna, 2000 Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues, Geneva, Sarajevo, Islamabad, 1998–99 Policy Adviser, Media Democratization Projects, Croatian Journalists´Association, Zagreb, 1997; United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague, 1995-1996

Publications include: Five books published in the US and Italy on topics such as human rights, terrorism, international law, war crimes, national identity, gender, literature and culture: Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia: a report on and analysis of sex-based war crimes in Bosnia and possible legal remedies (2001), Daring to Trust:Women after War (2002), International legal and policy papers for publications associated with the United Nations; Coauthor, The Sarajevo Declaration, Bosnian Academy of Sciences.