Interests and methodology of research

Dr Mirjana Vojvoda has been researching antique numismatic since 1995 and is focused on: hoards of Roman coins from Moesia Superior and neighbouring provinces; circulation of provincial coinage, particularly from Viminacium and Niceia; roles that coinage had in funerary rituals in Viminacium necropolises; iconography and propaganda on Roman imperial coins, and on the monetary finds from on-going archaeological research in Viminacium.

Education

2005 – Doctoral thesis in Archaeology. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, PhD: Summa militaris on Roman coins and medallions from the Principate

2002 – Master’s thesis in Archaeology. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. MA: Group finds of Roman coins from the 2^nd and the 3^rd century in Moesia Superior as archaeological confirmations of Barbarian attacks

1993 – Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Employment

2024 – Institute of Archaeology, Principal Research Fellow

2018 – Institute of Archaeology, Senior Research Associate

2005 – Institute of Archaeology, Research Associate

2003 – Institute of Archaeology, Research Assistant

1993 – National Museum in Smederevska Palanka, curator

Languages: English

Director of projects

Participation in projects

Living Danube Limes Interreg: Danube Transnational Programme (2020-2022)

(2011 – 2019) IRS – Viminacium, Roman city, and military legion camp – research of material culture and non-material of inhabitants by using the modern technologies of remote detection, geophysics, GIS, digitalisation, and 3D visualisation

International conferences

• The 10^th Joint Meeting of ECFN and Nomisma.org & 2nd BulgNR TOGETHER, 19-23 June 2023 Sofia
• Water divides – water connects. Roman military, commercial and cultural contacts from the Middle Danube to the Black Sea, 25-26 May 2023, Budapest
• XVI International Numismatic Congress INC, 11-16 September 2022, Warsaw
• Fundmünzen & Co. 30 anni di Ritrovamenti Monetali di Età Romana, 22-23 April 2022, Trieste
• The 9^th Joint Meeting of ECFN and Nomisma.org, Viminacium 21-25 September 2021
• III International Municipal Museums Association Platform Congress, November 15, 2021, Istanbul
• 8ht Joint Meeting of ECFN and Nomisma.org, Messina, 2-4 May 2019
• International Numismatic Symposium: Coin Hoards in southeastern Europe, Rousse, 20-23 June 2019
• 3rd International Conference „Roman and Late Antique Thrace“ (RaLATh), Komotini, Greece, 18-21 October 2018
• 24th International Limes Congress, Serbia, September 2018
• The International Numismatic Symposium »Circulation of Antique Coins in Southeastern Europe«, Viminacium 15-16 September 2017

Bibliography

Monographs

• Redžić, S. Golubović, M. Vojvoda, VIMINACIUM – Lokalitet Kod koraba. Istočna nekropola, Beograd 2022.
• Vojvoda, S. Golubović, I. Mikić, Mors immatura. Novac i apotropejsko-profilaktički elementi u pogrebnim ritualima – južna nekropola Viminacijuma / Coinage and apotropaic-prophylactic elements in funerary fituals – southern Viminacium cemetery, Beograd / Belgrade 2021.
• Vojvoda M. i Mrđić N. 2017. Coin finds from the Viminacium necropolis of Pećine and their role in funerary ritual/Nalazi novca sa viminacijumske nekropole Pećine i njihova uloga u pogrebnom ritualu, Belgrade: Institute of Archaeology.
• Vojvoda M. i Mrđić N. 2015. Coin finds from the Viminacium necropolis of Više grobalja and their role in funerary ritual/Nalazi novca sa viminacijumske nekropole Više grobalja i njihova uloga u pogrebnom ritualu, Belgrade: Institute of Archaeology.

Chapters in international monographs and edited volumes

• Vojvoda, Reverse motives with military insignia of Nicaea coinage. Finds from the Territory of presen-day Serbia, In: B. Callegher and Giulio Carraro (eds.), Fundmümzen & Co. 30 Years of Ancient Coin Finds (VI c. BCE – VIII c. CE), Trieste, April 22^nd-23^rd, 2022, Polymnia. Numismatica Antica e Medievale. Studi 17, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2023, 103-120.
• Vojvoda, A. Crnobrnja, Circulation of „Provincia Dacia“ coinage at the territory of present-day Serbia, In: D. Breeze et all (eds.), LIMES XXIIII. Proceedings of the 24^th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, 2^nd– 9^th September 2018, Viminacium – Belgrade, Serbia, Volume I, Belgrade 2023, 557-565.
• Vojvoda, I. Mikić, Coins as grave goods in child inhumation graves and their position in relation to the deceased. Case of the Viminacium southern necropolis, Proceedings of the 1^st International Conference Bulgarian Numismatic Readings, First Bulgarian Numismatic Readings (BulgNR), Sofia 2023, 18-29.
• Vojvoda, J. Anđelković Grašar, Viminacium – History and Research, in: M. Vojvoda, B. Milovanović, I. Danković (eds.), VIVERE IN VRBE VIMINACIVM, Vol. I, Belgrade 2022, 9-19.
• Borić-Brešković, M. Vojvoda, Roman Coin Hoards deposited during the reign of Philip I from the territory of present-day Serbia, In: V. Varbanov, N. Rusev (eds.), Materials from the International Numismatic Symposium “Coin hoards in Southeastern Europe (1st–6^th century AD), Rousse 2021, 95-105.
• Borić-Brešković, M. Vojvoda, Monetary Find from Paraćin. The Problem of Dating Scattered Coin Hoards; In: I. Popović, S. Petković (eds.) ILLYRICVM ROMANUVM. Studiola in honorem Miloje Vasić, Belgrade 2020, 132-145.
• Borić-Brešković, M. Vojvoda, Circulation of Provincial Coins of the Viminacium Colony, In: S. Golubović, N. Mrđić (eds.), VIVERE MILITARE EST, From Populus to Emperors – Living in the Frontier, Vol. II, Belgrade 2018, 73-100.
• Tapavički-Ilić, M. Vojvoda, Oil-lamp typology from the Roman cemetery “Kod Bresta” – Viminacium excavations 1985-1992. In: L. Chrzanovski, A. Nestorovic (eds.), Ancient Lamps from Balkans and Beyond, Monographies Instrumentum 59, Autun: Editions Monique Mergoil, 2018, 487-504.
• Vojvoda, A. N. Crnobrnja, Circulation of the coins of Bithinian mint of Nicaea in Moesia Superior, In: V. Ivanišević, B. Borić-Brešković, M. Vojvoda (eds.) Proceedings of the International Numismatic Symposium »Circulation of Antique Coins in Southeastern Europe«, Belgrade 2018, 131-141.
• М. Војвода, С. Реџић, Циркулација римског новца у српском делу лимеса (I-V век) / Circulation of Roman Coins in the Serbian part of the Limes (1st – 5th century), In: M. Korać, S. Pop-Lazić (eds.) Римски лимес и градови на тлу Србије/Roman Limes and cities in the territory of Serbia, Београд 2018, 50-55; 239-281.

Papers in scientific journals

• Vojvoda, I. Bogdanović, G. Stojić, The Hoard of 4^th Century Bronze Coins from the Viminacium Amphitheatre, Archaeologia Bulgarica XXVIII, 1 (2024), 41-48.
• Borić-Brešković, M. Vojvoda, A hoard of denarii and antoniniani from the village of Glibovac near Smederevska Palanka, Numizmatičar 41, 9-190, 2023.
• Vojvoda, A. Crnobrnja, Coin Hoards Dated to the Time of Maximinus I from the Territory of Present-Day Serbia, Archaeologia Bulgarica XXVI, 3 (2022), 57-66.
• Borić-Brešković, M. Vojvoda, A hoard of denarii and antoniniani from the village of Klisurica near Prokuplje (southern Serbia), Numizmatičar 40, 2022, 9-304.
• Vojvoda, S. Golubović, S. Redžić, Coin Finds from the Eastern Viminacium Necropolis – the Site Kod koraba, Archaeology and Science 17, 2021, 53-81
• Borić-Brešković, M. Vojvoda, A scattered hoard of Roman coins in the territory of Serbia (unknown site 2), Numizmatičar 39, 2021, 23–43.
• Vojvoda, S. Redžić, A hoard of solidi from a hypogeum at the Viminacium necropolis of Pećine, Arheološki vestnik 71, 2020, 217-231.
• Borić-Brešković, M. Vojvoda, Hoard of Roman silver coins and jewellery from the village of Dvorska near Krupanj (western Serbia), Numizmatičar 38, 2020, 35-181.
• Vojvoda, S. Redžić, Roman Coin Hoards of the Third Century AD found on the Territory of Moesia Superior and Serbian part of Dalmatia and Pannonia Inferior: Тhe Reasons for their burial, In: Group and individual tragedies in Roman Europe. The evidence of hoards, epigraphic and literary sources, C. Găzdac (ed.), JAHA Monographic Series 1, Cluj-Napoca 2020, 531-554.
• Vojvoda, S. Redžić, Roman Coins discovered during archaeological investigations of thermae at Viminacium (2003–2007), Journal of ancient history and archaeology (JAHA) Vol. 6 no. 3/2019, 79-98.
• Mirjana Vojvoda, Perforated Coins from graves at the Viminacium necropolis of Pećine, Starinar LXVIII, 2018, 65-87.