Interests and methodology of research

The research of Dr. Uglješa Vojvodić focuses on the medieval and Ottoman archaeology of the Central Balkans. His work explores the dynamics of central places (fortresses, monasteries, market towns) and their rural surroundings, with a particular emphasis on territorial organization and settlement patterns, as well as the relationships between centers and peripheral spaces. A significant segment of his research is dedicated to landscape archaeology, examining the long-term interaction between human societies and their environment, and the ways in which historical communities shaped and transformed the cultural landscape. Alongside spatial analysis, his work addresses questions of social stratification, as well as social and economic dynamics. In his methodology, he combines traditional archaeological and historical-geographical methods with advanced GIS tools.

Education

2025 – MSc Geographic Information System (GIS)

Faculty of Geography University of Belgrade

Master’s thesis: Application of AHP and Fuzzy-AHP Methods in the Assessment of Physical-Geographical Potentials for Cereal Cultivation within the Medieval Župa of Ras.

2023 – PhD degree in Archaeology. Faculty of Philosophy University in Belgrade:

Doctoral dissertation: Spatial analysis and socio-economic patterns of the medieval župa and nahiye of Ras.

2015 – MSc in Archaeology. Faculty of Philosophy University in Belgrade:
Master’s thesis: Archaeological aspects of the burials of nobility in medieval Serbia.

2013 – Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology. Faculty of Philosophy University in Belgrade.

Employment

2019 – Institute of Archaeology, Research Associate

2019 – Institute of Archaeology, Research Assistant

2018  – Institute of Archaeology, Research Trainee

Languages: English

Director of Projects

(2025–) Archaeological Research of the Medieval Fortress of Markovo Kale near Vranje, Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.

(2022–) Co-PI: Archaeological Research of the Medieval Fortress of Koprijan near Doljevac, Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.

(2017–2020) Co-PI: Archaeological Excavations of the Medieval Necropolis of Dublje near Novi Pazar, Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.

Participation in projects

(2023–2025) Interpreting Art of Mysterious Medieval Stećak Tombstones through Virtual Reality (StećakLand), Creative Europe

(2018–2019) Processes of urbanisation and development of medieval society, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, Institute of Archaeology

(2014–) Scientific-research project for Belgrade Fortress, Secretary of Culture of Belgrade city government.

(2012–2017) Serbian-French-German research of Caričin Grad, Institute of Archaeology in Belgrade, École Française de Rome, CNRS, Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz.

(2012–2015) Program of systematic archaeological research of the Studenica monastery.

Memberships

• Serbian Archaeological Society
• Serbian Committee of Byzantine Studies
• RURALIA (international association for the archaeology of medieval and post-medieval settlement and rural life) – national representative
• European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

Participation in international conferences

• Ruraila XVI conference, Kłodzko 8-14^th September 2025.
• ЕАА 2025, Belgrade 3-6^th September 2025.
• Ruraila XV conference, Fredrikstad, 4–10^th September 2023.
• Ruraila XIII conference, Stirling 9-15^th September 2019.
• 6^th International Conference on Mediaeval Archaeology, Zagreb 5–6^th June 2019.
• 18 simpozijum Niš i Vizantija, Niš 3–4^th Jun 2019.
• US-Serbia & West Balkan data science workshop, Belgrade 26–28^th August 2018.

Participation in national conferences

• Godišnji skupovi Srpskog arheološkog društva 2022, 2023, 2024.
• Srednjovekovna sekcija Srpskog arheološkog društva 2017, 2019, 2023.

Bibliography

Chapters in monographs and edited volumes

• Vojvodić, Medieval and Ottoman marketplaces in the Raška basin, Ruralia XV – Farmers’ Trade and Markets. Social and Economic Interaction in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside, Marie Ødegaard, Kjetil Loftsgarden & Claudia Theune(eds), Sidestone Press, Leiden 2025, pp. 97-107.
• Vojvodić, Transhumance in medieval Serbia. Examples from the Pešter Plateau and northwestern slopes of the Prokletije Mountains, Ruralia XIII – Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside, Piers Dixon & Claudia Theune (eds), Sidestone Press, Leiden 2021, pp. 69-80.
• Katić, U. Vojvodić, Transformation of the medieval urban landscape: from Serbian Ras to Ottoman Novi Pazar, in: Using Landscape in the Middle Ages in the Light of Interdisciplinary Research. Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific Conference on Mediaeval Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, 6th June 2019, eds. K. Botić at all, Zagreb 2021, 83-90.
• У. Војводић, Поглед на резултате археолошких истраживања Цркве св. апостола Петра и Павла у Расу, Ниш и Византија 18, Ниш 2020, 237-264.
• Bikić, U. Vojvodić, Pottery distribution and raw material resources in the area of medieval Ras, in: Archaeotechnology studies, Raw material exploitation from prehistory to the Middle Ages, Edd. S. Vitezović, D. Antonović, Belgrade 2017, 161-189.
• М. Ивановић, У. Војводић, Властеоска обележја у археолошком контексту, у: Византијско наслеђе у српској култури, том I, уредник Весна Бикић, Београд 2016, 159-165./М. Ivanović, Vojvodić, The Marks of Nobility in the Archaeological Context, in: Byzantine Heritage and Serbian Art I. Processes of Byzantinisation and Serbian Archaeology, edd. V. Bikić, 2016, 159-165.

Papers in scientific journals

• В. Бикић, М. Павловић, У. Војводић, А. Ропкић Ђорђевић, Х. Шил, Р. Точниг, И. Бистровић, Прилог проучавању сакралне топографије средњовековног Београда – археолошка и геофизичка перспектива, Наслеђе XXV, Београд, 9-31/ V. Bikić, M. Pavlović, Vojvodić, A. Ropkić Đorđević, H. Scheil, R. Totschnig, I. Bistrović, A contribution to the study of the sacral topography of medieval Belgrade – archaeological and geophysical perspectives, Наслеђе XXV, Belgrade, 33-57. еISSN 2560-3264.
• Т. Катић, У. Војводић, Границе жупе и нахије Рас у средњем и раном новом веку (14-16. век), Историјски часопис LXIX (2020), 127-154.
• В. Видосављевић, У. Војводић, Витруелни музеј Рас, Гласник ДКС 43 (2019), 34-37.
• У. Војводић, Црква Св. Јована у Савову код Студенице, Саопштења XLVII (2015), 67-86.
• Видосављевић В. и Војводић У. 2018. Извештај са заштитних археолошких истраживања локалитета Дубље изнад куће у Новом Пазару II. Новопазарски зборник 41: 223-226.
• Видосављевић В. и Војводић У. 2017. Извештај са заштитних археолошких истраживања локалитета Дубље изнад куће у Новом Пазару. Новопазарски зборник 40: 213-216.
• Војводић У. 2015. Црква Св. Јована у Савову код Студенице. СаопштењаXLVII: 67-86.