ЖЕНЕ АКАДЕМИЦИ У САНУ
FEMALE MEMBERS OF SASA

Author(s): Nada M. Milošević Đorđević
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: women; academicians; sciences; arts; Serbia
Summary/Abstract: The article presents a list of forty­six Serbian and foreign women who were accepted into membership of the Serbian Learned Society, the Serbia Royal Academy or the Serbian Academy of Sciences (and Arts) between 1876 and 2018. In a way, it is also an announcement of three or four volumes about female SASA academicians, which will be published as an Academy project by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, modeled on The Life and Work of Serbian Scientists edition. The article includes short biographies of the women, focusing on the contributions they had or have made in their careers. In the very beginning, the accepted women were typically visual artists and one was a composer (another one came later). They adopted the mainstream European styles of their time, while retaining the distinctive ethnic elements. The same pattern applied to writers, as well as to literary historians. In the fields of Ethnochoreology and Ethnomusicology, as expected given the nature of the corpus, the connections with the tradition are emphasized. Many of the female SASA members were/are historians, studying the Ancient and Middle Ages, as well contemporary events. The art historians are predominantly interested in the Medieval period. Linguistics 1s represented with all its branches, relying on the text corpora, on the one hand, and on various theoretical approaches, on the other. In the field of chemical and biological sciences, research has followed the European approaches, although new ones have also been introduced. Female physicians, well versed in the global developments, have created innovations. The mathematicians have achieved seminal accomplishments, thanks to their use of interdisciplinarity. The only electric engineer among them researches active antenna arrays. The common characteristic of all female SASA members, regardless of whether they are foreign scientists or women who stayed in their homeland, is that they have contributed greatly to Serbian science and arts.

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