Bojka Milicic

Bojka Milicic is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utah, where she has held academic appointments since 1992. A native of Croatia, she studied ethnology and indology at the University of Zagreb before earning her MA (1986) and PhD (1992) in Anthropology from the University of Utah. Her career progression includes roles as Adjunct Assistant Professor (1992–2001), Assistant Professor (Lecturer) (2001–2005), and her current position since 2005.

Her research spans multiple continents, with fieldwork in Croatia, India, and Peru. Primary interests include kinship systems, gender studies, cognitive anthropology, and the application of formal models (graph theory, network analysis) to anthropological questions. She investigates symbolic systems—such as body symbolism, color classifications, and cosmological structures—while exploring language origins and literary theory.

Milicic's publications reflect sustained engagement with kinship theory, symbolic analysis, and cross-cultural methodologies, emphasizing graph-theoretic approaches and cognitive frameworks across Mediterranean, Andean, and Polynesian contexts. Recent works continue this trajectory with studies on ritual kinship in Peru (2024) and formal kinship modeling (2019).

She teaches courses including Mediterranean Cultures, Peoples of Europe, and Symbolic Anthropology, demonstrating alignment with her research expertise in European and Mediterranean societies. No laboratory affiliations, grants, or advising relationships are documented.