Tamara Kamatovic

Tamara Kamatovic is a Lecturer at the Yehuda Elkana Center for Teaching, Learning, and Higher Education Research, where she designs and teaches courses and facilitates workshops for doctoral students and faculty at CEU and partner institutions. She focuses on themes related to inclusive teaching, research-enriched teaching, and technology-enhanced learning. She also leads and coordinates mentorship of Global Teaching Fellows.

She received her PhD from the University of Chicago, where she conducted research at the intersection of literature, history, and philosophy. Currently, her research investigates the relationship between civic education and democratic teaching practices, as well as the impact of emerging technologies on education. Both her teaching and research are informed by interdisciplinary and urgent interventions into a rapidly changing educational context. She is deeply engaged in multidisciplinary projects with educationalists, philosophers, and social scientists. She has written and published on the relationship between generative AI, authorship, learning, and writing practices. She has also co-authored work on the modality of online teaching and its relation to inclusive and democratic pedagogical practice and is co-leading a book project that collects best practices in inclusive teaching from faculty across the globe, with editorial introductions on the relationship between civil society, democratic teaching, and inclusivity. She has presented at conferences on topics related to democratic education and has given talks on the philosophy of education, including the concept of training and educating “intelligence” in the development of emerging technologies, Nietzschean approaches to educating with technologies, and the biopolitics of emerging technologies, such as data analytics and surveillance.

She has a strong record of collaboration with colleagues and peers across global alliances, disciplines, and civil society. In 2023, her engagement with inclusive education was recognized with an invitation to the prestigious Salzburg Global Seminar, where she founded a working group that examines civic education from the perspective of disengaged and disillusioned youth.

She is a co-director of the Open Society University Network’s Developing Teaching Professionals program and organizes the Annual Elkana Symposium.