Katarina Bogosavljevic (She/Her) is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include affect theory, sociology of emotions, emotions and the law, illness and identity, critical victimology and criminology, and popular representations of ‘crime’, ‘criminality’, and the criminal justice system. She is a member of the Law and Society Association’s Law and Emotions Collaborative Research Network and the American Society of Criminology Division of Victimology.

She is currently working on her dissertation which explores the emotional and felt experience of HIV nondisclosure and disclosure, on being diagnosed and living with HIV, and on the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure. The project is funded through a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship. She is also a recipient of the University of Ottawa Graduate Student Knowledge Mobilization Training Scholarship. To find out more information about the project visit the ‘dissertation’ section of this website.

Katarina is also a student advocate having sat on the board of the University of Ottawa’s Graduate Student’s Association for the past three years and has been President of the Criminology Graduate Students Association for the past two years. She strives to always be engaged in her community having helped to organize the We Can’t Police the Pandemic Group in response to punitive pandemic policies and has been involved in groups such as the Criminalization and Education Project.

Currently, she is a member of the newly formed Ottawa Transformative Justice Collective where she works with other community members to better understand transformative justice practices/philosophies and to build community relationships so that we may end our over reliance on the criminal justice system to deal with harms. She is also a member of the steering committee for the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization where she works with other researchers, people living with HIV, and community members to make legislative changes that will significantly reduce the number of people criminalized for HIV nondisclosure.

You can find her on the University of Ottawa UniWeb Page and ResearchGate.

Her CV can be accessed here.