BILJANA ŠIMUNOVIĆ – BEŠLIN
Education:
Ph.D.
The University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy (2004)
Title: ‘Educational Politics in Danubian Regional Unit from 1929 till 1941’

LL.M.The University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy (1996)
Title:’ Matica Srpska and Yugoslav Society during the Period from 1934 till 1941’ 
B.Soc.Sc. The Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy, The Department of History (1988)
Current academic post / related positions:
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Assistant at the Department of History at the Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy (1989/2004)
Foreign languages:
English, German
Current research projects and activities:
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Projects of the Ministry for Science and Technological Development in the Republic of Serbia and international projects: Vojvodina – A Multiethnic Historical Area, (2001 - 2004/2005)
- International meetings and conferences: Teaching the Beginning of World War II, Bled (2001)
The Balkans in Europe, Braunschweig (2001)
The Position of Woman as a Measure of Modernisation, Belgrade (1998)
Education of Serbs throughout the Centuries, (domestic meeting), Belgrade (2002) 
- Member of:
Matica Srpska (and associate)
Matica Srpska Department of Lexicography
- In editorial stuff of journal Nastava istorije (Teaching of History)
Selected recent publications:
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History of Banking in Vojvodina (ed. Nikola L. Gaćeša), Novi Sad, Matica Srpska,2002 (coauthor B. Bešlin)
- How History Can Be Written. A Handbook for the Beginners, Novi Sad (Platoneum) 2001
- History for the 8th Grade, Belgrade (Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika) 2001 (2002, 2003, 2004), (co-authors D. M. Kovačević, D. Mikavica and B. Bešlin)
- Matica Srpska in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, Zadužbina Andrejević, biblioteka Dissertatio, 1997
- Schools in Srem between the World War I and World War II, Commemoration of the Historical Archive "Srem", notebook 3, Sremska Mitrovica 2004, pp. 9-29
- Education “for Bread”- Trade and Commercial Schooling in Vojvodina between the World War I and World War II, Education at Serbs throughout the Centuries (Summary of the works), Belgrade, 2003, pp. 251-274
- National Mission of Matica Srpska and Forming of Regional Unit of Croatia, Matica Srpska Digest of History, notebook 59-60, Novi Sad 1999, pp. 125-137
- Mainstream of Progressive Women – Section of Matica Srpska from 1918 till 1941, Position of Woman as a Measure of Modernisation of Serbia in 19th and 20th century, (Summary of works) Belgrade, 1998
- Historical Society in Novi Sad and to Migration of Hungarians into Pannonian Plain, 1100 Years of Settling of Hungarians into Pannonian Plain, (Summary of works), Novi Sad 1997, pp. 181-186
- About the Membership of Matica Srpska in the 1930s in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Matica Srpska Digest of History, notebook, notebook 54, Novi Sad, 1996, pp. 145-161
- Matica Srpska and Serbian Cultural Club, Researches, notebook 14, Novi Sad 1992, pp. 171-181
Areas of interesting: history of the 20th century, history of Yugoslavia, Vojvodina in the 30s of the 20th century, history of culture and history of education