Sreca Perunovic earned her doctorate in sociology from the University of Zagreb, Croatia (the former Yugoslavia). Her doctoral thesis, "Ethnic Identity and Cultural Traits - The Croats in Hungary," was based on the first large international sociological survey conducted in post-WWII Hungary. She was principle investigator of that project, undertaken by the Institute on Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Zagreb. Prior to coming to John Jay in Fall 1997, she was a visiting scholar in the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has also taught at New School University. Her academic interests include ethnicity, the intersection of race and crime, ethnic/political conflicts, nationalism, international war crimes tribunals, nonviolent policies/movements, minorities, culture/media, and social change. She offers courses on sociology of violence, race & ethnicity, criminology, multiculturalism, cultural anthropology, media and the war. She has published articles in Journal of International Law and Politics, European Journal of Intercultural Studies, and Journal of Ethnic Studies, among others.