Danilo Šarenac (1980) is a senior research associate at the Institute of Contemporary History in Belgrade.  He finished his history studies in 2006 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. He attended the Master’s studies at the Central European University in Budapest. He defended his master thesis The Cult of the Fallen Soldier in Serbia and Hungary Seen through War Memorials 1914-1918 in 2007. He attended doctoral studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, and defended his thesis World War I and Serbia. The technicalization of warfare and the culture of memory 1914-2009 in 2011. The main area of his ​​interest is the cultural history of the First World War in the Balkans as well as the history of violence in the first half of the 20th century (with a special emphasis on the issues of banditry).

Danilo Šarenac has been abroad for training on several occasions. In 2019, he stayed at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute in Berlin, under a DAAD scholarship. During 2021, he researched in French archives as part of the Directeurs d’Etudes Associés DEA 2021 program of La Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. He collaborated on several international projects, including the ERC project on Roma emancipation: “Roma inter Bellum. Roma Civic Emancipation Between the Two Wars”. Among his recent works, the following stand out: “A View of the Disaster and Victory from below: Serbian Roma Soldiers, 1912–1918”, Social Inclusion Volume 8, Issue 2, 2020: 277–285; Danilo Šarenac, Aleksandar Miletić, Between discrimination and unplanned integration: Albanians and Bosniaks in Serbian uniform 1914-1918; Between discrimimimit dhe integrimit të paplanifikura: Shqiptartar dhe Boshnjakët në uniformën serbe në vitet 1914-1918; Between discrimination and unintended integration: Albanians and Bosniaks in Serbian uniform, 1914-1918 Novi Sad: Center for Historical Studies and Dialogue, 2020; “he Rediscovery of the Serbian Great War Veterans in Socialist Yugoslavia (1970-1989). The Case of Momčilo Gavrić, the Boy Soldier”, Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies, Volume 6, 2021: 131-154.