Ivana Dobrivojević Tomić (1975) is a senior research associate at the Institute of Contemporary History in Belgrade. She graduated at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Department of History of Yugoslavia. At the same department, she defended her master’s thesis Državna represija u doba diktature kralja Aleksandra 1929 – 1935, and then earned her doctorate with the topic Village and city. The transformation of the agrarian society of Serbia 1945 – 1955. She deals with the research of state repression in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the industrialization of socialist Yugoslavia, the standard of living of ordinary people, rural-urban migrations, the life of youth in socialist Yugoslavia and family planning. She was a visiting researcher at the Imre Kertes College in Jena, the Institute for the Study of the History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in Regensburg, and the Institute for the History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in Graz. She is the author of three monographs and over 70 articles published in national and international journals.