• PhD, Duke University, 2013 
• MA, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2006

• 2024 Recognizing Excellence Program Award, Office of the Provost for Faculty Affairs, UB
• 2024 OVPRED/HI Research Funding in the Arts & Humanities
• 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, for Queer and Feminist Yugoslav Diaspora: Art of Resistance Beyond Nationhood (in progress)
• 2024 Getty Residential Scholar
• 2023 Gender Institute, Faculty Research Grant, UB
  
• 2023: HI Fund for Conferences & Symposia, UB, for Queer and Feminist Yugoslav Diaspora: Art, Film, and Activism, April 24-27, 2023
  
• 2023 OIE Global Research Scholar in Residence Grant, UB
• 2018 Fellowship at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany
• 2017 Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, Humanities Institute, UB
  
• 2015 OVPRED/HI Seed Money in the Arts and Humanities fund, UB
  

• "I Am Jugoslovenka!” Feminist Performance Politics During & After Yugoslav Socialism (Manchester University Press, 2022) 
  Winner of the 2023 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize
• See Tumbas receives prestigious Warhol Grant, Jelavich Book Prize (UBNow)
• Selected Reviews, "I am Jugoslovenka"
  Dragana Obradović, Slavic Review (2024)
  Dorothé Orczyk, ARTMargins ( 2024)
  Angelique Szymanek, CAA Reviews (2023)
  Miranda Jakiša, Comparative Southeast European Studies (2023)
  Amy Bryzgel, Art Journal 81, no. 4 (2022)
   Jana Dolečki, Rezens (2022)
  Erin Walter, University at Glasgow (2022)
  Jon Blackwood, Art Monthly (2022)
• Queer and Feminist Yugoslav Diaspora: Art of Resistance Beyond Nationhood (in progress)
  Winner of the 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and Getty Residential Scholar Grant
• Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Case Studies in Hauntology. Co-edited with Dr. Jon Blackwood. Forthcoming, Routledge, Research in Art History series. 
• Editor and Translator, What Remains: Fragments of a Continuous Past, Artist Book, Marika Schmiedt, Vienna: ARTBRUT, 2014
• Editor and Translator, “Thoughts Are Free” Anxiety is Reality for Roma in Europe, Artist Book, Marika Schmiedt, Vienna: ARTBRUT, 2013
• English Language Editor, ARTPOOL - The Experimental Art Archive of East-Central Europe History of an active archive for producing, networking, curating, and researching art since 1970, by György Galántai and Julia Klaniczay, Budapest: Artpool, Erste Foundation, and National Cultural Fund Hungary, 2013

• “Dunja Blažević, The Activist of the Avant-Garde (1982, Yugoslavia): ‘About the author’ and ‘Context,’” in Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, eds., Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century (Central European University Press, 2024): 953-963.
• “Big Time Sensuality: Tanja Ostojić’s Immersive Feminism,” in Tanja Ostojić: Women’s Health, Body Politics, Labour, Sexuality, Wellbeing, Menopause, Ageing and Agency (Contemporary Art Gallery, Subotica, Serbia, October 2024): Translated into: Serbian and Hungarian. Full catalogue here: http://www.seecult.org/sites/default/files/attachments/tanja-ostojic-sgs_katalog.pdf
• “Motherhood, Carnal Lust, and Spellbinding Redemption in Šejla Kamerić’s Feminist Self-Portraits.” In Šejla Kamerić: EYE (Mother is a Bitch) (Berlin: DISTANZ Verlag GmbH, 2023), 7-11: https://www.distanz.de/en/sejla-kameric/mother-is-a-bitch
• "Formidable Monstrosity: Feminist Art in the Yugoslav Diaspora Today," in Vogue Adria, no. 1 (2024) 
•  "The Complicated Position of Ethnic Roma in Art and Culture Today," in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 86, no. 1 (2023), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1515/ZKG-2023-1003 
  
• “The Return of Jugoslovenka: An Unrequited Love Affair,” in Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies (Fall 2020), 1-34.
• “Jasmila Zbanic: Quo Vadis, Aida?,” in Art Monthly no. 442 (December 2020 - January 2021), 38-39.  
• “Solo and Ensemble,” in Art in America vol. 108, Issue 3 (March 2020): 60-65
•  Guest Editor, ArtLeaks Gazette #5: Patriarchy Over & Out. Discourse Made Manifest (April 2019): https://art-leaks.org/artleaks-gazette/
  
• "We Protest Artvoice: A Platform for Carl Paladino's Hateful Speech," co-authored with Divya Victor, Joshua Lam, and Mickey Harmon, in ArtLeaks Gazette #5: Patriarchy Over & Out. Discourse Made Manifest (April 2019): 44-46. https://art-leaks.org/artleaks-gazette/
  
• “Yugonostalgia,” Feature essay in Art Monthly no. 425 (April 2019): 6-10:  https://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/issue/april-2019
• “Classroom in Crisis: Global Perspectives,” in Making Another World Possible - 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects (Routledge, 2019), 315-317.
•  "Eine Frage der Entscheidung: Politische Performance Kunst im Sozialistischen Jugolslawien," in Adam Czirak (ed.), Aktionskunst jenseits des Eisernen Vorhangs Künstlerische Kritik in Zenten ploitischer Repression (transcript-Verlag, 2019): 199-299.
  
• “Popular Demand: Yugoslav Socialist Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art,” in Art in America (December 2018): https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/popular-demand-yugoslav-socialist-architecture-museum-modern-art/
• “Countering Persecution, Misconceptions, and Nationalism: Roma Identity and Contemporary Activist Art,” In Aneta Stojnic, Christel Stalpaert and Marina Grzinic, eds.,This Body is in Danger: Shift-shaping CorpoRealities in Contemporary Performing Arts (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan: 2018), 103-127.
• “Decision as Art: Performance in the Balkans.” In Katalin Cseh-Varge and Adam Czirak, eds., Performing Arts in the Second Public Sphere (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan: 2018): 184-201.
• “SHOOT THE WOMEN FIRST! Under the Pink of Navine G. Khan-Dossos’s Targets,” Feature Essay in ASAP Journal: The Open-Access Platform of ASAP/Journal (John Hopkins University Press): July 2018.
  
• “The Ectoplasmic Resistance of Queer: Metric Mysticism, Libidinal Art, and How to Think Beyond The Internet. A Conversation with Zach Blas.” Feature Interview in ASAP Journal: The Open-Access Platform of ASAP/Journal (John Hopkins University Press): Feb 2018.
• “Wanderlust, or How to Wander in and out of the Dark History of the Now: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017.” Feature Essay in ASAP Journal: The Open-Access Platform of ASAP/Journal (John Hopkins University Press) (December 2017)
• “‘The Criticality of activism needs to be applied to art in order to reveal the perpetuation of false narratives': A Conversation with Jemima Wyman,” In Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 92, vol. 31, no. 2: (September 2016), 195-203.
• “Selma Selman,” monographic essay for artist book and catalogue, Selma Selman: Visual Artist, edited by Štefan Simončič (Slovenia, EPEKA Scientific and Research Association: 2016), 6-24.
• “Endre Tót and Conceptual Art, or the TÓTal JOY of Nothing.” In Art and Documentation/Sztuka i Dokumentacja, no. 10 (Spring 2014): 31-37.
• “International Hungary! György Galántai's Networking Strategies." In Artists Networks in Eastern Europe and Latin America, Special Issue co-edited by Cristina Freire and Klara Kemp-Welch, ArtMargins 1, no. 2 (June-October 2012): 87-115.

• Guest, "I Am Jugoslovanka (Podcast Ep. 53)".  Remembering Yugoslavia. Podcast audio, February 21, 2022.  https://rememberingyugoslavia.com/podcast-jugoslovenka/
• Invited Guest, Selma Selman's Art in Contexts: Boshko Boskovic, Jasmina Tumbas and Amila Ramovic, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcnayjrbFtQ
• Guest lecture for Visual Cultures Now Speaker Series: Sexes, Genders, Genres at the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, November 2020: “The Feminist Legacy of Socialist Yugoslavia: Jugoslovenka and her Performance Politics,” see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN4nHnZ_jec

• "Selma Selman: I exist," Dreamland Art Gallery, Buffalo (2016). The Exhibition travelled to 12-14 Contemporary gallery, Vienna, Austria.  
• “Black in Time: A Historical Celebration of Buffalo's African American LGBTQ Bar and Party Scene,” co-curated with Ana Grujić in collaboration with the Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project. Co-sponsored by the Visual Studies Program at UB and the UB Gender Institute, at Sweets Lounge, Buffalo.
• “Vie Nemate Pojma. You have No Idea.” (April 2015) Performance by Selma Selman. Dreamland Art Gallery, Buffalo.

• Co-Chair, European Postwar and Contemporary Art Forum (EPCAF)
• Executive Committee, UB Gender Institute
• Board of Directors, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center (2017-2020)
• Contributing Editor, ASAP Journal: The Open-Access Platform of ASAP/Journal (John Hopkins University Press)
• Freelance assistant editor and translator for the activist art and publishing collective ArtLeaks
• Founding Member, Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project
• Co-founder, THE PUBLIC SCHOOL Durham
• HI Queer Studies Research Workshop
• Co-founder, UB Sanctuary Campus movement

Before moving to Buffalo, Prof. Tumbas co-founded THE PUBLIC SCHOOL Durham in 2010, an independently operated learning community open to the public, where she taught a number of classes on East European film, queer cinema and contemporary art.