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Byford, Jovan (2023). Rescuing the ‘Sava victims’ from oblivion and denial: History and memory of the last Ustasha crime in Sisak (Spasavanje savskih žrtava od zaborava i negiranja: istorija i sećanje na poslednje ustaške zločine u Sisku). Tragovi : časopis za srpske i hrvatske teme, 6(2) pp. 7–53.

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Byford, Jovan (2021). [Book review] Jelena Đureinović: The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia. Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution. Comparative Southeast European Studies, 69(1) pp. 167–169.

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Byford, Jovan (2021). Conspiracy Theories. In: Goldberg, Sol; Ury, Scott and Weiser, Kalman eds. Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism. Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 79–92.

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Byford, Jovan (2021). The Political Instrumentalization of a Site of the Holocaust: Contested Memories of the Semlin Camp in Belgrade. In: Ognjenovic, Gorana and Jozelic, Jasna eds. Nationalization and Politicization of History in Former Yugoslavia. Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 95–120.

Byford, Jovan (2020). Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia: Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans. War, Culture and Society. Bloomsbury Academic.

Byford, Jovan (2019). The Emotional and Political Power of Images of Suffering: Discursive Psychology and the Study of Visual Rhetoric. In: Gibson, Stephen ed. Discourse, Peace and Conflict: Discursive Psychology Perspectives. Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer, pp. 285–302.

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Byford, Jovan (2018). Put do “srpskog Yad Vashema”: Manipulacije povijesti logora Sajmište i Jasenovac [The Road to a ‘Serbian Yad Vashem’: Manipulation of the history of Sajmište and Jasenovac]. In: Benčić, Andriana; Odak, Stipe and Lucić, Danijela eds. Jasenovac: manipulacije, kontroverze i povijesni revizionizam [Jasenovac: Manipulations, Controversies and Historical Revisionism]. Jasenovac: Javna ustanova Spomen područje Jasenovac, pp. 87–110.

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Byford, Jovan (2018). Picturing Jasenovac: Atrocity Photography Between Evidence and Propaganda. In: Frubis, Hildegard; Oberle, Clara and Pufelska, Agnieszka eds. Fotografien aus den Lagern des NS-Regimes: Beweissicherung und ästhetische Praxis. Schriften des Centrums für jüdische Studien. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, pp. 227–248.

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Byford, J and Tileagă, C (2017). Accounts of a troubled past: Psychology, history, and texts of experience. Qualitative Psychology, 4(1) pp. 101–117.

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Tileagă, C. and Byford, J. (2017). Qualitative psychology and the archive: Introduction to the special section. Qualitative Psychology, 4(1) pp. 55–57.

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Byford, Jovan and Tileagă, Cristian (2014). Social psychology, history, and the study of the Holocaust: the perils of interdisciplinary “borrowing”. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 20(4) pp. 349–364.

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Byford, Jovan (2014). Remembering Jasenovac: survivor testimonies and the cultural dimension of bearing witness. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 28(1) pp. 58–84.

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Byford, Jovan (2014). Beyond belief: the social psychology of conspiracy theories and the study of ideology. In: Antaki, Charles and Condor, Susan eds. Rhetoric, Ideology and Social Psychology: Essays in Honour of Michael Billig. Explorations in Social Psychology. London: Routledge, pp. 83–94.

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Tileagă, Cristian and Byford, Jovan eds. (2014). Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Byford, Jovan (2013). Between marginalisation and instrumentalization: Holocaust memory in Serbia since the late 1980s. In: Himka, John-Paul and Michlic, Joanna Beata eds. Bringing the Dark Past to Light: the Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 516–548.

Byford, Jovan (2013). Testimony. In: Keightley, Emily and Pickering, Michael eds. Research Methods for Memory Studies. Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 200–214.

Byford, Jovan (2012). Négocier un lieu dans la mémoire collective pour la destruction des Juifs de Serbie : le cas du Judenlager Semlin [Negotiating a place for the destruction of Jews in Serbian public memory: the case of the Semlin Judenlager]. In: Bertinchamps, Philippe ed. Staro Sajmište, un camp de concentration. Paris: Non Lieu, pp. 169–201.

Byford, Jovan (2011). Staro sajmište: Mesto sećanja, zaborava i sporenja [Staro Sajmište: A site remembered, forgotten, contested]. Belgrade: Beogradski centar za ljudska prava.

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Byford, Jovan (2011). Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović: 'Lackey of the Germans' or a 'Victim of Fascism'? In: Ramet, Sabrina P. and Listhaug, Ola eds. Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 128–154.

Byford, Jovan (2011). The collaborationist administration and the treatment of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Serbia. In: Ramet, Sabrina P. and Listhaug, Ola eds. Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109–127.

Byford, Jovan (2011). Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Byford, Jovan (2011). The willing bystanders: Dimitrije Ljotic, ‘Shield Collaboration’ and the destruction of Serbia’s Jews. In: Haynes, Rebecca and Rady, Martyn eds. In the Shadow of Hitler: Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe. London, U.K.: I.B. Tauris.

Byford, Jovan (2011). Η «ημιαναγνώριση» του Ολοκαυτώματος: Αναζητώντας μια θέση στη δημόσια μνήμη της Σερβίας για την εξόντωση των Εβραίων [‘Half-Recognizing’ the Holocaust: Remembrance of the Semlin camp in Belgrade since the 1980s]. In: Αντωνίου, Γιώργος; Δορδανάς, Στράτος; Ζάϊκος, Νίκος and Μαραντζίδης, Νίκος eds. Το ολοκαύτωμα στα Βαλκάνια [Holocaust in the Balkans]. Thessalonika: Epikentro, pp. 155–206.

Byford, Jovan (2010). “Shortly afterwards, we heard the sound of the gas van”: survivor testimony and the writing of history in socialist Yugoslavia. History and Memory, 22(1) pp. 5–47.

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Byford, Jovan (2008). Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović. Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press.

Byford, Jovan (2007). When I say 'the Holocaust', I mean 'Jasenovac': Remembrace of the Holocaust in contemporary Serbia. East European Jewish Affairs, 37(1) pp. 51–74.

Byford, Jovan (2006). Distinguishing ‘Anti-Judaism’ from ‘Antisemitism’: Recent Championing of Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović. Religion, State and Society, 34(1) pp. 7–31.

Byford, Jovan (2006). Teorija zavere: Srbija protiv 'novog svetskog poretka' [Conspiracy theory: Serbia vs. the New World Order]. Belgrade, Serbia: Beogradski centar za ljudska prava.

Byford, Jovan (2006). 'Serbs never hated the Jews': the denial of antisemitism in Serbian Orthodox Christian culture. Patterns of Prejudice, 40(2) pp. 159–180.

Byford, Jovan (2005). Potiskivanje i poricanje antisemitizma: Secanje na vladiku Nikolaja Velimirovica u savremenoj srpskoj pravoslavnoj kulturi [Repression and denial of antisemitism: memory of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic in contemporary Serbian Orthodox culture]. Ogledi, 6. Belgrade, Serbia: HCHRS.

Byford, Jovan (2004). From "Traitor" to "Saint": Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović in Serbian Public Memory. Analysis of Current Trends In Antisemitism, 22 pp. 1–41.

Byford, J. (2002). Christian Right-Wing Organizations and the Spreading of Anti-Semitic Prejudice in Post-Milosevic Serbia: The Case of the Dignity Patriotic Movement. East European Jewish Affairs, 32(2) pp. 43–60.

Byford, Jovan (2002). Anchoring and objectifying 'neocortical warfare': re-presentation of a biological metaphor in Serbian conspiracy literature. Papers on Social Representations, 11(3) 3.1-3.14.

Byford, J. and Billig, M. (2001). The emergence of antisemitic conspiracy theories in Yugoslavia during the war with NATO. Patterns of Prejudice, 35(4) pp. 50–63.