Aleksandar Rastović

Aleksandar Rastović (; born 20 January 1969) is a Serbian historian, university professor and politician. In academia, he specializes in the relations between Britain and Serbia from the 19th to early 20th centuries.

Early life and education Rastović was born on 20 January 1969 in Zemun, Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Zemun Gymnasium and the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade. He obtained his master's degree in 1999 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade on the subject Great Britain and Serbia 1878-1889. He defended his PhD dissertation on the subject Great Britain and Serbia 1903-1914 in 2003 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.

Academic career From 1994 to 2008, he worked at the Institute of History Belgrade. He was engaged in the project of the Institute of History titled Between European Models and Stereotypes: Serbian National Integration 1804-1918 and is one of the authors of the Serbian Biographical Dictionary and the Serbian Encyclopedia. He was the president of the board of directors of the National Museum in Užice and a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade.

Selected works

, Belgrade, 2000. , Belgrade, 2005. , I–II, Belgrade and Mitrovica, 2007–2008. , Belgrade, 2011. , Belgrade, 2015. , Belgrade, 2015. , Momčilo Jerotić. Belgrade, 2017. . Edited by A. Rastović, B. Katić Miljković,, B. Stojić, J. Blažić Pejić, Belgrade, 2017. , Vol. 5. Edited by A. Rastović, I. Krstić Mistridželović, R. Samardžić, Belgrade, 2019. 1–5. Milorad Ekmečić; edited by P. V. Krestić. A. Rastović, Novi Sad, 2021. . A. Rastović, M. Roter Blagojević, I. Borozan, Novi Sad and Belgrade, 2022. , Belgrade, 2023. Milan Đ. Milićević, [Diary IV, 1 April 1882 – 31 December 1891]. Edited by A. Rastović, Belgrade, 2024.