[1] Since February 2023, he has been Visiting Full Professor of Social Anthropology at the PPGAS, Federal University of the North Rio Grande in Natal (Brazil).

Early publications of Aleksandar Bošković were influenced by the interest in the study of myth and religion, especially through the perspectives offered by Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) and Mircea Eliade (1907–1986).

He edited the Dictionary of Deities and Mythic Beings of the World (in Serbo-Croatian; co-edited with Milan Vukomanović and Zoran Jovanović), a single-volume reference work with 14 contributors, covering Non-classical Mythology.

[14] William Robertson Smith remained part of his interest, present in his courses on myth and religion, culminating in the biography, published by the Berghahn Books.

In St. Andrews, Aleksandar Bošković was supervised by Ladislav Holy (1933–1997), who proved to be a major influence, with his version of methodological individualism.

[22] Aleksandar Bošković spent some years in the so-called "pro-democracy" journalism in Yugoslavia (1983–1990), and briefly worked as foreign politics editor and member of the editorial board of the Belgrade weekly magazine Student (1984/1985).

In 2006, Aleksandar Bošković briefly worked as a Program Director (in charge of transitional justice)[27] in the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade.

Following his interest in psychoanalysis,[32] Bošković used Christopher Bollas'[33] concept of the "fascist state of mind" to elaborate on the political and social situation in Serbia, in an essay published in the Belgrade weekly Novi magazin, on 15 June 2017.

[35] When considering wider implications of the persuasiveness of nationalist-inspired thinking and ideas, Aleksandar Bošković organized a round table debate dedicated to Benedict Anderson (1936–2015), at the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade.

[40][41] Bošković taught his first academic course at the University of St Andrews in the Martinmas Term of 1994 ("Mesoamerican Pre-Columbian Civilisations", at the Honours' level).

This department provided a brilliant academic setting, with colleagues like Chris de Wet, Robin Palmer, Penny Bernard, among others.

[52] Between 2003 and 2019 Bošković worked at the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade, where he was (May 2009- February 2017) Head of the Center for Political Studies and Public Opinion Research.

However, better known in Serbo-Croatian (and in the former Yugoslav region) is his book Kratak uvod u antropologiju [A Brief Introduction to Anthropology], published in late 2010 by the Jesenski i Turk in Zagreb (Croatia).

[62] As a result of his long collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology,[63] Aleksandar Bošković also co-edited a volume on the development of anthropologies/ ethnologies in Southeastern Europe between 1945 and 1991, with Chris Hann,[64] in which he also contributed a Postscript.

[67] The interest in rationality also resulted in the process of helping Suzana Ignjatović organize a Symposium about Individualism[68] at the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade, on 20 October 2017.

The Symposium resulted in the edited volume,[69] with international contributors including Walter Block, Veselin Vukotić,[70] and Patrick Laviolette.

[71] In March and April 2022, Bošković taught a course as visiting professor in the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

In recent years, he also spoke about topics such as rationality (both at the IUAES Congress in Manchester in 2013, and at the Inter-Congress in Chiba, Japan in 2014), identity (at the meeting of the Croatian Ethnological Society in Zagreb in 2013), Giambattista Vico (at the ASA Decennial Conference in Edinburgh, 2014), ethnicity (in the Masters' seminar at the University of Leipzig, 2014) and anthropology in Belgrade (at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Wilhelms University of Münster (Germany),[75] in 2014).

In late April 2017, Bošković lectured at the Department of Social Anthropology at the Panteion University in Athens, as part of the ERASMUS exchange.

Together with Professor Günther Schlee, Bošković organized a Workshop commemorating 75th anniversary of the African Political Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 10–11 September 2015.

[78] In the early 2018, following the invitation of his colleague, anthropologist and psychotherapist Salma Siddique, he spent six weeks as a visiting researcher at the University of Aberdeen.

[79] During this period, Bošković gave two talks about The Meaning of Maya Myths (unrelated to the 1989 article), at King's College, Aberdeen and at the University of Edinburgh,[80] as well as a lecture on anthropology and psychoanalysis, in the school of education.

In the early June, he gave a talk on Classic Maya myths and politics at the 12th Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.