Djokić received his Ph.D. from UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and completed his postdoctoral specialisation at the Harriman Institute of New York's Columbia University, before becoming Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Goldsmiths, University of London and Guest Professor in South-East European History at Humboldt University.

[3] He is the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of the Balkans at Goldsmiths, co-founder of Rethinking Modern Europe at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

In 2017, he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

Djokić was then Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Director of the Center for Balkan Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

[8] Djokić's latest book A Concise History of Serbia was published in January 2023 by Cambridge University Press.