[5][2] She enrolled into University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy History program in 1981 where she graduated in 1987, earned her master's degree in 1992 and PhD in 2002.

[2] Her educational and professional maturation and development happened in the context of deep socioeconomic crisis and epochal political changes of the breakup of Yugoslavia and Yugoslav Wars.

[6] Between 1988 and 1996, Stojanović worked at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia after which she moved to the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in 1996 where she became docent in 2001 and full time professor in 2016.

[8] Slobodan Antonić criticised her scientific conclusions about the role of the Serbian quisling forces in The Holocaust in German-occupied Serbia and considered her work on the subject to be meet the criteria of historical revisionism.

[9] The criticism of Stojanović's and Nikola Samardžić work resulted in initiation of the "petition against persecution and calls for the lynching of critical historians" by the "pro-regime media, government officials and a group of ultra-right-wing intellectuals" which was signed by over 520 historians, representatives of all academic professions, artists and cultural workers from Serbia, other countries in the region, Europe and the world.