Team Members
Principal investigator: Prof. Željko Dugac
Graduated from the Medical Faculty at the University of Rijeka in 1994. Awarded the academic title of Master of Science in Biology (biological anthropology) from the Faculty of Science at University of Zagreb, writing and defending a thesis on the history of folk medicine, in 1999. Attained the academic title of Doctor of Science in the field of biomedicine and health sciences from the Medical Faculty at the University of Zagreb, defending the dissertation on the history of public health in 2004. Became a research assistant at the Division for the History of Medicine at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1998, and a tenured scientific adviser at the Division for the History of Medicine at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2015. In 2010 he was elected to a teaching position as Associate Professor at the Centre for Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb.
Since 2004 he was the project manager of the project “Croatian medical heritage – development and achievement determinants between the 13th and 20th century” supported by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, and led the project “Public health and medicine in Croatia: identity and international cooperation in the 20th century”. Since 2010 he was a member of the project of the Croatian Institute of History, “Formation of Croatian cultural and social identity 1900-1990” (project manager Dr Suzana Leček). He collaborated on the project “Croatia in socialist Yugoslavia” (led by Prof. Tvrtko Jakovina) and on an international project related to the history of public health in interwar period titled “Interwar Health Network,” led by Dr Iris Borowy, the University of Rostock. He has been an associate of the Working Group on the History of Race and Eugenics (HRE) at the Oxford Brookes University and a consultant to the international interdisciplinary project “The History of Eugenics and East-Central Europe, 1900-1945,” also at the Oxford Brookes University.
He was awarded several scholarships for professional development and research abroad: the Rockefeller Archive Center Grant for Research (2000), Scholarship of the Swiss National Science Foundation for the research in the archives of the League of Nations in Geneva (2001), the University College of London – Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London (2001), Institut für Geschichte der Medizin and Universitäts Archiv, Vienna (2003), the Rockefeller Archive Center Grant for Research (2004), the University College of London – Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London (2008)
His areas of research have included the history of health and medicine, public health and social history in the first half of the 20th century, especially issues related to the history of health education and training, history of the public health system, international influences on public health (particularly the Rockefeller Foundation and the Health Organization of the League of Nations in the interwar period), and the medical history of everyday life. He has also researched the professionalization and institutionalization processes in medicine and science as well as the main leaders in this field, such as Dr Andrija Štampar. He has participated at domestic and international conferences and published numerous scientific articles and books, including three books on the public health and social history during the interwar period: Protiv bolesti i neznanja: Rockefellerova fondacija u međuratnoj Jugoslaviji [Against disease and ignorance: The Rockefeller Foundation in interwar Yugoslavia] (2005), Kako biti čist i zdrav: Zdravstveno prosvjećivanje u međuratnoj Hrvatskoj [How to be clean and healthy: Health education in interwar Croatia] (2010), and O sestrama, siromašnim i bolesnim: Slike socijalne i zdravstvene povijesti međuratnog Zagreba [On sisters, poor, and sick: Images of the social and health history of interwar-era Zagreb] (2015).
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Other team members
Prof. Zrinka Blažević
Graduated in history and Latin language and Roman literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1996, where she acquired an MRes in 2001 and a PhD in 2005, having written and defended a dissertation titled “Ilirski ideologem tijekom 17. stoljeća: upotrebe, funkcije i značenja.” She is a professor at the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, where she teaches early modern European and global history and contemporary historiographical theories to undergraduate, and historical anthrolopoly and historical imagology to graduate students. She has published four books (Pavao Ritter Vitezović, Croatia rediviva/Oživljena Hrvatska, Zagreb, 1998.; Vitezovićeva Hrvatska između stvarnosti i utopije, Zagreb, 2003.; Ilirizam prije ilirizma, Zagreb, 2008.; Prevođenje povijesti, Zagreb, 2014) and authored a number of articles in Croatian and international publications. She is primarily interested in the theory of history, intellectual and cultural history of the Early Modern period, especially in historiographical discourses and national-ideological concepts, historical imagology, historical anthropology, and gender history. She also translates Latin poetry and historiography into Croatian, and has published several translated books.
CROSBI link: http://beta.bib.irb.hr/pregled/znanstvenici/225746
Personal pages: https://ffzg.academia.edu/ZrinkaBlazevic, http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/pov/pov2/biografija.php?id=3
Dr Marijana Borić
Graduated from the Faculty of Science and Education at the University of Split in 1991, and was awarded the degree of professor of mathematics and physics. Since 1991 she has been employed at the Division for the History of Natural and Mathematical Sciences at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, where she became a research associate in 2013. In 1998 she was awarded a master of research in applied mathematics by the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb. In 2012 she obtained a PhD from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, having written and defended a dissertation Epistemological aspects of the mathematical analysis and synthesis in the work of Marin Getaldić, under the supervision of Prof. Žarko Dadić, full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
She has studied the work of prominent Croatian scientists who greatly contributed to the development of their social environment and to the Western European scholarship. She has studied the works of Faust Vrančić, particularly the making of Machinae novae in the context of development of the natural sciences and mathematics in the Renaissance period. She authored numerous research papers and essays in the history of exact sciences in Croatia. Her particular interest is the Renaissance science and the development of mathematical methods and concepts that facilitated the emergence of modern science. She collaborated on the project The history of natural and mathematical sciences in Croatia (1992-2004), in the framework of which he published numerous papers. She participated at many conferences and organized several of them. She collaborated on the realization of the exhibition Science in Croatia – natural sciences and their application; with the Lexicographical Institute “Miroslav Krleža” on the articles on mathematics and physics; with the National University Library in Zagreb on the exhibition Machina novae – 400 years later; with the Technical Museum in Zagreb and the Libraries of the City of Zagreb. She is an associate contributor to the Faust Vrančić Memorial Center and a member of the editorial board of the journal Čovjek i svemir; a member of the Croatian Mathematical Society; Department for natural sciences and mathematics of the Matica hrvatska; Croatian philosophical society; and the Electrotechnical Society in Zagreb.
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Dr Vedran Duančić
Graduated in history from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 2009. Enrolled to the MA program in Central European History at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, where he graduated in 2011. In 2011 he enrolled to the European University Institute in Florence, where he graduated and received the title of doctor in history and civilization by defending on the dissertation Creating National Space(s): Anthropogeography and Nation-Building in Interwar Yugoslavia, 1918-1941. He spent a part of the academic year 2013/2014 as an exchange student at the Humboldt University in Berlin, in 2017 was awarded a Herder Scholarship at the Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung in Marburg, and in 2020 was awarded the François André Michaux Fund Fellowship (Library Short-Term Resident Research Fellowship) at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
He co-organized three international conferences (in Florence, Budapest, and Zagreb) and presented at numerous international workshops and conferences.
His published papers “Geographical Narration of Interwar Yugoslavia (1918–1941): Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian Perspective, 1918 to the mid-1920s,” East Central Europe 43, no. 1–2 (2016): 118–214: “Znanstvena mreža u nastajanju? Kanali komunikacije kao integrativni faktor geografije u međuratnoj Jugoslaviji,” Historijski zbornik 69, no. 2 (2016): 455–470; “Nationalist Geographies in Interwar Yugoslavia: Manoeuvring Between National and Transnational Spaces,” European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire 25, no. 3–4 (2018): 588–611; “Learning About Politics Through Science: Popular Science in Early Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945–1950,” Historyka: Studia Metodologiczne 49, no. 1 (2019): 55–76; “Lysenko in Yugoslavia, 1945–1950s: How to de-Stalinize a Stalinist Science,” Journal of the History of Biology 53, no. 1 (2020): 159–194; “Prostorne perspektive i izazov ispreplitanja u povijesti znanosti” [Spatial perspective and the challenge of entanglement in the history of science and knowledge]. Radovi Zavoda za hrvatsku povijest 52, no. 1 (2020): 145–162; and his paper “Recent Trends in the History of Science in Croatia” is under review with Centaurus (accepted with minor revisions). In 2020, he also published a monograph Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia with Palgrave Macmillan.
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Personal page: eui.academia.edu/VedranDuancic
Dr Branka Grbavac
Graduated in history from the Center for Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb in 2002. She was awarded an MA in the early medieval history from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 2006. In 2010 she obtained a doctorate in the auxiliary sciences of history from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, having written and defended a dissertation Notariate on the Eastern adriatic Coast from the Second Half of the 12th to the End of the 14th Century, under the supervision of Prof. Mirjana Matijević Sokol.
Since 2002 she has been employed as a research assistant at the Division for the Historical Sciences at the Institute for the Historical and Social Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2006 she became a senior research assistant at the same institution. In 2008 she became an external collaborator at the Departments of History and Croatian Latinity at the Centre for Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb. Since 2013 she has been a research associate at the Division for Historical Sciences at the Institute for Historical and Social Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and since 2016 an external collaborator at the Department of History, at the Catholic University of Croatia.
She has participated in several research projects: in 2002-2006 she was a research assistant on the project Sources, studies and manuals for the Croatian history from the 7th to the 19th century, financed by the Croatian Ministry of Education, Science and Sports, with the topic Critical Editing of Sources. In 2004-2006 she was a researcher on the project Conex II, Geschäftsleben und Frauenrechte, financed by the Austrian Ministry of Science, with the topic Business and Women’s Rights. Between 2007 and 2013 she was a senior research assistant on the project Latin Sources, Studies and Manuals for Social and Economic History, financed by the Croatian Ministry of Education, Science and Sports, with the topic Critical Editing of Sources for Medieval and Early Modern Social and Economic History. Since 2015 she has been a research associate on the project Sources, Manuals and Studies for Croatian History from the Middle Ages to the End of the Long 19th Century, financed by the Croatian Science Foundation, with the topic Critical Editing of Sources for Medieval History.
She presented a paper “The professional formation of public notaries of Zadar and Dalmatia in the 13th and 14th centuries” at the International Medieval Congress Leeds: “Heresy and Orthodoxy,” held in Leeds, UK, on 13-16 July 2009; a paper “Royal Knights of Zadar in the Time of King Sigismund of Luxembourg” at the Internalional Congress Hof und Kanzlei Kaiser Sigismunds als politisches Zentrum und soziales System/The Court and Chancery of Emperor Sigismund as a Political Centre and as a Social System, held in Brno, Czech Republic, on 18-21 November 2015; and a paper (co-authored with Franjo Šanjek) “Hrvati u potrazi za znanjem: Znanstvena putovanja Hermana Dalmatina (oko 1105/10.—posl. 1154.)” [Croats in search of knowledge: The scholarly voyages of Herman Dalmatin (c. 1105/1110 –after 1154)] at the International Congress Putovanje u srednjovjekovnoj i renesansnoj Hrvatskoj u europskom kontekstu, held in Zagreb, Croatia, on 20 May 2016. She was awarded a grant to attend the XIX Congresso storico internazionale “I Magistri commacini. Mito e realtà del medioevo lombardo”, organized at the Università dell’Insubria and International Research Center for Local Histories and Cultural Diversities, Como and Varese, Italy, on 22-25 October 2008.
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Dr Bojan Marotti
Graduated philosophy and comparative literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 1982, after which he studied classical philology and general linguistics. Since 1984 he has been employed at the (former) Institute for the Philosophy of Science and Peace of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (now the Division for the Philosophy of Science at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts), where he deals with the philosophy of language, the theory of meaning, general and comparative linguistics, and the history of Croatian philosophy (particularly Franjo Marković and Kruno Krstić). The longstanding work (more than ten years) on the preparation of the manuscript of the dictionary Lexicon Latino-Illyricum by Pavao Ritter Vitezović resulted in the doctoral dissertation titled Značenje nadslovaka u rječniku Pavla Rittera Vitezovića »Lexicon Latino-Illyricum« (The meaning of the signs above the letters in the dictionary “Lexicon Latino-Illyricum” by Pavao Ritter Vitezović), written under the supervision of Prof. Radoslav Katičić, full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, which he defended in 2012.
In 2015 he was elected to the position of research associate. Between 1996 and 2006 he participated in several cycles in the project titled Philosophical Aspects of Science (the principal investigator was Prof. Ivan Supek, full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts), within which he dealt primarily with the relations between the science and language, and with different issues regarding the philosophy of language, especially the so-called “ordinary language philosophy” (or the “Oxford school”). For several years he gave various classes at the Department for Theatre at the Academy of Arts in Osijek, and currently teaches at the Libertas International University. He published two books (Značenje nadslovaka u Vitezovićevu Lexiconu, 2 vols., Zagreb, Artresor naklada, 2013; and Uvod u Vitezovićev Lexicon Latino-Illyricum, Zagreb, Artresor naklada, 2014) and several scientific papers. He translates from several languages (English, Italian, German, Latin, and Greek), and was the editor of many books in different fields. He was the secretary of the editorial board of the journal Encyclopaedia moderna, and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Glasnik Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti. In 2016, he was awarded the Award of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts for the highest scientific and artistic achievement in the Republic of Croatia in 2015, in the field of philological sciences.
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Consultants
Prof. Žarko Dadić, full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Director of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Dr Marius Turda
Reader in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine, School of History, Philosophy and Culture, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University
Personal page: www.brookes.ac.uk/hpc/staff-and-students/academic-staff/?uid=p0032180&op=full
Dr Tatjana Bukiljaš
Associate Director – Teaching, Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, University of Auckland
Personal page: https://informedfutures.org/staff/tatjana-buklijas/