Stipe Kljaić

Dr. sc. Stipe Kljaić was born on December 17, 1982 in Šibenik. He attended high school in Šibenik from 1997 to 2001. In 2001, he enrolled in a bachelor's degree in single-subject history at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb, which he completed in the academic year 2006/07. with the second best average of that year on the topic "Salt and people on the early modern Adriatic". Winner of the Faculty Award "Franjo Marković" of the Faculty of Philosophy in 2007 for multi-disciplinary research into the history of Ravni Kotar. Since 2008, he has attended the postgraduate study "Modern and Contemporary Croatian History in the European and World Context" at the same faculty. From April to October 2009, he worked as an external associate (researcher) on the project "War crimes committed against Croatian citizens at the end and immediately after World War II" under the auspices of the Croatian State Attorney's Office and the Croatian State Archives. After that, he briefly collaborated on the project of the Ivo Pilar Institute "Lexicon of emigration and minorities". Since March 2010, he has been working as a researcher at the Croatian Institute of History. In 2015, he received his doctorate on the topic "Intellectuals and Croatian nationalism" with the mentor prof. Ive Banca. Since 2016, he has been working on the European project Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries, Courage Horizon 2020. His research interest is Croatian political and intellectual history of the 20th century.