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• Military Revolution in the Early Modern Period (Lecturer in charge)

Education:

22.10.1993 - Ph.D. in History, University of Zagreb. Dissertation: "Vojni komuniteti - središta građanstva u Hrvatskoj krajini. Povlašteni krajiški gradovi Bjelovar, Senj i Petrinja od 1787. do 1872. godine" [Military Communities - Civil Centers of the Croatian Frontier. The Privileged Towns Bjelovar, Senj and Petrinja from 1787 to 1872]

1988-89 - Visiting graduate student, University of Zagreb

31.08.1988 - Doctoraal (M.A.) in History, Utrecht University. Thesis: "De grens van de loyaliteit. De Kroatisch-Slawonische Militaire grens van 1740 tot 1848" [The Boundary of Loyalty. The Croatian-Slavonian Military Frontier from 1740 to 1848]

1986-87 - Visiting undergraduate student, University of Zagreb

11.11.1983 - Propedeuse in History, University of Amsterdam

03.06.1982 - VWO, Het Baarnsch Lyceum

Current Position:

13.04.2011              Scientific Advisor

02.11.2006              Associate Professor of Croatian History

17.06.2002              Senior Scientific Associate

19.09.1998              Research Associate

01.12.1994              Senior Research Assistant

18.11.1991              Ph.D. researcher

01.05.1991              Employment at the Croatian Institute of History

Research:

2020-           Researcher: "Mapping the Parliamentary Elections 1848 - 1918 in Croatia" (HRZZ IP-2019-04-5148 MAPPAR)

2015-19        Project Manager "Military Life and Warrior Images in Croatian Borderlands from the 16th Century until 1918" (HRZZ IP-2014-09 3675 MLWICB)

2011-16        Member of the Steering Committee of the European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net) (HRZZ 09-RNP-008)

2007-13        Project Manager: "The Military Frontier: Socio-Cultural Integrative Processes and National Identity" (019-0190611-0596); Programme Manager: "The Divided Croatian Kingdom in a European Context".

2002-06        Project Manager: "The Croatian Diet" (0019022)

1996-02        Project Manager: "Privileged Towns of the Frontier" (00190103)

1991-96        Researcher: "The Military Frontier: Sources and Studies" (6-02-100)

Teaching:

          Graduate seminars since 2006:

"The American War of Independance in British Newspapers", "English Newspapers, Public Opinion and political Views on the War of Austrian Succession", "We are the State: the reigns of Peter I., Louis XIV. and Leopold I.", "Crime and Justice in the Military Frontier", Croatian Studies Center, University of Zagreb.

          Undergraduate lecture courses from 1997 until 2010:

"Early Modern History", "Austrian History", "Nineteenth Century History", Croatian Studies Center, University of Zagreb. "History of the Netherlands I, II", Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.

          Undergraduate seminars since 1997:

"Colonial Expansion and the Europeanisation of the World", "Origins and Golden Age of the Dutch Republic", "Witch Hunts", "The English Restoration", "Queen Elisabeth I", "The Military Revolution in the Early Modern Period", "Emperor Joseph II", "The French Revolution", "The Jacobite Risings", "American War of Independance", "Cardinal Richelieu", "King Charles II", "Queen Maria Theresa", "Thomas Jefferson", "Chancellor Metternich", "The Dutch Revolt", "The Austro-Turkish Wars", "The English Civil War", "Early Modern Everyday Life", "Austro-Prussian Antagonism during the 19th Century", "The First Austrian Republic", "Ancien Regime", Croatian Studies Center, University of Zagreb.

          Graduate advising:

Major advisor, continuing: Filip Hren, Ph.D. candidate (since 2018) at the Catholic University of Croatia; Vladimir Brnardić, Ph.D. candidate (since 2012) at the Faculty for Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb. Completed: Juraj Balić, Ph.D. 2019; Vedran Klaužer, Ph.D. 2014, both at the Faculty for Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb.

Committee member, completed: Ivana Jukić, Ph.D. 2009; Ivana Horbec, Ph.D. 2009; Milan Vrbanus, Ph.D. 2006; Robert Skenderović, Ph.D. 2005; Ivana Jukić, M.A. 2005; Darko Vitek, Ph.D. 2004, all at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.

Publications:

          Books:

Memoari baruna Franje Trencka [The Memoirs of Baron Francis Trenck], Slavonski Brod, 2015

Pa to su samo Hrvati! Građa za povijest kantonske reorganizacije Vojne krajine 1787. godine [They are just Croats! Sources for the History of the Cantonal Reorganization of the Military Frontier in 1787], Zagreb, 2011.

Hrvatska na tajnim zemljovidima 18.-19. st., Gradiška pukovnija [Croatia on Secret Maps of the 18th and 19th Century, The Gradiska Regiment], Alexander Buczynski, Mirko Valentić and Milan Kruhek (eds.), Zagreb, 1999.

Gradovi Vojne krajine [Towns of the Military Frontier], vol. 1-2, Zagreb, 1997.

          Articles and bookchapters:

"Kartierung und Beschreibung der kroatisch-slawonischen Militärgrenze im ausgehenden 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert", in: Reinhard Johler, Josef Wolf (ed.), Beschreiben und Vermessen. Raumwissen in der östlichen Habsburgermonarchie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 2020., pp 391-426.

"Vojna krajina pukovnijskog tipa" [The Military Frontier Regimental System], in: Spomenka Težak (ed.), Povratak u Vojnu krajinu [The Military Frontier Revisited], catalogue, Varaždin, 2019, pp 19-28.

"Hrvatske granice austrijsko-ruskoga prijateljstva: car Josip II., carica Katarina II. i posljednji protuosmanski rat", [The Croatian Boundaries of Austro-Russian Friendship: Emperor Joseph II, Empress Catherine II and the Last Turkish War], in: Iva Sudec Andreis (ed), Katarina Velika carica svih Rusa: iz Državnog muzeja Ermitaž [Catherine the Great Empress of All Russians: From the State Hermitage Museum], catalogue, Zagreb, 2018, pp 75-91.

"Trendovi u historiografiji o Vojnoj krajini u Hrvatskoj poslije 1959. godine" [Trends in Historiography relevant to the Croatian Military Frontier after 1959], in: Zbornik Franz Vaniček, Stanko Andrić, Robert Skenderović (ed), Slavonski Brod, 2016.

"Ad fontes historiae. Trendovi u historiografiji o Vojnoj krajini u Hrvatskoj i izgledi za budućnost" [Trends in Historiography relevant to the Croatian Military Frontier and Research Possibilities for the Future], in: Pal Fodor and Dinko Šokčević (ed), Prekretnice u suživotu Hrvata i Mađara. Ustanove, društvo, gospodarstvo i kultura, [Turning-points in the Coexistence of Croats and Magyars. Institutions, Society, Economy and Culture], Budapest, 2015, pp 589-599. (Hungarian translation pp 529-539).

"Vojska" [The Army], in: Lovorka Čoralić (ed), U potrazi za mirom i blagostanjem. Hrvatske zemlje u 18. stoljeću [In Search of Peace and Prosperity. Croatian Lands during the Eighteenth Century], vol. 5., Zagreb, 2013, pp 149-168 (co-written with Lovorka Čoralić).

"Tinjajući krajiški patriotizam i opsada Zadra 1813. godine" [Smouldering Grenzer Patriotism and the Siege of Zadar 1813], Povijesni prilozi, vol. 38, Zagreb, 2010, pp 235-282.

"Le brasier latent du patriotisme et le siege de Zadar en 1813", in: Franjo Šanjek (ed.), Les Croates et les Provinces Illyriennes (1809-1813) / Hrvati i Ilirske pokrajine (1809.-1813.), Zagreb, 2010, pp 303-352.

"Barun Trenk (1711.-1749.). Legenda i zbilja" [Baron Trenck (1711-1749). Legend and reality], in: Stanko Andrić (ed.), Slavonija, Srijem i Baranja [Slavonia, Syrmia and Baranya]. Zagreb, 2009, pp 230-242.

"Nizozemska Multikultura" [Dutch Multiculture], Hrvatska revija, vol. VII, no. 3, Zagreb, 2007.

"Freiheitsvorstellungen an der kroatischen Militärgrenze", in: Georg Schmidt (ed.), Kollektive Freiheitsvorstellungen im frühzeitlichen Europa, Jena, 2006, pp 249-263.

"Das kroatische Vereinswesen 1848-1918", in: Helmut Rumpler, Peter Urbanitsch (eds.), Die Habsburgermonarchie. Die politische Öffentlichkeit, vol. VIII/1, Vienna, 2006, pp 1273-1299 (co-written with Stjepan Matković).

"Vojna krajina u 18. stoljeću [The Military Frontier during the Eighteenth Century]", in: Mirko Valentić, Lovorka Ćoralić (eds.), Pregled povijesti hrvatskog naroda, [A Survey of the History of the Croatian People], vol. 2, Zagreb, 2005, pp 274-287.

"ECTS - Europski sustav prijenosa vrijednosti" [ECTS - European Credit Transfer System], Europski sustav prijenosa vrijednosti (ECTS) [European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)], Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i športa, Zagreb, 2005, pp 7-15.

"Zajedno na granici između dvaju velikih carstava (16.-18. st.)", [Together on the Border between Two Great Empires], in: Milan Kruhek (ed.), Hrvatsko-mađarski odnosi 1102.-1918. [Croatian-Hungarian Relations, 1102-1918], Zagreb, 2004, pp 125-133.

"Hrvatske granice i Vojna krajina [Croatian Borders and the Military Frontier]", in: Ivan Supičić (ed.), Hrvatska i Europa: kultura, znanost i umjetnost. Barok i prosvjetiteljstvo [Croatia and Europe: Culture, Science and Art. Baroque and Enlightenment], vol. 3, Zagreb, 2003, pp 43-60.

"Nizozemski ustanak i nastanak Republike Sedam Ujedinjenih Pokrajina", [The Dutch Revolt and the Origin of the Republic of Seven United Provinces], in: Alexander Buczynski, Milan Kruhek and Stjepan Matković (eds.), Hereditas rervm croaticarvm ad honorem Mirko Valentić, Zagreb, 2003, pp 416-422.

"Hrvatska i Ugarska u sastavu Habsburške Monarhije", [Croatia and Hungary within the Habsburg Monarchy], in: Kolomanov put [Koloman's Way], Zagreb, 2002, pp 112-137.

"Die Militärgrenze als habsburgisches Erbe", in: Historicum, vol. 3, Wien, 2002, pp 21-26. (co-written with Stjepan Matković).

"Bojnik Vakanovich u vrijeme koalicijskih ratova protiv Francuske" [Major Vakanovich during the Coalition Wars against France], Petrinjski zbornik, vol. 4., Petrinja, 2001, pp 123-138.

"Trojna zapovjedna podređenost Vojne krajine 1848. godine" [The Triple Military Subordination of the Military Frontier in 1848], in: Mirko Valentić (ed.), Hrvatska 1848. i 1849. [Croatia in 1848 and 1849], Zagreb, 2001, pp 123-131.

"The Development of Sericulture and the Production of Silk in Croatia", Povijesni prilozi, vol. 21, Zagreb, 2001, pp. 171-181.

"Der dalmatinische Landtag", in: Helmut Rumpler, Peter Urbanitsch (ed.), Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918. Verfassung und Parlamentarismus, vol. VII, Beč, 2000, pp 1951-1989.

"Korespondencija Josip Pliverić - Georg Jellinek iz 1885. godine" [The Correspondence between Josip Pliveric and Georg Jellinek in 1885], Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta, vol. 50, no. 6, Zagreb, 2000, pp 1053-1084 (co-written with Stjepan Matković).

"Nova Gradiška u vrtlogu krajiške reorganizacije" [Nova Gradiska in the Whirl of Military Frontier Reorganisations], in: Dragica Vidmar (ed.), Nova Gradiška. Izabrane teme [Nova Gradiska. Assorted Themes], Nova Gradiška, 1998, pp 53-63.

"Bečka financijska politika i krajiški monetarni sustav" [Vienna's Financial Policy and the Monetary System of the Frontier], Numizmatičke vijesti, vol. 47, Zagreb, 1994, pp 146-164.

"Kolonizacija njemačkih obrtnika i trgovaca u vojne komunitete Hrvatske krajine", [The Colonization of German Craftsmen and Traders in Military Communities of the Croatian Frontier], in: Goran Beus Richembergh (ed.), Nijemci u Hrvatskoj jučer i danas [Germans in Croatia, Yesterday and Today], Zagreb, 1994, pp 25-42.

"Organizacijski oblik vojnog komuniteta Bjelovar" [The Organizational Structure of the Military Cummunity of Bjelovar], Bjelovarski zbornik, vol. 4, Bjelovar, 1994, pp 9-18.

"Organizacija policije i pravosuđa u Vojnoj krajini" [Organization of Police and Judicature in the Military Frontier], Povijesni prilozi, vol. 13, Zagreb, 1994, pp 77-109.

"Ivanić kao povlašteni krajiški grad" [Ivanić as a Privileged Frontier Town], in: Božo Rudeš (ed.), Devetsto godina Ivanića [Ninehundred Years Ivanic], Kloštar Ivanić, Ivanić Grad, Križ, 1994, pp 237-249.

"Rimokatolička i Pravoslavna crkva u Vojnoj krajini (1740.-1868.)" [The Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church in the Military Frontier (1740-1868)], Povijesni prilozi, vol. 12, Zagreb, 1993, pp39-96.

"Obveze i povlastice krajiških časnika" [Duties and Privileges of Frontier Officers], Povijesni prilozi, vol. 11, Zagreb, 1992, pp 61-110.

"Stvaranje vojnih komuniteta Bjelovara i Petrinje" [Origins of the Military Communities Bjelovar and Petrinja], Povijesni prilozi, vol. 10, Zagreb, 1991, pp 81-102.

"Trgovački pomorski grad Senj i Tršćanska trgovačka intendanca (1752.-1775.)" [The Commercial Seaport Senj and the Commercial Intendancy of Trieste], Senjski zbornik, vol. 18, Senj, 1991, pp 205-216.

"Nastanak i organizacijski oblik vojnih komuniteta od 1748. do 1850. godine" [Origin and Organization of Military Communities between 1748 and 1850], Arhivski vjesnik, vol. 34-35, Zagreb, 1991-1992, pp 185-194.

Public Lectures and Conference Presentations:

"Captain Philip Vukasović' Military Mission to Montenegro in 1788", International Conference "The Golden Age of En'light'ened Troops and Small Wars" and Exhibition "The Military Frontier Revisited", Zagreb, April 15-16, 2019.

"Everyday Life on the Military Frontier", Historical Seminar, University of Cambridge, February 27, 2019.

"Der Friede der die k. k. Militargrenze neu erfand", International conference: "Neuaufbau im Donauraum nach der Türkenzeit: Wissenschaftliche Konferenz anlässlich des 300-jährigen Jubiläums des Passarowitzer Friedens", Vienna, November 14-16, 2018.

"Health Status of Soldiers in the Lika Regiment of the Croatian Military Frontier between 1788 and 1850", Poster, 22nd European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Zagreb, August 28-31, 2018. (co-presenters: Matea Zajc Petranović, Petra Rajić Šikanjić, Vedran Klaužer, Juraj Balić, Goran Ovčariček)

"The Josephinian Reorganisation of the Military Frontier", Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network, University of Cambridge, January 30, 2018.

"Everyday Life on the Military Frontier", Historical Seminar, University of Cambridge, October 25, 2017.

"The Military Frontier in Croatia and Slavonia", Historical Seminar, University of Cambridge, October 23, 2017.

"The 'Small War' that helped save the Monarchy: A Maria Theresian Military Revolution?", International conference: 'King' Maria Theresia, Zagreb, April 10, 2017.

"A Division of the Spoils in Slavonia and Syrmia", International conference: Die Schlacht bei Harsany und ihre Folgen 1687, Villany, April 8, 2016.

"Garnisonsstadt, Stabsort und Militärkommunität. Zivil-militärische Beziehungen in Zengg und Bellowar im 19. Jh.", International workshop: Garnisonsstädte in der Habsburgermonarchie: Militär und Zivilgesellschaft im langen 19. Jh., Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, February 25-26, 2016.

"Muster Rolls of the Croatian Military Frontier as Sources of Historical Demography", Conference: Workshop 'Population Workshop', International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, February 20, 2014. (co-presenter: Vedran Klaužer)

"War reporting on Croats and Pandours under the (in)famous Col. Trenck in newspapers of the 1740s", International Conference: New and the Shape of Europe, Queen Mary, University of London, London, July 26-29, 2013.

"Arhivska građa o vojnokrajiškim pitanjima na kraju 18. stoljeća u fondu Austrijskog državnog arhiva Kriegsminister Lacy Akten" [Archival Sources relevant to the 18th-Century Military Frontier in the Kriegsminister Lacy Akten of the Austrian State Archives], Conference: 4th Congress of Croatian Historians, University of Zagreb, October 3, 2012.

"Jozefinska reforma Vojne krajine 1787. godine" [Josephinian Reform of the Military Frontier in 1787], Public Lecture, University of Zagreb, March 12, 2012.

"Habsburg Cameralism in the Croatian Military Frontier", Lecture at the Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, May 26, 2010.

"Pobuna krajiške posade u zadarskoj tvrđavi 1813. godine" [Mutiny of the Grenzer Garrison at Zadar 1813], Conference: Hrvati i Ilirske pokrajine, Zagreb, Zadar, October 1-3, 2009.

Participant, HERA Matchmaking event, Paris, April 19, 2008.

"The Military Frontier in Croatia and Slavonia 1527-1881", Graduate Lecture, University of Pecs, October 17, 2007.

"Enlightened Policies in the Military Frontier of the Habsburg Monarchy", IASH work-in-progress seminar, Edinburgh, February 21, 2007.

"Souveränität und Identität in kroatischen Beispielen", Conference: Die Grenzen Europas. Von der nationalen Identität zur europäischen Einheit?, Berlin, October 26-27, 2004.

"Die Militärgrenze zwischen Österreich und dem Osmanischen Reich", Workshop: "Herrschaft und Beherrschte in kontinentalen europäischen Imperien im Vergleich (1700-1920)", October 10, 2003.

"Freiheitsvorstellungen an der kroatischen Militärgrenze", Conference: Kollektive Freiheitsvorstellungen im frühzeitlichen Europa, Jena, June 11-14, 2003.

"Die Grenze des Absolutismus: Das Karlstädter und Warasdiner Generalat im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert", Conference: Die Habsburgermonarchie 1620 bis 1740. Leistungen und Grenzen des Absolutismus-Paradigmas, Leipzig, February 12-14, 2003.

Chair, participant in roundtable discussions, Glaubensflüchtlinge. Ursachen und Auswirkungen konfessioneller Migration im frühneuzeitlichen Ostmitteleuropa, Erfurt, November 21-23, 2002.

"Kolonijalna prošlost i društvene različitosti u Nizozemskoj" [Colonial Past and Social Differences in the Netherlands], Conference on former colonial empires, Zagreb, Rijeka and Sisak, November 8-10, 2001.

"Die kroatisch-slawonische Militärgrenze", Graduate Lecture, University of Viennna, October 18, 2001.

"Violence in the service of law and order", Conference: The Language of Violence, Koper, October 11-13, 2001.

"Der politische Konflikt zwischen den Wiener Militärbehörden un dem kroatischen Sabor unter Leopold II", 51st Congres of ICHRPI, Graz and Maribor, September 6-7, 2001.

"Praksa kažnjavanja u Vojnoj krajini sredinom 19. stoljeća" [Punishment Practices in the Military Frontier during the Second Half of the 19th Century], 1st Congress of Croatian Historians, Zagreb, December 10-12, 1999.

"Tursko pitanje i srednjo-europska politika cara Leopolda I."[The Turkish Question and the Middle European Politics of Emperor Leopold I], Conference: The Peace of Srijemski Karlovci 1699, Zagreb, November 18, 1999.

"The Military Communities of the Slavonian Frontier as a Cameralist Experience", Conference: Plan and practice. How to construct a Border society? The Triplex confinium, Graz, December 9-10, 1998.

"The Fate of Frontier Officer Vakanovich during the Napoleonic Wars", Conference: Napoleone e l'Adriatico, Ancona, November 16-17, 1998.

"Cetingradski sabor u svijetlu europskih međunarodnih odnosa" [The Diet of Cetingrad in the Light of International European Relations], Conference: The Diet of Cetingrad in 1527, Cetingrad, November 11, 1997.

"Senj u vrijeme Mateše Antuna Kuhačevića" [Senj in the Time of Mateša Antun Kuhačević] Conference: The 300th Anniversary of the Birth of M. A. Kuhačević, Senj, April 15, 1997.

"Die österreichische Militärgrenze in Kroatien", Conference on Austro-Croatian Cultural Relations, Vienna, April 8, 1997.

"Prilike u austro-ugarskoj monarhiji u vrijeme rakovičke bune" [Political Conditions in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy during the Revolt of Rakovica], Conference: The 125 Anniversary of the Revolt of Rakovica, Zagreb, October 10, 1996.

"Die privilegierten Grenzstädte Bellowar, Zengg und Petrinia zwischen 1787 und 1871", Public lecture, Österreichisches Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropa, Vienna, October 10, 1995.

Participant in roundtable discussions, 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences, University of Montreal, Montreal, August 23 - September 3, 1995.

"Sorge der Steierischen Stände für die Verteidigung der Slawonischen Militärgrenze", I. kroatisch-steierisches Symposion für Lehrerinnen des Faches Geschichte und Sozialkunde, Bad Gams, November 22-23, 1994.

"Brodski vojni komunitet u 18. i 19. st." [The Military Community Brod], Conference on the History of Slavonski Brod, October 10, 1994.

"Organizacijski oblik vojnog komuniteta Bjelovara" [Organization of the Military Community Bjelovar], Conference on the History of Bjelovar, Bjelovar, October 5, 1994.

"Ivanić kao povlašteni krajiški grad" [Ivanich as a Privileged Frontier Town], Conference: 900 Years Ivanić, Ivanić, July 16, 1994

Service and Engagement:

          To the Institute:

1. Department of Early Modern History, Croatian Institute of History, Head since 2001.

2. Board of Governors (elected), Croatian Institute of History, Member 2001-2009.

          To the University of Zagreb:

1. Development of a new curriculum for the Study of History, Under- and Postgraduate Director, History Department, Croatian Studies Center, University of Zagreb, 2005-2007.

2. ECTS Coordinator, Croatian Studies Center, University of Zagreb, 2004-07.

3. Coordinator of all Humanities Studies, Committee for the Reorganisation and Development of University Studies, University of Zagreb, 2004-2005.

          To the profession:

1. Expert panel for the accreditation of study programmes appointed by the Agency for Science and Higher Education (AZVO), Member, October 2017, January 2018.

2. National Council for the Humanities, Member since 2017.

3. Main Committee for Academic Promotion in the Humanities, Chair, 2013-2017.

4. Croatian National Committee of Historical Sciences (HNOPZ), Secretary 1993-99; Vice-president, 1999-2004.

5. Organizational Committee, First Congress of Croatian Historians, Chair 1999.

          To the wider community:

1. Public lectures for history teachers: "The Habsburgs", Zagreb, November 6, 2012, and "The Parliamentary History of England", Zagreb, December 6, 2012.

2. Board of Governors, Primary Montessori School "Baroness Dedee Vranyczany", Zagreb, co-founder and member since 2003.

Fellowships and Grants:

Fulbright grant, Binghamton University, State University of New York, January-May, 2010

Research Fellow at IASH, University of Edinburgh, January-April, 2007

Philips-Van der Willigen undergraduate grant, and grant from Former Yugoslavia, 1986-87.

Research Keywords:

Chronology: Early Modern History, 17th and long 18th Century.

Geography: Military Frontier, Croatia, Europe.

Themes: Politics and Policy, Enlightenment, Gender, National and Cultural Identities, Integrative Processes, Everyday life, Violence, Crime and Justice, Religion, Military History.