MEDHRID

Collaborators

Nikša Varezić

Nikša Varezić, PhD

Assoc. Prof.
nvarezic@ffst.hr

Is the head of the MEDHRID project. He is employed at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. His research focuses on early modern Mediterranean and croatian history, with particular emphasis on early modern diplomacy. Along with active participation in research projects, he is the author of one scholarly monograph and editor of several volumes, also publishes research papers in croatian and international journals, and regularly takes part in academic conferences. In addition to his teaching and research duties, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal The Journal of Dalmatian Archives – Sources and Contributions to the History of Dalmatia (Vjesnik dalmatinskih arhiva – izvori i prilozi za povijest Dalmacije).

Tonija Andrić

Tonija Andrić, PhD

Assoc. Prof.
tonija@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. Her research focuses on the economic and social history of medieval Dalmatia. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses related to croatian and European medieval history and auxiliary historical sciences. She actively participates in research projects, as well as being the author and editor of several scholarly monographs, publishes research papers in croatian and international journals, and regularly participates in academic conferences.

Lucijana Armanda Šundov

Lucijana Armanda Šundov, PhD

Assoc. Prof.
larmanda@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. She actively participates in research projects and publishes professional and research papers in the field of theory and history of Croatian literature, with particular interest in fantasy and children’s literature.

Vedran Barbarić

Vedran Barbarić, PhD

Assoc. Prof.
vedbarba@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. His main research interests include Mediterranean landscape archaeology and the material culture of the Bronze and Iron Ages in Dalmatia. Since 2007 he has led systematic archaeological excavations at the Rat site near Ložišća on the island of Brač, and since 2022 he has co-led the international research project Brač Island Project. Since 2022 he has also served as coordinator of the project Life on the Edge – Studying the Coastal Zone of the Late Palaeolithic, led by Dr. Simon Fitch, University of Bradford (UK).

Gabriela Bašić Hanžek

Gabriela Bašić Hanžek, PhD

Assistant Prof.
gbasic@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. Her research interests include logic, argumentation theory, philosophy of language, and critical thinking. She is actively engaged in research projects, has authored one monograph and edited several volumes, publishes in both croatian and international journals, and regularly organizes and presents at academic conferences. She is one of the founding members of the Scientific Centre for Logic, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (Berislav Žarnić Scientific Centre) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split. She collaborates with the Centre for Logic and Decision Theory at the University of Rijeka and is a member of several Croatian philosophical and logical associations.

Frano Bilić

Frano Bilić

Research Assistant
fbilic@unist.hr

Is employed at the Centre for Croatian, Venetian and Ottoman Studies, University of Split. He completed degrees in History and in English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, where he is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in Humanities (History module). His doctoral dissertation is titled Political Activity and Ideological Concepts of Milan pl. Šufflay. As part of his research, he conducted studies in Regensburg at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. During his doctoral studies he has published several professional and research papers and participated in international conferences in Munich and Oświęcim.

Snježana Bralić

Snježana Bralić, PhD

Assoc. Prof.
sbralic@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of Italian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, where she teaches linguistics courses. She publishes professional and research papers in Croatian and international publications and presents at conferences in Croatia and abroad. Her research interests include lexical and syntactic features of contemporary Italian, phraseology and neologisms, and the role of vocabulary in glottodidactic approaches and methods.

Ivana Dizdar

Ivana Dizdar, PhD

Senior Assistant
idizdar@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. Her research interests include literary theory, text interpretation, older Croatian literature, creative writing, and teaching Croatian as a foreign language. She has published around fifteen research papers and four poetry books, as well as co-edited one scholarly monograph. She is a member of the Centre for Comparative and Korean Studies and the Centre for Research and Education in Human Rights at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, as well as a member of the editorial board of the journals Mogućnosti and Cross Cultural Studies Review.

Mladenko Domazet

Mladenko Domazet, PhD

Prof.
mdomazet@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. His research focuses on the history of everyday life in Dalmatian communities, especially those of Hvar and Kaštela. He has published five single-author scholarly monographs and five co-authored volumes, co-authored seven exhibitions, and published thirty-five scholarly and professional articles. He regularly presents at academic and professional conferences.

Helena Dragić

Helena Dragić, PhD

Assoc. Prof.
hdragic@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. Her research focuses on topics from Croatian literary history, onomastics, toponymy, anthroponymy, and intangible cultural heritage.

Zvonimir Forker

Zvonimir Forker, PhD

Senior Assistant
zforker@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, where he teaches courses related to ancient civilizations and the ancient world. He also teaches military history at the University of Defence and Security. His research interests focuses on Late Antiquity, particularly the presence of the Eastern Roman Empire on the eastern Adriatic coast during the 5th and 6th centuries.

Nikica Mihaljević

Nikica Mihaljević, PhD

Prof.
nikica@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of Italian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. Her research interests include 19th, 20th, and 21st century Italian literature, women’s literary tradition, comparative studies, and ecocriticism. In addition to her teaching and research activities, she also serves as Head of the Department of Italian Language and Literature, coordinator of the postgraduate doctoral module Literature and Culture and Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal Proceedings of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split (Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu). She is the author of nine scholarly monographs, five of which she edited, as well as more than fifty scientific articles. Since 2024, she has been leading the international project Competence Transformation in the University: Peer-Tutoring as a Key Element in Supporting Student Development (Peer-Edu), in which the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split is one of the partners.

Anđela Milinović Hrga

Anđela Milinović Hrga, PhD

Assoc. Prof.
milinovic@ffst.hr

She is employed at the Department of Teacher Education of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Split. She is the author of the scientific monograph “The Linguistic Image of Split Journalism between the Two World Wars” and numerous professional and research papers on the development of the Croatian language in the 20th and 21st centuries. In her research, she focuses on Croatian-English language contacts and the relationship between language and identity, with a particular interest in the Mediterranean cultural context and the historical-sociolinguistic aspects of the formation of linguistic identity.

Edi Miloš, PhD

Assoc. Prof.
emilos@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. He has published numerous works on Croatian history of the 19th and 20th centuries and on Franco-Croatian relations. He is the author of an extensive monograph on Antun Radić and serves on the editorial board of Les Cahiers de Framespa – e-Storia (Toulouse) and the scientific board of La Revue des études slaves (Paris).

Sandra Lukšić

Sandra Lukšić, PhD

Assist. Prof.
sluksic@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of German Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, where she teaches linguistics courses. Her research interests include pragmatic theories of language, discourse analysis, rhetoric, and stylistics. She is the author of one monograph and around ten scholarly papers and actively participates in research projects.

Frane Prpa

Frane Prpa

Assistant
fprpa@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. He completed graduate studies in History and Art History at the same faculty and is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in Humanities (Art History module). His research focuses on early modern architecture and urbanism, particularly in inland Dalmatia. He actively participates in croatian and international conferences and has authored several research papers.

Nikola Sunara

Nikola Sunara, PhD

Assist. Prof.
niksun@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. He is one of the founders and a member of the Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage. His research interests include Croatian oral literature, intangible cultural heritage, and the interaction between oral and written literature.

Ana Torlak, PhD

Assoc. Prof.
atorlak@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. Her research focuses on ancient Salona, particularly the history of archaeological research and the contextualization of monuments discovered before the mid-19th century. She also studies private antiquities collections of the 18th and 19th centuries. She is the author of one monograph and more than twenty professional and research papers.

Marko Trogrlić

Marko Trogrlić, PhD

Prof.
mtrogrlic@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. His research addresses the history of Dalmatia from the late 18th to the early 20th century, with particular emphasis on the policies of Vienna’s central institutions and their impact on internal governance and foreign policy in the Central European, Adriatic, and Southeast European contexts. He publishes in Croatian, German, and Italian.

Tea-Tereza Vidović Schreiber

Tea-Tereza Vidović Schreiber, PhD

Assist. Prof.
tvidovic@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of Early and Preschool Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. Her research focuses on literary theory and history, Croatian (non)canonical writers, postmodern poetry, oral tradition, Christian motifs, storytelling, puppetry, and media culture.

Josip Vrandečić

Josip Vrandečić, PhD

Prof.
jvrandecic@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. His research focuses on early modern Croatian history and 19th-century national history, particularly social, political, and ideological processes in a broader European context. Furthermore, he explores identity, national and political ideology and comparative approaches to Croatian history. He has published 21 books and 220 professional and research papers.

Brian D. Willems

Brian Daniel Willems, PhD

Prof.
bwillems@ffst.hr

Is employed at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. He also serves as Head of the Research Centre Studia Mediterranea. His research focuses on literature, literary theory, and gender studies. He is the author of six monographs and editor of two volumes published by international publishers. His novel The Surviving Cells will be published by Les Fugitives in autumn 2026.