Živjeti na Krivom Putu: Sv. 1, Etnološko-povijesna monografija o primorskim Bunjevcima

Born August 11, 1954 in Osijek. In 1980 she graduated English language and literature and ethnology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. In 1980 she started working as an associate at the Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. In 1988 she defended her MA thesis titled Traditions of Wedding Honors, Terms and Roles, with Special Regard to the Phenomenon and Role of ‘staćel’, and in 1997 PhD thesis titled Some Phenomena of Wedding Customs among Croat Bunjevci as Source for Studying their Ethnogenesis. She designed and taught several courses prior to the Bologna reform: Wedding Customs of Slavic Peoples (from academic year 1989/1990), Comparative Research of Customs (from 1998/1999) and Seminar in General Ethnology (from 2001/02), which grew out of an optional field-research course. She has taught postgraduate courses at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology since the academic year 1996/1998, within the course The Principles of Research of Material Culture. She co-authored the exhibition From the Heritage of Croats of Bačka – Bunjevci organized in cooperation with DVPH and the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb. She cooperated with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia on two propositions for the inscription of the škripavac cheese from and the prelo social practice from Lika on the register of intangible cultural heritage. For her book Bunjevačke studije Milana Černelić received the annual award of the Croatian Ethnological Society Milovan Gavazzi in 2008, in the scientific and teaching work category, and in 2010 she received the award in the same category as co-editor of volumes 2 and 3 of the monograph Živjeti na Krivom Putu. In 2012 she received the Charter of the Town of Senj for her ethnological research of Senj’s hinterland. For their work done as part of fieldwork she supervised, some students received awards from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatian Ethnological Society and the Chancellor’s Award for science. She is the member of the Croatian Ethnological Society, SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore), Matrix Croatica, Society of University Professors and Society of Croats of Vojvoda and Podunavlje. The focus of her scientific interest encompasses phenomena from spiritual and social culture: customs, family, the role of ethnologist in the development of rural tourism, problems of ethnic groups – especially Croatian (sub)ethnic group of Bunjevci and the issues of their ethnogenesis and the formation of their cultural an ethnic identity. From 1981 onwards she has collaborated on the following research projects: Peasant communal family (Communal families among Croats in the 19th and 20th century), Building a film documentation, Communality and its ethnological indicators, Thematic ethnological research, Destroyed heritage of Western Slavonia. From 2002-2006 she supervised the project Identity and ethnogenesis of coastal Bunjevci. From 2008 onwards she has been supervising the scientific project Identity and ethnocultural formation of Bunjevci. She cooperates on the national project Triplex Confinium and two international scientific projects: Bridges: Triplex Confinium: Croatian Bordlerlands in Euro-Mediterranean Context 1500. – 1800., (Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (2004 – 2010) and Janković Castle: historic site, generating sustainable development of the Ravni Kotari region, University of Zagreb, from 2011 onwards. At the invitation of the Cultural-regional association “Napredak” from Gornja Lastva she supervised the project of ethnological field research in Gornja Lastva and other Croatian settlements in Boka Kotorska.

Marijeta Rajković Iveta was born in 1976 in Sisak. She graduated Ethnology and History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb (2003). She received her PhD in Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology in 2010. The title of her PhD thesis was: Coastal Bunjevci: Migrations (1918 – 1939), Translocalism, Acculturation, Identity. In 2004, she started working as a junior research assistant at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. She was appointed research associate in 2012, assistant professor in 2014, and associate professor in 2019. She started teaching at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology in 2004. She created and introduced the following new courses into the curriculum: Anthropology of Migrations and Identity of Minority Cultures (since 2005, undergraduate study programme) and Contemporary Croatian Migrations in a Global Context (since 2014, postgraduate doctoral programme). She has been teaching at the Croaticum programme – Centre for Croatian as a Second and Foreign Language since 2010 (since 2017, as the holder of the course Croatian Ethnological Heritage). She participated in ten national or international scientific research projects. She has been the principal investigator on four scientific projects, among which the Croatian-Slovenian bilateral project Second Homes and Lifestyle Migration in Slovenia and Croatia (2018 – 2019), deserves a special mention. The following topics have been at the focus of her research: emigration and immigration to Croatia after Croatia’s entry into the EU (especially that of highly-skilled migrants, lifestyle migrants and refugees), return migration (from South America), integration processes, Croatian diaspora community (in Vojvodina, Boka kotorska, Austria), national and ethnic minorities in the Republic of Croatia, coethnic migration, historical anthropology and border studies. She has applied her scientific knowledge to the development of the economy, revitalization and tourism, especially in mountainous areas (projects related to the National Park Northern Velebit and Velebit Nature Park). She has published one authored book (The Czechs from Jazvenik, 2013), two co-authored books (Croats in Boka kotorska: Migrations, Wedding Customs, Identities, 2018, with M. Dronjić and Those Who Rise from Their Graves at Night: Vampires in Local Tales and Popular Culture, 2017, with V. Iveta) and has co-edited four scientific monographs, four almanacs (one of which is in English). She has also edited the Croatian translation of a German book and published about 50 scientific papers, chapters in books and professional papers in international and Croatian publications. She has applied the results of her research in the popularization of science through media, popular lectures, public panel discussions, co-authorship of exhibitions and/or catalogues of exhibitions (Town Museum of Senj, City Museum of Subotica (Republic of Serbia), Town Museum of Pakrac). She also worked on the exhibition Merika. Iseljavanje iz Srednje Europe u Ameriku 1880. – 1914. (America. Emigration from Central Europe to America 1880-1914) as a researcher and author of a feature in the exhibition catalogue. This exhibition was first set up in the City Museum of Rijeka, after which it (from 2009  to 2013) visited several museums, most notably the Ellis Island Immigration Museum (USA). She presented papers at about forty national and international conferences. She was a member of the organising and/or scientific committees of 7 conferences (6 of them international), and president of one (Contemporary Migration Trends and Flows on the Territory of Southeast Europe, 2016, Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and IMIN). Guest lectures at international conferences and universities (selection): 2018, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; 2019, 2010, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Sofia, Bulgaria (2014, 2011) and summer schools: 2016 Summer School of Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Folklore on the Balkans (Konitsa, Greece); 2017 Croatian-American School of Archaeology, Anthropology and History (Krasno, Croatia). She has developed her knowledge in the field of migration, integration and minority studies at many institutions abroad: University of Malmö, Sweden (2019); University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (2019); University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018); Miguel Hernández University, Elche, Spain (2017); University of Regensburg, Germany (2011) and Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (2007, 2005). At the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, she has held, and still holds, several functions: Chair for Minority Cultures and Communities (2017 – today); Deputy Head of the doctoral study Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (2018 – today); Deputy Head of Department (replacement in mandate 2/2019 – 10/2019); Deputy Head of the Centre for Comparative Historical and Intercultural Studies (2018 – today); Member of the Council of the Faculty (2019 – today). She has won five awards. She received the Annual award of the Croatian Ethnological Society (Republic of Croatia) “Milovan Gavazzi” for scientific and teaching work twice: in 2018 for the co-edited volume: Contemporary Migration Trends and Flows on the Territory of Southeast Europe, and in 2009 for co-editorship of the three volumes of the monograph Living in Krivi Put. She received two international awards, one from the Institute for Culture of Croats of Vojvodina (Republic of Serbia) for the co-edited volume Bunjevci within the Context of Space and Time: 2016 the Triennial Tomo Vereš award for best book in the area of science and non-fiction for the period of 2013 – 2015 and, in 2015, the Emerik Pavić award for best book of 2014. In 2012, she was awarded the Charter of the City of Senj (Republic of Croatia) for distinguished success and achievements in ethnological research of the Senj hinterland (with M. Černelić & T. Rubić). She is member of the following professional associations and networks: Croatian Ethnological Society (HED), IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe); InASEA (International Association for Southeast European Anthropology); SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, member of the Working Group on Migration and Mobility); Society Terra banalis, member of the Highly skilled migrants research network, Malmö University. She is one of the coordinators of mobileECA – Platform for Mobility and International Cooperation of Ethnologists and Cultural Anthropologists (with S. Lončar & P. Kelemen) at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. The main areas of her research interest are: migration (especially contemporary migration) and post-migration phenomena, minority communities, historical anthropology and border studies.

Tihana Rubić was born in Zagreb in 1978. In 2004 she graduated Ethnology and History of Art at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The title of her graduation thesis was “Problems and Levels of Identity on the Example of Cultural and Artistic Societies in Kordun”. The same year she started postgraduate studies of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the same faculty. She received her PhD in 2012 and her dissertation was titled “Ethnological Research of Family and Unemployment. Strategies of Survival from the 1990s till Present”. From 2007 to 2008 she worked as research assistant at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research on the project Contemporary Cultural Trends and the Formation of Communities and Identities, under the supervision of dr. Jasna Čapo Žmegač. Working on this project she defined the topic of her dissertation, and finished it under the supervision of dr. Jasna Čapo Žmegač. Since late 2008 she has worked as junior research assistant on the project Identity and Ethno-Cultural Formation of Bunjevci, under the supervision of dr. Milana Černelić, at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She holds seminars in the courses Basic Concepts of Croatian Ethnology and Ethnocultural Overview of the World and teaches the course Anthropology of Family and Kinship. She did research on a series of national and international projects, including an FP6 project “Kinship and Social Security (KASS)” in 2005. She presented papers at about fifteen national and international conferences, published works in national and international publications and edited four books: she is the co-editor of three volumes of the monograph on the life of coastal Bunjevci, titled Živjeti na Krivom Putu (Living in Krivi Put) and the collection published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Croatian Ethnological Society (HED). In 2010 she received the Annual Award of the Croatian Ethnological Society for Excellence in Research and Teaching, and in 2012 the Charter of the Town of Senj. She received three scholarships: in Florence (Italy) in 2001, Prishtina (Kosovo) in 2007, and Halle/Saale (Germany) in 2007 at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology. In her student days she co-founded and presided the Students Club “Domaći”, during the period of club’s (co)organizing of several student scientific events at home and in the region, and when it had the record number of members. Apart from former and current membership in international professional organizations (ICTM, EASA, SIEF, InASEA), she is the long-time member of the Croatian Ethnological Society (HED). As the member of HED she co-organized summers schools, was the member of the organization committee of one of its annual memorial edition, editor of the Newsletter and the member of the Board of Directors and the Supervisory board. She is currently co-heading the Club of the Croatian Ethnological Society. Her scientific interests encompass the following areas: family and kinship, social relations and formal and informal labor markets.