Gospić Regional Center

First name: Ivan

Last name: Brlić

Title: PhD

Job title: Senior research associate

Research field: History

Teaching position: Adjunct assistant professor

Address of the institution: Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences - Regional Center Gospić | Trg Stjepana Radića 14 | 53000 Gospić

Room number at the institution: Regional Center Gospić

Phone number: +385 53 741 144

E-mail 1: ivan.brlic@pilar.hr

Author's books: 2

Editorial books: 4

Papers in international databases: 13

Papers in conference proceedings: 10

Chapters in books: 6

Other: 13

Links:

– https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/27482
– https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xbf3E2UAAAAJ&hl=hr

National projects:

2026-2031: Habsburg Bureaucracy and Local Communities: Counties of Banal Croatia – Project associate
2024-2028: BAD – Border Area Development – Project leader
2024-2026: Camp Slana on the Island of Pag – Project associate
2020-2026: RURALIKA – Establishing Criteria for Evaluating Modernization and (Post)transition Processes in Rural Areas of Croatia through a Case Study of the Rural Area of Lika – Project associate
2020-2023: Velebit Uprising – Project leader
2020-2022: History of Football Club Gospić `91 – On the Occasion of One Hundred Years of Professional Football in Gospić – Project leader
2019-2020: Forgotten victims in Croatia or from the history of the suffering of Roma in the areas of Lika, Gorski Kotar and the Croatian Littoral during World War II – Project associate
2009-2014: Lexicon of Croatian Emigration and Minorities – Project associate
2008-2017: Minorities in Croatia and Croatians in Surrounding Countries: Historical Identities – Project associate

Year of employment at the Pilar Institute: 2008

Title of the highest academic degree so far: PhD

Year of obtaining the highest academic degree: 2013

Institution and place of obtaining the highest academic degree: Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Zagreb

Research field: Croatian and world moderrn and contemporary history

Research interests: environmental history, local history, Lika history, social history, history of borders and mentalities

Participation in professional conferences:

40 national and international  participations

Membership in professional associations:

European Association for Environmental History – ESEH
Association for Croatian History
Society for Croatian Economic History and Environmental History

Teaching:

2014/2015-2018/2019: University of Zadar, Department of Teacher Training in Gospić – Croatian and World History

Awards and recognitions:

Award of the Matrix Croatica, Osijek Branch

International scholarships:

GO STYRIA – One-semester stay at the University of Graz

First name: Anita

Last name: Bušljeta Tonković

Title: PhD

Job title: Senior research associate

Research field: Social sciences

Teaching position: Assistant professor

Address of the institution: Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences - Regional Center Gospić | Trg Stjepana Radića 14 | 53000 Gospić

Room number at the institution: Regional Center Gospić

Phone number: +385 53 741 140

E-mail 1: anita.busljeta@pilar.hr

Author's books: 1

Editorial books: 2

Papers in international databases: 19

Papers in conference proceedings: 4

Chapters in books: 6

Other: 5

Links:

– https://www.bib.irb.hr/pretraga?operators=and|Bu%C5%A1ljeta%20Tonkovi%C4%87,%20Anita%20%2823934%29|text|profile
– https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=04PPtLsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

National projects:

2020-2025: Establishment research project of the Croatian Science Foundation: Establishment of Criteria for Evaluating Modernization and (Post)transition Processes in Rural Areas of Croatia through a Case Study of the Rural Area of Lika (RURALIKA) – Project leader
2014-2018 iPRESENT project (Installation Project for REsearch about Social ENTrepreneurship). Project of the Croatian Science Foundation. Project leader Dražen Šimleša, PhD. – Project associate
2008-2013: Social Re/Construction in Rural Territories. Project of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. Project leader Prof. Maja Štambuk, PhD – Project associate

International projects:

2020-2021: Erasmus+ KA205 – Strategic Partnerships in the Field of youth; Under the Loupe: Rural Youth Work. – Section Leader for Croatia

Year of employment at the Pilar Institute: 2008

Title of the highest academic degree so far: PhD

Year of obtaining the highest academic degree: 2014

Institution and place of obtaining the highest academic degree: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Research field: Sociology

Research interests: sociology of development and environment, rural sociology, social and human capital

Participation in professional conferences:

9 national participations
15 international participations

Membership in professional associations:

Member of the Croatian Sociological Society since 2008

Teaching:

2018-2020: University of Zadar, Department of Teacher Education in Gospić – Civic literacy
2016-2020: University of Zadar, Department of Teacher Education in Gospić – Sociology of development and environment

First name: Adrian

Last name: Knežević

Title: PhD

Job title: Assistant

Address of the institution: Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences - Regional Center Gospić | Trg Stjepana Radića 14 | 53000 Gospić

Room number at the institution: Regional Center Gospić

Phone number: +385 53 741 140

E-mail 1: adrian.knezevic@pilar.hr

Papers in conference proceedings: 1

National projects:

2022-2026: Establishment research project HRZZ: Establishment of Criteria for Evaluating Modernization and (Post)transition Processes in Rural Areas of Croatia Through a Case Study of the Rural Area of ​​Lika (RURALIKA) – Project associate

Year of employment at the Pilar Institute: 2022

Title of the highest academic degree so far: PhD

Year of obtaining the highest academic degree: 2025

Institution and place of obtaining the highest academic degree: University of Zadar, Zadar

Research field: Modern and contemporary history

Research interests: history of Dalmatia in the 19th and 20th centuries, history of Lika in the 19th and 20th centuries, history of journalism in Croatia, environmental history

Participation in professional conferences:

2 national participations
1 international participation

Membership in professional associations:

Society for Croatian History