curriculum vitae

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education

2018-present PhD, Comparative History, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna
thesis title: "Links in the Chain: Department Stores, Modernization of Retail, and the Transformations of the Urban Environment in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1980s"

2017-2018 MA, Comparative History, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna
thesis title: "Mirrors of the City: Department Stores, Urban Space and Politics of Retail in Socialist Yugoslavia (1950s-1960s)"

2014-2017 MA, Art History & Comparative Literature, University of Zagreb
thesis title: "Department Stores in Zagreb during Socialist Yugoslavia"

2011-2014 BA, Art History & Comparative Literature, University of Zagreb

teaching experience

January-April 2020, Foundations II: Gender and Religion (Seminar and Lectures), Department of History, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna
teaching assistant

January-April 2020, Foundations II: Gender and Religion (Reading Seminar), Department of History, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna
teaching assistant

work experience

September 2020-present, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna
assistant coordinator

October 2016-August 2017, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia
museum guard for various exhibitions and the permanent collection

November 2016, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
museum guard & guide for the exhibition “Alberto Giacometti – Portraits of the Present”

May-July 2016, Manière Noire Galerie, Berlin, Germany
gallery assistant (paid internship)

2014-2016, Library of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
assistant librarian

awards & grants

Doctoral Research Study Grant 2019 from Central European University, Budapest/Vienna

MA Research Study Grant 2018 from Central European University, Budapest/Vienna

Peter Hanak Prize for best MA thesis in History in 2017/2018, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna

Franjo Marković Award for best scientific, art or sport achievement in 2017/2018, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Radovan Ivančević Award for best MA thesis in Art History in 2017, Croatian Society of Art Historians, Zagreb, Croatia

Award for Excellence in Studies 2017 for best graduate student in Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

MA Freemover Short Term Research Grant 2017 from Central European Exchange Program for University Students (CEEPUS)

Erasmus+ Internship Grant 2017

Franjo Marković Award for best scientific, art or sport achievement in 2015/2016, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

University scholarship for especially talented full-time students 2015-2017, University of Zagreb

Scholarship of the French Government 2015 for a language course at CAVILAM, Vichy, France

Award for Excellence in Studies 2014 for best undergraduate student of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

State scholarship for especially talented full-time students 2013-2014, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, Croatia

Award for best student paper on the topic of women and gender theory 2012: special recognition and commendations for the paper “Transsexual Transylvania: Elements of Subversion in the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, Center for Women's Studies, Zagreb