Vjekoslav Perica

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Vjekoslav Perica is a Croatian writer and academic.

Perica is the author of the book Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He was a columnist and reporter for the Croatian weekly Nedjeljna Dalmacija in the late 1980s until going to America in 1991, and former Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the United States Institute of Peace and lecturer at several U.S. universities. In 2007 Perica was a U.S. Fulbright scholar in Belgrade, Serbia.

A two-volume Serbian translation of Balkan Idols with a new introduction was published by Biblioteka XX vek from Belgrade in 2006. Perica is currently Associate Professor of history at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, and independent scholar in the USA.