Tvrtko Jakovina

Tvrtko Jakovina

Jakovina giving an interview at the 2010 Subversive Festival in Zagreb
Born Požega, Croatia
Occupation historian[1]
Awards Annual State Prize for Science (2004) and Annual Award of Association of University Professors and other scientists (2003)

Tvrtko Jakovina (born 2 March 1972) is a prominent Croatian historian. Jakovina is a professor at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.[2]

Biography

Tvrtko Jakovina was born in the eastern Croatian town of Požega where he finished elementary school and high school and also completed his compulsory military service.[3] He studied history at the University of Zagreb from 1991 to 1996. Tvrtko Jakovina was founder and first honorary member of the Croatian branch of International Students of History Association.[3] As exchange students he attended courses at University of Kansas, USIA and Boston College.[3] Postgraduate studies he finished at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.[3] In academic year 2000-01 he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University in Washington D.C..[3] After that, he also attended London School of Economics and Political Science, seminar on the Holocaust in Israel.[3]

Tvrtko Jakovina held a large number of public lectures and forums in Croatia and abroad.[4] He also co-authored a history textbook for third and fourth year of high school.[3] He also wrote hundreds of articles published in daily newspapers such as Jutarnji list or Vjesnik.[3] Due to his publicly expressed attitudes he is often attacked by Croatian radical right-wingers.[5] In his work he is most interested in the history of the 20th century, American history, the Cold War, Non-Aligned Movement, the policy of detente.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Tvrtko Jakovina :: Detalji znanstvenika". Tkojetko.irb.hr. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  2. ↑ "Tvrtko Jakovina :: Detalji znanstvenika". Tkojetko.irb.hr. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Tvrtko Jakovina - Kratki životopis" (in Croatian). Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
  4. ↑ Gordan Duhaček (2011-05-16). "Pokret nesvrstanih mogao bi opet imati važnu ulogu - tportal.hr /kultura/". Tportal.hr. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  5. ↑ "Hrvatsko Pravo". Hsp1861.hr. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  6. ↑ "Tvrtko Jakovina: Nesvrstani su bili puni besprizornih likova - mJutarnji". Jutarnji.hr. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  7. ↑ "Tvrtko Jakovina :: Detalji znanstvenika". Tkojetko.irb.hr. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
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