Based on the Rector's act from 2012 the research activities in the Centre are performed by the employees who are also the initiators of the Centre, and those activties are part of the employees' regular academic work. Since November 2012 two volunteers were helping in the Centre, since March 2013 two assistants became members of the staff, while since September 2013 there was an assistant and a volunteer assistant. From April 2014 there were four employees and two associates. Since December 2014 for two years there was also a post-doctoral fellow thanks to the NEWFELPRO - Marie Curie programme. Since October 2017 Centre gathers four employed researchers and four associates. Thanks to the research project Microsocialism, since April 2019 a doctoral (four years) and a postdoctoral researcher (six months) were employed, since April 2021 another postdoctoral researcher (six months). Currently, the Centre gathers five employees and several external associates. From time to time there are students and PhD students who participate in traineeship programmes. The Centre is also open to visiting researchers.

Head of the Centre coordinates the activities and is responsible for their work to the Center Council and the University Rector. Current head is Professor Igor Duda, PhD.

Igor Duda

He is a full professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities. He graduated in History and Croatian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2000). He earned his MSc (2004) and PhD (2009) degrees in History from the same university. He is focusing on history of everyday life and social history of Croatia and socialist Yugoslavia. He is the author of four volumes (in Croatian): In Pursuit of Well-Being. On History of Leisure and Consumer Society in Croatia in the 1950s and 1960s (2005), Well-Being Found. Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Croatia in the 1970s and 1980s (2010), Today when I Become a Pioneer. Childhood and the Ideology of Yugoslav Socialism (2015), and Socialism on the Doorstep. Local Community and the Everyday Life of Social Self-management in Yugoslavia (2023). He has edited or co-edited several edited volumes. He was the principal investigator of the research projects financed by the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ): Making of the Socialist Man. Croatian Society and the Ideology of Yugoslav Socialism (2014-2017) and Microstructures of Yugoslav Socialism: Croatia 1970-1990 (2018-2023). Since 2025, involved in the ERC project Housing.Yu as a researcher and supervisor. | Personal page | Full CV

Lada Duraković

She is a full professor at the Academy of Music. She graduated in Musicology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (1992), and earned MSc (2003) and PhD degree (2007) in History from the Faculty of Humanities and Socials Sciences, University of Zagreb. Her field of research is interaction between ideology and music in the 20th century. She has published three volumes (in Croatian): Music Life in Pula/Pola during the Period of the Fascist Dictatorship 1926–1943 (2003), Ideology and the Musical Life: Pula 1945–1966 (2011) and Music as the Educational Mean in the Forming of the "Socialist Man": Music Education in Primary Schools in Croatia (1945-1965). She is a member of the Croatian Musicological Society and the Croatian Journalists' Association. | Personal page

Tina Filipović

She is a senior assistant (post-doc) at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, and at CKPIS, where she was previously (2019-2023) employed as assistant and doctoral researcher within the project Microsocialism thanks to the Young Researcher's Career Development Project (Croatian Science Foundation). She earned a BA (2011) and MA degree (2015) in History from the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, and a PhD from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Position and influence of the Federation of Associations of Combatants of National Liberation War in Croatia during the 1970s and 1980s on the examples of Labin and Sisak municipalities, 2025). At the People's Museum of Labin she completed a one-year traineeship programme and earned the title of curator. In CKPIS she cooperated in the projects Changing Representations of Socialist Yugoslavia and Microsocialism, in which she researched the partisan veteran organisation SUBNOR.  Since 2023, she has been researchng within the ERC project Social Politics in European Borderlands. A Comparative and Transnational Study, 1870s-1990s. | Personal page

Boris Koroman

He is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities. He graduated in Ethnology and Croatian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2001), and earned PhD degree after completing the Postgraduate Doctoral Studies in Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Culture at the same faculty (2014). His field of research is the interaction between literature, arts and culture, and political-ideological paradigms. He is the author of the volume Croatian Fiction and Political Transition (2018, in Croatian). | Personal page

Andrea Matošević

He is a full professor at the Department of Teacher Education and Foreign Languages, Faculty of Humanities. He graduated in Ethno-anthropology and Italian Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Padua (2003), earned his MA degree in Intercultural Studies from the same faculty (2005) and his PhD in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2010). His fields of research are ethno-anthropology, history of ethnology/anthropology, oral history, industrial anthropology, popular culture, theories of multiculturalism and philosophy. He is the author of the volumes (in Croatian): Underground. Anthropology of Mining in Labin Area in 20th Century (2011) and Socialism with a Shock-work Face. Ethnography of Working Zeal (2015), as well as  the co-author of the book (in Croatian) Bastards of Long Duration. Balkanist Discourses (with Tea Škokić, 2014). He is a member of the Croatian Ethnological Society and the European Association of Social Anthropologists. | Personal page

E X T E R N A L    A S S O C I A T E S

Chiara Bonfiglioli

She is an external associate of CKPIS and an associate professor at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice where she is the PI of the ERC project WO-NAM: Women and Non-Alignment in the Cold War era: biographical and intersectional perspectives. She holds a BA in Political Sciences from the University of Bologna, and an MA and PhD from the Research Institute for History and Culture, Graduate Gender Programme, University of Utrecht. From 2012 to 2014, she has been research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, within the framework of the CITSEE project; from 2014 to 2017 a Newfelpro post-doctoral fellow at CKPIS; later employed at the University College Cork. In CKPIS she collaborated within the Microsocialism project. Her doctoral dissertation dealt with women’s political and social activism in Italy and Yugoslavia (1945-1957). She is the author of the book Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector (2019). | Personal page

Anita Buhin

She is an external assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities in Pula, an associate of CKPIS and a former postdoctoral researcher at the project Microsocialism. She earned a BA (2008) and MA degree (2011) in History and Croatian Language and Literature from the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, an MA degree in Central European History from the Central European University in Budapest (2012) and a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in Florence (2019) with the dissertation Yugoslav Socialism “Flavoured with Sea, Flavoured with Salt”: Mediterranization of Yugoslav Popular Culture in the 1950s and 1960s under Italian Influence (published as a book in 2022). She is interested in cultural and social history of the 20th century with a focus on popular culture and football within socialism. In 2019 she was employed in the Centre within the Microsocialism project. Since 2022 holds a postdoc at the Nova University Lisbon. | Personal page

Tin Celner

A volunteer assistant in the Centre since October 2024, but until then involved in the activities through student internship and a project. He completed his BA (2020) and MA studies in history (thesis Petrova Gora and the National Liberation Struggle: from History to the Use of History, 2024) at the Faculty of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. He was extremely active in student associations and in creating the student show Radio x-ica on HRT Radio Pula, while for the overall success in his studies in the academic year 2021/22, he won the Rector's Award. In 2023, through CKPIS, he was involved in the project In Search of Lost Time – Yugoslavia and European Integration (DAAD, Humboldt University of Berlin). In 2024, he started Postgraduate Doctoral Studies of Modern and Contemporary Croatian History in a European and World Context at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Doctoral Workshop in Pula.

Antun Dulibić

External associate at the Centre since 2025 when he joined the Institute of Art History in Zagreb as a research assistant on the project HOUSING.YU – The Right to Housing: The Production of Everyday Living Spaces in Yugoslavia (1945–1991) (ERC-CoG, No. 101171985), which is carried out in collaboration with CKPIS. He graduated in 2023 from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, with a double major in Sociology and History, and is a recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence. As a student, he was a member of the editorial board of the journal Diskrepancija, the Faculty Council and the Students' Council. He collaborated in several research projects and published on the H-Alter portal. In 2025, he began the doctoral programme Modern and Contemporary Croatian History in the European and World Context at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. His research focuses on the economic, political and housing reforms of socialist Yugoslavia.

Saša Vejzagić

He has been an associate of the Centre since 2016, and a postdoctoral researcher at the project Microsocialism, temporarily fully employed during 2021. He earned a BA (2008) and MA degree (2011) in History from the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, an MA degree in Central European History from the Central European University in Budapest (2013) and and a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in Florence (2021) with the dissertation The Rise of a Business Class – Managerial Elites in Yugoslavia, 1963-1978. He is interested in economic, business, political, labor and social history of the 20th century with a focus on Yugoslav socialism. He co-edited the volume Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the GDR and Yugoslavia (2024). | Personal page

Sara Žerić

A volunteer assistant in the Centre since September 2020, and a doctoral student at IOS Regensburg since 2021. She earned her BA (2017) and MA (2020) degrees in history from the Faculty of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. As a student, she was active in the International Students of History Association (ISHA). In 2018-2019 she was an associate of the Croatian-German project (cooperation CKPIS-IOS) Remembering and Forgetting Industrial Labour in the Adriatic: The Case of Istria, thanks to which she was on a research stay in Regensburg. In 2019 as a member of the project Bedrohliche Wende nach ideologischer Erstarrung: das jugoslawische 1989 “revisited” (DAAD), she participated at a master workshop in Sarajevo. She is a memeber of the Organizing Committee of the Doctoral Workshop in Pula. Her research focus is on social history of socialist Yugoslavia, especially on the process of modernisation. | Personal page

F O R M E R   E X T E R N A L   A S S O C I A T E S

Igor Stanić

He is a former associate of the Centre and a former teaching assistant at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. In addition to other activities at the Centre since its foundation, he was also a researcher in the project Making of the Socialist Man. He earned a BA (2009) and MA degree (2012) in History from the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. In 2012, he started Postgraduate Doctoral Studies of Modern and Contemporary Croatian History in a European and World Context at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. His field of research is social history of the second half of the 20th century with a focus on labor in socialism. | Personal page

S T U D E N T S   A N D   D O C T O R A L   S T U D E N T S

Students cooperating within the projects:
Tina Filipović (2015), Sara Žerić and David Žufić (2018-2019), Tin Celner (2023)

Student practice:
Mateo Dragičević, Ana Rebić, David Žufić (2016/17), Tin Celner (2022/23)

Erasmus+ Traineeship:
Iva Jelušić (CEU) (2018/19)
Nemanja Stanimirović (CEU) (2020/21)
Klemen Knez (University of Ljubljana) (2022/23)

Erasmus:
Marta Harasimowicz (Charles University, Prague, 2023/24)

V I S I T I N G   F E L L O W S   F R O M   2 0 2 5   ( C A L L )

Marta Harasimowicz (Charles University, Prague, April 2025)