Croatian Society III

Associate Professor Tado Jurić, IEP Teacher

Tado Jurić is an associate professor at the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb. He received his PhD at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany. His main research areas are migration from Croatia and Southeastern Europe, and forecasting migration and integration trends using digital demography and Big Data.

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Assistant Professor Lucija Mihaljević, IEP Teacher

Lucija Mihaljević, Ph.D., is employed at the Department of Communication at the Catholic University of Croatia. She graduated in 2007 from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus, specializing in philosophy and religious culture. In 2013, she obtained her doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb, specializing in ethnology and cultural anthropology. She worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Anthropology in Zagreb, taught at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb, served as an advisor to the dean and lecturer at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management, and worked as a secretary in the State Office for Croats Abroad. She has been the recipient of three scholarships (City of Zagreb, Adris Foundation, British Scholarship Trust) and has pursued further studies abroad at the universities of Southampton, Szeged, and Bolzano. As a member of the Commission, she participated in the initial accreditation process of several study programs. She has presented at multiple international scientific conferences, published papers in international journals, and edited two books. She has participated in several scientific and professional projects, including “Contemporary Transformation of Local Language Communities and Cultural Diversity” (196-1962766-2743), “Languages in a Network of European Excellence, EC FP6,” “Silver City University of Zagreb,” and “Women in Diplomacy, HDK.” Currently, she is a collaborator on the bilateral project “Isolated People and Communities in Slovenia and Croatia” (HRZZ – IP92022-02) from 2022 to 2025. At the undergraduate and graduate levels, she teaches courses in methodology and economic anthropology. In her research work, she is particularly interested in intercultural marketing and ethnographies of the internet.

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Assistant Professor Milica Mikecin, IEP Teacher

Milica Mikecin, assistant professor, external associate at the Department of History of the Catholic University of Croatia, where she teaches the subjects Croatian Literature in the European Context, History of the Croatian Literary Language, and Croatian Written Culture. She graduated in Croatian studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb and in librarianship at the Department of Information Sciences of the same Faculty. She obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Science in the interdisciplinary field of science, the scientific field of Croatology, at the Faculty of Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb, defending her doctoral thesis entitled The Influence of the Greek Language on the Lexicon of the Oldest Phase of the Croatian Redaction of the Old Slavonic Language.

Her areas of scientific interest are the history of the Croatian language and literature, especially medieval literature and the Old Slavonic language of the Croatian redaction. She is the author of several scientific and professional works in the aforementioned fields. She participated in presentations at several domestic and international scientific and professional meetings.

Anna Komarytsia, mag. philol., IEP Teacher

Anna Komarytsia teaches the Croatian language in the Integration-educational program. She is an assistant at the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb. In 2018, she graduated in Croatian and Ukrainian studies at the Slavonic Philology Department at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine). She is currently a graduate student in the same department at her home university. Also, she worked there as an assistant for a year. She participated in numerous scientific conferences and seminars during her studies. In 2019, she won the prize in the competition for students and doctoral students for the best scientific article in Slavic studies. She participated in the 44th Seminar of the Zagreb Slavic School in 2015 and after in several Erasmus+ projects. She translated several times at the Days of Croatia in Lviv and Ternopil. She was a translator for literary events related to Ukraine in Zagreb. After the war in Ukraine started, she volunteered in the program: “Let’s learn Croatian” from the Association for a Democratic Society for adult people from Ukraine.

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Matea Vidulić, mag. comm., IEP Teacher

Matea Vidulić, research assistant at the Department of Communication Sciences at the Catholic University of Croatia, where she received her master degree in 2020. Currently enrolled in PhD program at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb.

Her areas of scientific interest are philosophy of communication and semiotics.

She studies and promotes intercultural communication within the extracurricular activities for students (Book club and Intercultural workshops).

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