Drago Roksandić
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Drago Roksandić | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 January 1948[1] |
| Occupation | historian[2] |
Drago Roksandić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драго Роксандић; born 12 January 1948) is a Croatian historian and a former professor emeritus at the University of Zagreb. He was a full professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and served as the head of the Chair of the History of Central and Southeastern Europe.[3]
He was the leader of the Triplex Confinium international research project, focused on Croatia's borders in the Euro-Mediterranean context, which was founded in 1996, and the long-term cultural program Desničini susreti.[4] Roksandić has been involved in many influential research projects, including the Local Approaches to the Second World War in Southeastern Europe at Humboldt University in Berlin.[3] He has held various academic roles, including visiting lecturer at Yale University (1990), researcher at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest (1995–2002).[4] Roksandić has participated in over 200 conferences in more than 30 countries.[4]
Early life
Drago Roksandić was born on January 12, 1948 in Petrinja.[5] He attended elementary school in several cities, including Sisak and Zagreb, and later completed high school in Zagreb.[6]
Education
Drago Roksandić studied philosophy and sociology in Zagreb (1966–67) before completing a history degree in Belgrade in 1975.[1] He earned his doctorate in Zagreb in 1988 with a dissertation on the Military Frontier during the French Empire (1809–1813).[1]
Academic career
In 1978, he was appointed as an assistant at the Department of History of Yugoslav Peoples in the Modern Age at the University of Belgrade, and by 1980, he became an assistant at the same department.[6] Roksandić worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade until 1989, then as a docent at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (1990–96), becoming an associate professor in 1997 and a full professor in 2003.[1]
