Tvrtko Jakovina

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Tvrtko Jakovina
Tvrtko Jakovina in front of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
Born (1972-03-02) 2 March 1972 (age 52)
Occupationhistorian[1]
AwardsAnnual 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 Croatian historian. Jakovina is a full time professor at the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb.[2][3]

Biography

Early life

Tvrtko Jakovina was born in the eastern Croatian town of

high school, and also completed his compulsory military service.[4]

Education

He studied history at the University of Zagreb from 1991 to 1996. Jakovina was the founder and first honorary member of the Croatian branch of

Holocaust in Israel.[4] He defended his PhD thesis at the University of Zagreb in 2002 which after publication received annual prize for young scientists in the fields of history and humanities.[5]

Academic career

Jakovina has presented many public lectures and attended many forums in Croatia and abroad.

detente.[8][9] His books received state prizes in 2004 and 2014, while he also received Kiklop book prize in 2013.[10] Jakovina is a coordinator of the postgraduate Diplomacy study program of the Faculty of Political Science and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.[10]

Publications

Books

Political and public engagement

Tvrtko Jakovina is a prominent public critic of the violent right-wing

Roma and other crimes against their opponents.[11][12][13]

Jakovina has signed the CIVICO Europa initiative against

autocratic policies in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary.[14] The initiative was signed by 73 European personalities including Jean-Claude Juncker, Carl Bildt, Slavoj Žižek and from Croatia alongside Jakovina also Miljenko Jergović, Vesna Pusić, Seid Serdarević and Željko Trkanjec.[14]

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