Vjeran Pavlaković
Vjeran Pavlaković is a professor of History and Cultural Studies at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. He received his PhD in History in 2005 from the University of Washington and has published articles on memory politics in Southeastern Europe, transitional justice in the former Yugoslavia, and Yugoslav volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. He is a co-editor of the volume Framing the Nation and Collective Identity in Croatia (Routledge, 2019), which was re-issued in Croatian in 2022. He was the lead researcher on the Memoryscapes project as part of Rijeka’s European Capital of Culture in 2020, and a co-founder of the Cres Summer School on Transitional Justice and Memory Politics. Since 2023, he has been the co-principal investigator on the Slovenian-Croatian project Mnemonic Aesthetics and Strategies in Popular Culture (MEMPOP). His current research includes graffiti and murals as sites of memory, slow memory and Balkan conflicts, and a history of Dalmatian immigrants in the American Southwest.
