Alumni spotlights

Vladimir Baranov

May 26, 2015

Vladimir Baranov is a part-time lecturer of art history at Novosibirsk State University (Department of the History of Culture); his research focuses on problems related to the Byzantine Iconoclasm. He also works as art-therapist at the pediatric unit of the Hospital at the Institute of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine. Since February (2013) he is the father of nine children: a daughter and eight sons.

Zara Pogossian

May 26, 2015

In December 2019 Zara Pogossian was awarded a prestigious 2019 European Research Center (ERC) Consolidator Grant. Her project seeks to establish a new framework for studying the Caucasus, Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia (CAM) between the 9th to 14th centuries.

Zoran Ladić

May 26, 2015

Zoran Ladić graduated in the Medieval Studies PhD program in 2002. From 1989 he is employed as assistant-research fellow at the Department for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, where his current position is research coordinator. The field of his professional interest is medieval and early modern Croatian and European history, in particular the aspects of everyday life, social and religious history of the medieval and early modern Istrian and Dalmatian communes.

Zrinka Nikolić Jakus

May 26, 2015

Zrinka Nikolić Jakus (ex Zrinka Nikolić) defended her PhD on formation of Dalmatian urban nobility in 2004. Her current position is Associate Professor at Department of History (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) at University of Zagreb where she teaches courses on Croatian medieval history, family, women, and nobility. She published a monograph Rođaci i bližnji: dalmatinsko gradsko plemstvo u ranom srednjem vijeku (Kith and kin: Dalmatian urban nobility in the Early Middle Ages) (Zagreb, 2003), and various articles, and still hopes to publish one day her PhD.