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.