Dr. Silva MEŽNARIĆ

Research Adviser
silva.meznaric@imin.hr

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Academic Degrees:

- 1984 - Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Faculty of Social Sciences; thesis: "Internal Migration in Yugoslavia"
- 1972 - Chicago University, Department for Sociology; Graduate Course: Economy and Society
- 1969 - Case Western Reserve University, School for Applied Social Sciences, Cleveland; Course: Methods in Community Social Research; Field study: Montana (Montana Reformatory Schools)
- 1963 - University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law; Bachelor's Degree

Employment and Professional Experience:

- 1986– Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb
- 1984–1986 - free lanced author and researcher
- 1980–1983 - Center for the Studies in Self-Management, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Research Fellow
- 1973–1980 - Public Opinion Research Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Research Assistant
- 1968–1972 - Conference for Women, Group for Family Research, Zagreb; Research Fellow
- 1966–1968 - Institute for Social Research, Zagreb; Research Assistant
- 1964 –1966 - TAS "Prvomajska" (tool factory), Zagreb, Laboratory for Industrial Psychology; internship
Grants, scholarships, fellowships

- 2003 - Northwestern University, Consortium for Central and Southeast European Studies; Visiting Professor.
- 1999–2000 - Center for Policy Analysis, CEU, Budapest: Blue Bird Project – Social Inclusion Processes in SEE. Research Grant.
- 1993–1994 - Open Society Fund – Croatia: Violence in Eastern Europe in Transition: Croatia. Research Grant.
- 1993–1995 - Humanitarian Foundation Soros - Croatia: Data Base for Forced Migration, Refugees and Displaced People. Research Grant.
- 1991–1992 - University of Wisconsin at Madison, Department for Political Sciences, Fall 1991 and Claremont Colleges, Pitzer College, Department for Political Studies, Winter/Spring 1992. Fulbright Lecturer.
- 1984 - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution. Research Fellowship (January – September).
- 1978 - Akademia Nauki, Department for Applied Mathematics, Moscow. Coordinated Croatian and Slovene project on Multivariate Analysis Technics.
- 1972 - Chicago University, Department for Sociology, Graduate course: Economy and Sociology, prof. Berth Hoselitz, Spring Semester.
- 1969 - Case Western Reserve University, School for Applied Social Sciences, Cleveland, Spring and Summer.
- 1962 - Université de la Sorbonne (student exchange), Spring Semester.

Teaching

a) Continuing courses
- 1993–2003 - University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department for Sociology of Culture. Undegraduate Course: Methods in Social Research. Associate Professor.
- 1997–2003 - Interuniversity Centre Dubrovnik – IUC – Postgraduate Course: Divided Society. Organizing Director (1997–2002) and Co-Director of the Course.

b) Lecturing
- 2003 - Northwestern University, Department of Sociology, course: The Balkans – Societies, Cultures, Politics (Undegraduate, Spring Quarter). Associate Professor.
- 2002 - Centre for Women Studies, Zagreb, course: Gender and Social Exclusion. (Spring)
- 1991- Department for Political Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, course: Ethnic Conflict and Modernization in Eastern Europe (Undergraduate, Fall 1991). Lecturer.
- 1992 - Department for Political Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, courses: Political Construction of Ethnic and Gender Identity, and Eastern European Politics (Undergraduate, Spring). Lecturer.

Projects:

Head of the Research Projects

- 1993–1995 - Forced Migration, Refugees and Displaced People in Croatia: Data Base. HEG - Humanitarian Expert Group (NGO), Zagreb.
- 1991–1992 - Violence in Eastern Europe in Transition: Forced Migration in Croatia. Humanitarian Expert Group (NGO), Zagreb.
- 1991–1992 - Migration, Modernization, Ethnicity in Peripheral Croatia. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Zagreb.
- 1989–1991 - Brain Drain from Yugoslavia: Policy Implications. Institute Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb and Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Zagreb.
- 1987–1990 - Development and Migration: Internal Migration in Croatia after 1945. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Zagreb.
- 1984 - Consensus and Conflict in an Inter-Ethnic Space. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.
- 1982–1986 - Internal Migration in Yugoslavia: Bosnians in Slovenia. Field research. Center for the Studies in Self-Management, Ljubljana and Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana.
- 1981–1982 - Employment of Women in Slovenia. Center for the Studies in Self-Management, Ljubljana.
- 1976–1983 - Internal Migration in Yugoslavia: Immigration to Slovenia. University of Ljubljana and Center for the Studies in Self-Management, Ljubljana.
- 1974–1976 - Stratification and Mobility in Yugoslavia. Intergenerational Mobility, Slovenia and Macedonia; Regression Analysis. Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana.

Participation in

- 2007– - Transnational Migration – Challenges to Croatian Society. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb.
- 2002–2006 - Croatian Migrant Communities: Belonging and Multiculturalism. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb.
- 2002–2005 - The Correlates of War. Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Zagreb.
- 1996–2002 - Croatian Ethnic Development in a Comparative Perspective. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb.
- 1991–1995 - Croats in European Countries and Contemporary Migration. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Zagreb.
- 1989–1991 - Ethnic Conflicts in Contemporary World: The Case of Yugoslavia. Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Zagreb and UNRISD, Geneva.
- 1979–1983 - Slovenes: Changes of their Ethnic Identity. University of Ljubljana, Institute for
Sociology.
- 1973–1978 - Slovene Migrant Workers in Germany. Stratification, Mobility, Values. University of Ljubljana: Institute for Sociology; Public Opinion Research Centre.

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