EMPLOYEES

Ph. D. Vanda Babić Galić

Job Position: scientific advisor

Title: full professor

Contact

Email:

vanda.babic.galic@imin.hr

Biography

Academic education

  • 2017 – election to the title of full professor in the scientific field of humanities
  • 2009 – election to the title of associate professor in the scientific field of humanities
  • 2004 – election to the position of assistant professor in the scientific field of humanities
  • 2003 – PhD at the University of Zagreb, in the scientific field of humanities on the topic of the cultural and historical value of Vick Zmajević’s activities in Boka Kotorska and Zadar
  • 1997 – Master’s degree at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb on the topic Croatian medieval tradition in Boko Kotor Passion texts
  • 1992 – researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar
  • 1992 – graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar

Employment and professional experience

  • 2023. Institute for Migration and Nationalities
  • 2002. – 2023. Department of Croatian Studies (and Slavic Studies) of the University of Zadar
  • 1992. – 2002. Zadar Faculty of Philosophy

Scientific interest

Older Croatian literature, Croatian literature and culture of the Croats of Boka, Pag’s folk poetry, Croatian national minority in Europe, Croats in BiH, media theory and practice, Croatian-Montenegrin literary and cultural relations, history and theory of literature, interpretation of natural and cultural heritage and branding.

Projects

  • Head of the scientific project Oral-literary heritage of the Zadar area
  • Head of the project Croatian cities for Boka Croats
  • Collaborator on the scientific project Cultures in Touch: Croatian-Montenegrin Literary Identities
  • Head of the the Mapping the Croatian Minority in Europe project
  • Head of the Encyclopaedia of Boke Kotor project

Teaching activity

  • 1992. – 2002. Zadar Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Croatian and Slavic Studies
  • 2002 – 2023. Department of Croatian Studies, University of Zadar
  • 2009. – 2011. external associate at the Department of Culture and Tourism

Selected bibliography

More extensive bibliography:

https://www.bib.irb.hr:8443/pretraga?operators=and|Babi%C4%87%20Gali%C4%87,%20Vanda%20%2815478%29|text|profile

Prizes and awards

  • Annual award of the city of Novalja (2023)
  • Acknowledgment of the Croatian Council of Montenegro for promoting the preservation of the heritage of the Croats of Boka Kotor (2019)
  • Coat of arms of the city of Zadar (2019)
  • Plaque HKD Napredak Sarajevo for written literature and scientific word and publishing (2008)
  • Silver certificate of Matica Hrvatska for the book Radovan i Ljudmila by Bert K. Balabanić (2008)
  • Award for excellence in science from the Ministry of Education and Culture (2009)
  • Annual award of Zadar County (2006)

Memberships

  • Society of Croatian Writers
  • Croatian Society of Writers
  • Matica Croatian
  • The central administration of HKD Napredak Sarajevo
  • Croatian brotherhood of the Bokel navy in 809
  • Communities of Croats from Bokelje
  • PEN of Montenegro
  • Vice-president of the Croatian Cultural Center Zagreb

The rest

  • 2022. – President of the Initial Committee for the establishment of the Institute for Culture and Tradition of the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Napredak HQ in Sarajevo
  • 2018. – Expert for accreditation of study programs and reaccreditation of study programs at the Agency for Control and Quality Assurance of Higher Education in Montenegro
  • 2018./19. 2019./20. , 2020./21. – Member of the expert committee of the Ministry of Education and Culture for the assessment of experimental textbooks and experimental teaching aids for primary and secondary schools
  • From 2017. until today – She is a member of the editorial board of DHS (Faculty of Philosophy in Tuzla)
  • 2019. to date. – President of the Administrative Council of the Institute for the Croatian Language.
  • 2015. – 2019. – Member of the Administrative Council of the Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics
  • 2015. – Author of the script Bokeljski akord, performed at the 66th Dubrovnik Summer Games
  • 2008. – 2015. – Member of the editorial board of the Faculty of Montenegrin Language and Literature magazine Lingua Montenegrina
  • 2007. – 2015. – President of the Zadar County Council for Culture
  • 2001. – Co-author and screenwriter of the documentary film S Hrvatima Boke, HTV
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