Dunja Brozović Rončević

CURRENT POSITION

Since Octobre 2013

Head of the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

Since January 2014

Head of the Adriatic Onomastic Research Center

 

PERSONAL DATA

Date of Birth: July 23, 1960, Zadar, Croatia

E-mail: dunjabr@gmail.com

               dbrozovic@unizd.hr

Courses:

Undergraduate Studies:

–         Introduction to Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

–         Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

–         Mediterranean Studies

–         Non-European cultures

Graduate Studies:

–         Ethnolingustic contacts in Croatia and Europe

–         The Making of the Name

 

EDUCATION

1997   Ph.D. Department of Linguistics, University of Zagreb

            PhD thesis: Appellatives in Croatian hydronymy (mentor Akad. Petar Šimunović)

1991 – 1992  Research fellowship, Harvard University, MA, USA

                        Department of Slavic Studies; Department of Near Eastern Studies

1990 – 1991  Research fellowship, Istituto di Glottologia, Universtà di Padova, Italy

1987               M.A. in Linguistics, Slavic Studies, Philological Faculty, University of Belgrade

1983               B.A. Department of Linguistics and Oriental Studies, Department of Ethnology, University of Zagreb

POSITIONS HELD

Since 2007      President of the Croatian Committee for the European Linguistic Atlas

2003 – 2011    Director of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Zagreb

2003 – 2013  Head of the Department of Onomastics and Etymology of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Zagreb

Since 2010      Head of the Board of Onomastics of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

2007 – 2010    Vice-president of the Board of the National Foundation for Science

Since 2007      Member of the Board of the Croatian Society for Language Technologies

2005 – 2012    Member of The Croatian Standard Language Council at The Ministry of Science, Education and Sport

2005 – 2012    Member of the Executive board of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore

2004   – 2014  Associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Since 2004      Member of the Board of Onomastics, Board of Etymology, Board of Lexicography and Board of Dialectology of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

1984 – 2007    Linguistic Research Institute, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

2002 – 2007    member of the ICOS (International Council of Onomastic Sciences) Board of Directors

 

EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, MEMBERSHIPS

Since 2007      Editor-in-chief of the journal Folia onomastica Croatica (published by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

2004 –2012    Editor-in-chief of the journal Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje

1994 –2002    Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Folia onomastica Croatica (HAZU)

Since 2007       Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Filologija (published by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

Since 2006       Member of the Editorial Board of Onoma (international journal published by the International Council of Onomastic Sciences)

Member of the various professional organizations in linguistics and anthropology

Member of the Organizational board for more then 20 conferences in Croatia

Head organizer of five international conferences in linguistics

 

Scientific Projects

2007–2013   Program leader of the collaborate research program Croatian Language, Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics (12 projects)

2007–2013   Principal Investigator of the project Onomastic and Etymological Research of Croatian, Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

2005–           Croatian representative in the international project European Linguistic Atlas

2005–2007   PI of the project Croatian Language On-Line Repository, IHJJ

2002–2005   Tempus doctoral Project European Studies: Languages and Cultures in Contact, University of Zadar

Since 2001   Collaborator at the project European Linguistic Atlas & Slavic Linguistic Atlas at the Linguistic Research Institute, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

2001 – 2006  PI of the project Croatian Historical Toponymy, Linguistic Research Institute, HAZU

1996 – 2001  Collaborator at the project Onomastic Research in Croatia, Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

1991–1996    PI of the project Historical Dictionary of Croatia, Linguistic Research Institute, HAZU

 

POSTGRADUATE COURSES

University of Zagreb

                Onomastics at postgraduate studies in Linguistics

                Croatia and Europe in the context of names

                Croatian Historical Toponymy

University of Zadar

                European Studies : Languages and Cultures in Contact, University of Zadar (Tempus Project)

     Department of Ethnology and Anthropology

University of Rijeka

                Joint Doctoral Program: History and Diacletology of the Croatian Language