GENERAL INFORMATION
Date of birth: February 19th, 1981, Bjelovar.
Contact: dbirt@unizd.hr
TEACHING OBLIGATIONS:
Undergraduate study:
Croatian Ethnography
History of Croatian Ethnology
Anthropology of Family and Kinship
Seminar in Ethnology and Tourism
EDUCATION
1995 - 1999 Gymnasium, Bjelovar
1999 - 2005 Faculty of Humanities and Arts, University of Zagreb; MA Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, History
2007 – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb; doctoral study of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology,
specialization in Ethno cultural problems of Southeastern Europe module
2013 PhD thesis: Family, property and inheritance: continuity and change. Examples from Bjelovar region
EMPLOYMENT
2013 – Senior Research Assistant at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zadar
2006 - Assistant at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zadar
2005 – 2006 Researcher on 6th Framework-EU project on Kinship and Social Security
SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS
2003 – 2006: as student participated in the field research in the project Identity and Ethnogenesis of Primorski Bunjevci led by Associate professor Milana Černelić, PhD
2004 – 2005: as student particaped in field research in the international project Political Places in Change, dijelu šireg međunarodnog projekta The Politics and Poetics of Place: the Actualization of Myth, Memory and Monuments in the Modern Context led by the Department for Cultural Studies and History of Art, University of Bergen, Norway
2005 – 2006: as a researcher participated in the 6th Framework - EU projekt Kinship and Social Security (koordinator: Dr. Patrick Heady
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany)
2011 - 2014: EU funded project ''Jankovic Castle: historic site, generating sustainable development of the Ravni Kotari region''
MEMBERSHIP AND DUTIES
Member of Croatian Ethnological Society. InASEA (International Association for Southeast European Anthropology). Member of the board of student's organisation ANTROPOP.
AWARDS
2005 Dean’s Award ''Franjo Marković''. Faculty of Humanities and Arts, University of Zagreb.