Sen. Scientist Dr. Vedran Duančić
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Research interests (Forschungsschwerpunkte)
I am a historian specializing in modern intellectual history and history of science, with a particular interest in the intersection of science and politics. I have extensively written on the history of geography in Yugoslavia and, wider, East Central Europe in the first half of the 20th century, especially its involvement in nation-building projects. More recently my research interests have shifted to the post-1945, socialist period. I have published on science popularization and the history of biology, including the reception of Lysenko’s ideas, in early socialist Yugoslavia, and I am currently researching the history of scientific and medical cooperation during the Cold War, exploring the history of SMT at the “periphery.”
- Contemporary history
- European history
- Global history
- History of biology
- History of geography
- History of medicine
- History of science
Education
PhD, European University Institute, Florence (2016)
MA, Central European University, Budapest (2011)
BA, University of Zagreb (2009)
Monograph
Duančić, Vedran. Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Duančić, Vedran. Geografija kao sudbina: Geografija i nacionalističke vizije međuratne Jugoslavije. Trans. Mirjana Markovinović. Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 2023. [Croatian translation.]
Papers and book chapters
Krizmanics, Réka, and Vedran Duančić. “Introduction: Eager to (Let) Know: KnowledgeProduction and Dissemination in State Socialist Eastern Europe.” European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 30, no. 2 (2023): 143–156.
Duančić, Vedran, Snježana Ivčić, and Ana Vračar. “The Failed Promises of a Brighter Future: TheInstitute of Immunology in Zagreb from a Public Asset to a Privatized Burden.” In Immunization and States: The Politics of Making Vaccines, ed. Stuart Blume and Baptiste Baylac-Paouly, 89–109. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Duančić, Vedran. “Recent Trends in the History of Science in Croatia.” Centaurus: An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects 63, no. 3 (2021): 553–568.
Duančić, Vedran. “Mapping the Uncertain: Difficulties with Establishing the Ethnic Bordersin Interwar Yugoslavia.” In Boundariesand Borders in Post-Yugoslav Space: A European Experience, ed. Nenad Stefanov and Srdjan Radović, 125–141. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
Duančić, Vedran. “Lysenko in Yugoslavia, 1945–1950s: How to de-Stalinize a Stalinist Science.” Journal of the History of Biology 53, no. 1 (2020): 159–194.
Duančić, Vedran. “Prostorne perspektive i izazov ispreplitanja u povijesti znanosti” [Spatial perspective and the challenge ofentanglement in the history of science and knowledge]. Radovi Zavoda za hrvatsku povijest Filozofskogfakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu 52, no. 1 (2020): 37–54.
Duančić, Vedran. “Learning About Politics Through Science: Popular Science in Early Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945–1950.” Historyka: Studia Metodologiczne 49, no. 1 (2019): 55–76.
Duančić, Vedran. “Nationalist Geographies in Interwar Yugoslavia: Manoeuvring Between National and Transnational Spaces.” European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 25, no. 3–4 (2018): 588–611.
Duančić, Vedran. “Geographical Narration of Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian Perspective, 1918 to the mid-1920s.” East Central Europe 43, no. 1–2 (2016): 188–214.
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