Ivan Majnarić
Born in 1980 in Zagreb, he graduated with a degree in History from the University of Zagreb in 2002 and went on to earn a Master’s in Historical Sciences in 2007. He completed his PhD in Historical Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, in 2012, with a thesis on Croatian nobility in the second half of the 14th and the first half of the 15th century.
Since 2012, he has been a faculty member at the Department of History at the Catholic University of Croatia, and in 2024, he was promoted to Full Professor. Prior to his academic career, he worked as an archivist associate at the Croatian State Archives from 2004 to 2006 and as a lexicographical associate and lexicographer at the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute, where he contributed to the editorial team of the Croatian Biographical Lexicon from 2006 to 2012.
In 2018, he was honored with the Croatian National Science Awards, Annual Science Award.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
His research focuses on topics related to medieval social and church history, intellectual history, the publication of archival sources, and biobibliographical reviews.
COURSES:
Medieval Societies (2014-present)
Cartographic Sources (2013-present)
Introduction to Academic Study (2018-present)
History of Middle Ages (2021-present)
Historical Workshop (2021-present)
Croatian Middle Ages (2014-2018)
Introduction to the Middle Ages (2014-2021)
Diplomatic Seminar I (2014-2016)
Croatian Contributions to Other Cultures (2013-2014)
Medieval Philosophy (2017-2019)
PROJECTS:
2020.-2025. Topografija vlasti: istočnojadranski gradovi u srednjovjekovnim prostorima vlasti [Topography of Power: Eastern Adriatic Cities in Medieval Spheres of Power], TOPOS, IP-2019-04-2055; projekt financira Hrvatska zaklada za znanost; suradnik.
2020.-2024. Anžuvinski archiregnum u srednjoistočnoj i jugoistočnoj Europi u 14. stoljeću: pogled s periferije [Angevin Archiregnum in East Central and Southeastern Europe in the 14th Century: View from the Periphery], AAPSP, IP-2019-04-9315; projekt financira Hrvatska zaklada za znanost; suradnik.
2019.-2021. Obitelj kroz povijest – iskazi i nositelji identiteta društava središnje i sjeverozapadne Hrvatske od kasnog srednjeg vijeka do modernog doba [Family through History – Expressions and Bearers of Social Identities in Central and Northwestern Croatia from the Late Middle Ages to the Modern period], HKS-2019-2; projekt financiran sredstvima Hrvatskoga katoličkog sveučilišta; voditelj.
2017. Drugost kao društvena i kulturna odrednica hrvatske prošlosti [Otherness as a social and cultural determinant of Croatian history], HKS-2017-7; projekt financiran sredstvima Hrvatskoga katoličkog sveučilišta; suradnik
Percepcije hrvatskih, slavonskih i dalmatinskih elita u kasnom srednjem i ranom novom vijeku [Perceptions of Croatian, Slavonian and Dalmatian elites in medieval and early modern period], HKS-2017-6; projekt financiran sredstvima Hrvatskoga katoličkog sveučilišta; suradnik
2016. Porijeklo, strukture i percepcije društvenih elita hrvatskoga srednjeg i ranog novog vijeka [Origins, Structures and Cultural Perceptions of Social Elites in Croatia in the Middle and Early Modern Ages], HKS-2016-1; projekt financiran sredstvima Hrvatskoga katoličkog sveučilišta; suradnik
2008.-13. Hrvatska biobibliografska baština [Croatian Bio-bibliographical Heritage], 075-0000000-3373; znanstveni projekt financiran sredstvima Ministarstva znanosti, obrazovanja i sporta; suradnik