Kristina Puljizević
An Associate Professor at the University Department of History at the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb. She graduated in philosophy and history from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zadar and worked for 11 years as a history teacher in primary schools in Dubrovnik. In 2015, she completed her doctoral postgraduate studies in Population History in Dubrovnik — a joint program between the University of Dubrovnik and the University of Zagreb — by defending her dissertation titled "Childbirth in Dubrovnik 1815–1918."
In addition to her home institution, she also teaches as an external associate in the Undergraduate Study Program in the History of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean at the University of Dubrovnik.
SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Topics in the fields of social history of medicine, historical demography, history of women, and the history of epidemics related to Dubrovnik and Dalmatia in the 19th century.
COURSES:
19th Century History
Modernization and Society: Topics in Global History of the 19th Century
Dalmatian Society in the 19th Century
History of Epidemics, Medicine, and Society
PROJECTS:
Plurality of Actors in the Republic of Dubrovnik: Politics and Society, Institutions and Practice (Project Lead: Zdenka Janeković Roemer)
The Sanitary Cordon in Dalmatia, 18th and 19th Centuries (Project Lead: Maja Katušić)
Vernacular Medicine and Healing: Beliefs, Practices, Narrations (Project Lead: Luka Šešo)
