Luka Šešo
Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Croatia, where he also worked at the Department of Sociology (2012–2024). Previously, he was employed at the Institute of Ethnology of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2002–2012) and the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research. He earned his degree in ethnology and history, his master’s in history, and his PhD in ethnology and cultural anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
He conducted academic training at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA (2015). He has published around thirty scholarly papers in national and international journals and edited volumes. He is the author of two scholarly monographs and two edited volumes on traditional beliefs and historical anthropology. He has held numerous lectures in Croatia and abroad. In 2023, he received a teaching excellence award from the Catholic University of Croatia and two “Milovan Gavazzi” awards from the Croatian Ethnological Society (2010, 2023).
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Anthropology of religion, mythology, traditional culture and beliefs, historical anthropology, marginal groups throughout history
COURSES:
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
History of Everyday Life
Cultural History
Mythical Beings of Traditional Beliefs
Croatian Traditional Culture and Identity Formation
Globalization and Religion
Cultures of Capitalism in Europe
Traditional and Popular Culture
PROJECTS:
Project manager:
2025 – present – Folk Medicine and Healing: Beliefs, Practices, Narratives – Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb
2017 – 2018 – Otherness as a Social and Cultural Determinant of Croatian History – Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb
2013 – 2015 – Interdisciplinary Research of Small Urban Communities: Samobor One Hundred Years After Milan Lang – Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb
Project Researcher:
2025 – present – Posthumanism and Deep Ecology in Indigenous Eco-Ontologies – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
2017 – 2021 – Narrations of Fear: From Old Inscriptions to New Orality – Croatian Science Foundation
2010 – 2012 – Cultural History of Ottoman Bosnia: Interculturality in a Divided Society – Ministry of Science, Education and Sports
2002 – 2010 – Ethnological and Folklore Materials of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts: Preservation and Critical Publication – Ministry of Science, Education and Sports
