Vlatko Smiljanić

undergraduate

• 19th and 20th Century Croatian Historiography (38055) - Lecturer in charge
• Croatian Cultural and Political History of the 18th and 19th Centuries (37448) - Lecturer in charge
• Croatian Cultural and Political History of the 20th Century (37456) - Lecturer in charge
• Croatian National Rulers (248673) - Lecturer in charge
• Croatian Social and Cultural History from the19 th Century to the present day (188007) - Lecturer in charge
• Institutions of the Croatian people, society and the state (188079) - Lecturer in charge
• Vlachs in European and Croatian culture (284989) - Lecturer in charge

graduate

• Archivistics for historians (202954) - Lecturer in charge
• Historical Cartography of Croatian countries (270161) - Lecturer in charge
• History of Christianity in Croatia (270166) - Lecturer in charge
• Local History (285824) - Lecturer in charge

doctoral

• Historiography, Ideology, and Collective Memory (260848) - Lecturer in charge

Assist. Prof. Vlatko Smiljanić, PhD is a university teacher and scientist at the Department of Croatology and the Department of History and vice-dean for business affairs at the Faculty of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb. He is the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Kroatologija (a1/a2).

He was born on July 7, 1995 in Virovitica, where he attended elementary school and high school. He completed his History studies at the Faculty of Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb in 2020. During his studies, he was a student-demonstrator, holder of a scholarship for the excellence of the Virovitica-Podravina County and winner of student awards such as the Rector's Award (2020), Dean's Award (2020), Principal's Award (2018) and several Principal's awards. He is the author of two books and co-author of one book, as well as several editorial books and collections of scientific papers in the field of Croatology and history. Also, he often contributes to scientific and professional works on historical and Croatian topics. He obtained the academic title of Doctor of Science in 2023 by defending his doctoral thesis The Life and Works of Mirko Danijel Bogdanić from 1760 to 1802 under the mentorship of academician Stjepan Ćosić with the highest grade (summa cum laude).

From 2020 to 2024, he worked as an expert associate in the field of history at the Scientific Institute, after which on April 15, 2024, he was employed as an assistant professor at the Department of Croatian Studies, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb.

From July 9, 2024, to September 30, 2025, he served as Assistant to the Rector and Acting Vice Dean for Business Affairs, and from November 1, 2024, he was appointed Acting Vice Dean for Business Affairs at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb. Since October 1, 2025, he has been appointed Vice Dean for Business Affairs for a three-year term.

As of June 1, 2025, he has been appointed Director of the King Sejong Institute in Zagreb, a center for Korean language and culture.

• Identification number of the scientist 405162
• Croatian Research Information System (CroRIS)
• Google Scholar
• ORCID 0000-0001-9835-0591
• Scopus Author ID 57202045211
• Web of Science Researcher ID HLX-6047-2023

Selected Books

• Vlatko Smiljanić, Singulare ingenium. Mirko Danijel Bogdanić (1760–1802): Life, Work, Era, FF Press and Centre for Comparative-Historical and Intercultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, 2025. – forthcoming.

• Igor Omerza (ed. Vlatko Smiljanić), The Slovenian UDBA and the Bleiburg Guard of Honour, Bleiburg Guard of Honour, Zagreb, 2025. ISBN 9789537379056.

• Stjepan Ćosić, Đuro Horvat, Josip Plavšić, Vlatko Smiljanić, Veronika Tomljenović, Martin Vuković, Cerna from Its First Mention to the Present, 1244–2021, Municipality of Cerna, Cerna, 2021. ISBN 9789538282263.

• (ed.) Vlatko Smiljanić, Lucius: Proceedings of the Society of History Students “Ivan Lučić – Lucius”, Year XVI, Volume 23, Society of History Students "Ivan Lučić – Lucius", Zagreb, 2021. ISSN 1333-6185.

• (eds.) Vlatka Vukelić, Mijo Beljo, Vlatko Smiljanić, The Historical Development of Applied Psychology in Croatia During the First Half of the 20th Century: The Vocational Guidance Office in Zagreb (1931–1948), Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, 2020. ISBN 9789538349058.

• (eds.) Vlatka Vukelić, Mijo Beljo, Vlatko Smiljanić, 1918–2018: Historical Controversies and Croatia Today – Conference Proceedings, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, 2020. ISBN 9789537823962.

• Vlatko Smiljanić, Čaruga: The Biography of the Slavonian Outlaw Jovan Stanisavljević (1897–1925), Despot Infinitus, Zagreb, 2020. ISBN 9789538218439.

• (ed.) Vlatko Smiljanić, Collected Works of Mara Matočec, Despot Infinitus, Zagreb, 2017. ISBN 9789537892807.

• Vlatko Smiljanić, Mara Matočec: Croatian Writer, Educational-Cultural Activist and Politician, Self-published, Virovitica, 2010. ISBN 9789535637127.

Selected Articles

• Vlatko Smiljanić, Bruno Šagi, “Who Killed Stjepan Radić? Interpretations and the Culture of Memory,” Historijska misao, 2025. (accepted for publication).

• Vlatko Smiljanić, “Croatology: Development, Methods, and Public Opinion,” Hum, 20(33), 2025, pp. 7–23.

• Alojz Jembrih, Vlatko Smiljanić, “The Linguistic Image of Tomo Maretić in Letters to Vatroslav Jagić,” Kroatologija, 16(1), 2025, pp. 7–32.

• Vlatko Smiljanić, “A History of the Croatian Committee on Ethics in Science and Higher Education from 2014 to 2018,” Synthesis philosophica, 38(2), 2023, pp. 401–420.

• Vlatko Smiljanić, Danijel Jurković, “Mass Executions of Political Opponents by the Communist Regime in the Virovitica District After World War II,” in: Vladimir Šumanović, Vlatka Vukelić, Danijel Jurković (eds.), Communist Crimes I – Conference Proceedings, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, 2023, pp. 27–44.

• Veronika Novoselac, Vlatko Smiljanić, “»Do Not Rush Like Geese into Fog!«. A Critical Analysis of a Political Leader's Speech: Stjepan Radić's Address of November 24/25, 1918, in the National Council,” Nova prisutnost, 21(2), 2023, pp. 337–351.

• Vlatko Smiljanić, “The History of Defamation Against Integrative Bioethics,” Filozofska istraživanja, 167(3), 2022, pp. 561–578.

• Vlatko Smiljanić, Danijel Jurković, “Echoes of the Croatian Spring in Virovitica in 1971 and 1972,” Papers of the Institute of Croatian History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 54(2), 2022, pp. 265–283.

• Danijel Jurković, Vlatko Smiljanić, “The Effects of the Croatian Spring on Politics and Society in Koprivnica,” Podravina: Journal for Multidisciplinary Research in Geography and History, 21(41), 2022, pp. 180–194.

• Katarina Dadić, Ružica Bešlić-Grbešić, Vlatko Smiljanić, “Consideration of the Child's Image in Historical and Social Context in the Modern Consumptive Society of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Nova prisutnost, 19(2), 2021, pp. 359–370.

• Vlatka Vukelić, Vlatko Smiljanić, “The Vocational Guidance Office in Zagreb Between Three State-Legal Transformations of Croatia (1939–1941–1945),” in: Vukelić, V., Beljo, M., Smiljanić, V. (eds.), The Historical Development of Applied Psychology in Croatia (1931–1948), Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, 2020, pp. 13–49.

• Katarina Dadić, Vlatko Smiljanić, “Education in the Noble Boarding School in Zagreb from 1852 to 1914,” Obnovljeni Život, 75(4), 2020, pp. 521–535.

• Vlatko Smiljanić, “Mara Matočec and the Emigrant Croatian Peasant Party (HSS),” in: Marin Sopta, Vlatka Lemić, Marija Benić-Penava (eds.), History of Croatian Political Emigration in the 20th Century – Proceedings of the International Conference, Centre for Research of Croatian Emigration, 2020, pp. 277–285.

• Vlatko Smiljanić, “Educational Culture in Croatia During World War II in Light of Documents of Conflicting Parties,” Kroatologija, 10(2), 2019, pp. 19–46.

• Vlatko Smiljanić, “Mara Matočec's Literary Work from 1945 to 1967,” Kroatologija, 10(1), 2019, pp. 89–111.

• Vlatko Smiljanić, “The Significance of Ljudevit Modec in the History of Croatian Pedagogy,” Cris, 21, 2019, pp. 113–126.

• Vlatko Smiljanić, “Key Military-Political Relations and Events in the Gacko District During the Second Half of 1942,” Stolačko kulturno proljeće, 16, 2018, pp. 103–114.

• Dejan Pernjak, Vlatko Smiljanić, “Tracing the Pauline Order in Špišić Bukovica: Ordo fratrum S. Pauli primi eremitae in Bakwa Inferior,” Croatica Christiana periodica, 42, 2017, pp. 17–29.

• 2024 Dean's Award to Meritorious Teachers for Scientific and Teaching Work
• 2024 Faculty Award for scientific work of high international visibility published in 2023
• 2020 Dean's Award - the best student in the final year of graduate studies
• 2019 Rector's Award for individual scientific work
• 2019 Dean's Acknowledgment for the academic year 2017/2018
• 2018 Dean's Award - the best student in the final year of undergraduate studies
• 2018 Dean's Acknowledgment for the academic year 2016/2017
• 2017 Dean's Acknowledgment for the academic year 2015/2016

Professional interests

•      Croatian modern and contemporary history
•      Croatology
•      history and culture of science and education
•      history and culture of Virovitica (place-based/local history)

Memberships

•      Croatian academic community
•      Croatian National Committee for Historical Sciences
•      Croatian Pan-European Union
•      Matrix Croatica
•      Native society of Virovitica in Zagreb
•      Society for Croatian history
•      The Society of University Professors and other Scientists in Zagreb

• 2025 - 2028 Institutional research project "Climate change and security challenges" (leader: Assoc. Prof.  Andreja Sršen), member of the research team

• 2025 - 2028 Institutional research project "Perception and ways of presenting history in modern and contemporary culture" (leader: Prof. Mladen Tomorad), member of the research team

• 2025 International scientific and professional conference "Croatian Language and Culture Abroad: A Look into the Past, Present, and Future", Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Macquarie University, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, University of Pécs, Universität Regensburg, Croatian Catholic University, University of São Paulo, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Croatian Heritage Foundation, York University, 3-4 November 2025 (member of the Organizing Committee) - in progress
• 2024 International Scientific Conference "Intellectual History and Croatian Historiography: State and Perspectives II", Faculty of Croatian Studies, Zagreb, December 13, 2024 (member of the Organizing Committee)
• 2024 Scientific and expert's Conference "Virovitica 1234 - 2024: Church, culture, society, heritage - selected topics", Virovitica Franciscan Monastery, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Institute of Social Sciences "Ivo Pilar", Croatian Catholic University, Croatian Institute for History - Branch for the History of Slavonia, Baranja and Srijem, 21-22 November 2024 (Chairman of the Organizing Committee)
• 2024 International Scientific Conference "The Importance of European Memory for the European Future: Communist Crimes III", Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Lietuvos istorijos institutas, 20-21 June 2024 (member of the Organizing Committee)
• 2023 Institutional project "Digitalization of documentation-archival materials of the Croatian studies" (coordinator)
• 2023 Institutional scientific project "Humanist in an inhumane age - life and works of Don Filip Lukas 1871 - 1958", Department of History and Research Institute (member of the project)
• 2023 Scientific manifestation and scientific conference with international participation "Ante Starčević: figure - deed - historiography", Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatian State Archives, Center for Comparative History and Intercultural Studies, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Miroslav Krleža Lexicography Institute, Matrix Croatica, Research Institute of the Faculty of Croatian Studies, May 25 and 26, 2023 (member of the Preparatory Committee)
• 2022 International Scientific Conference "Intellectual History and Croatian Historiography: Status and Perspectives", Faculty of Croatian Studies, Zagreb, December 15, 2022 (member of the Organizing Committee)
• 2020. Scientific Conference "The importance of European memory for the European future: communist war crimes", Faculty of Croatian Studies, Zagreb, June 19, 2020 (member of the Organizing Committee)
• 2018 - 2020. Scientific project "Historical development of applied psychology in Croatia - Work of the Counseling Center/Institute for choosing a profession from 1931 to 1948." (young researcher)
• 2018 Scientific Conference "1918-2018: Historical Controversies and Croatia Today", Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, October 29, 2018 (Member of the Organizing Committee)