Work Experience:

April 1st 2024 – Senior scientific associate, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb
2023 – 31st March 2024. Senior scientific associate. Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb.
2013 – 2023. Scientific associate. Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb.
2006 – 2013. Research assistant. Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb.
2001 – 2006. Curator. Ethnographic museum of Istria/Museo Etnografico dell’ Istria, Pazin.

Scientific and professional work:

Project leader
April 1st 2023. – March 31st 2024. Principal Investigator (Croatia).“Impact of global insecurities on strengthening of movements for food sovereignty in Croatia and Slovenia“(SLOHRanA). Bilateral project of scientific and technological cooperation between Republic of Croatia and Republic of Slovenia. Ministry of science and Education, Republic of Croatia.
2020 – 2024. Principal Investigator.Solidarity economy in Croatia: anthropological perspective (SOLIDARan), Croatian Science Foundation.
2017-2018. Team leader. Program of the Popularization of Science – Popularization of Cultural-Anthropological Research of Gorski kotar (GORan). Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia.
2014-2015. Team leader. Program of the Popularization of Science – Anthropology (AntroPOP). Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.
January 1st 2024. – 31st March 2024. Principal Investigator. Multilevel Sustainability as a Prerequisite for Health and Wellbeing (SUSTAINWELL). Institute for Anthropological Research, Scientific program: long-term research, project topics and groups – projects funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026 – EU: NextGenerationEU

Project collaboration
2024. – 2027. Project collaborator. Island Ethnographies – Island Heritage and Environmental Futures as Drivers of Island Community Development (BAŠOTOK), Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Scientific program: long-term research, project topics and groups – projects funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026 – EU: NextGenerationEU, Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Research
2024- 2027. Project collaborator. Infrapolitical Practices and Changes: From the 1990s to Lived Futures (INFRA), Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Scientific program: long-term research, project topics and groups – projects funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026 – EU: NextGenerationEU,
April 1st 2024. – 2027. Project collaborator. Multilevel Sustainability as a Prerequisite for Health and Wellbeing (SUSTAINWELL), Institute for Anthropological Research, Scientific program: long-term research, project topics and groups – projects funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026 – EU: NextGenerationEU, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research
April 1st 2024– March 31st 2025. Project collaborator “Impact of global insecurities on strengthening of movements for food sovereignty in Croatia and Slovenia“(SLOHRanA). Bilateral project of scientific and technological cooperation between Republic of Croatia and Republic of Slovenia. Ministry of science and Education, Republic of Croatia.
December 5th 2022. – January 2023. Project collaborator. Students’ market: „(Sales) Stand- application toward the rural development – research of interest in using mobile applications in the sale of agricultural products among the student population“ (ŠTAND – AP). National rural network.
5th November 2020 – 15th February 2021. Project collaborator „Bottom-up model of establishment of short-supply chains on the example of Istrian Solidary ecological groups“, in the framework of the project „Analysis of institutional support in establishing of short supply chains (bottom-up and top down models)“ (IPPO_KLO). National Rural Network, Rural Development Programme of the Republic of Croatia for the period 2014-2020.
2019. – 2021. Member of COST Action (working group 3 and 4). From Sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy. CA16121, European Commission.
2017. Project collaborator in conducting field research. Integrated GWAS and EWAS of Cardiometabolic Traits in an Island Population. National Institutes of Health.
2014-2018. Project collaborator. Historical Perspectives on Transnationalism and Intercultural Dialogue in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (TIDA). Croatian Science Foundation.
2014-2015. Project collaborator. Historical Perspectives on Transnationalism and Intercultural Dialogue in the Multilingual Adriatic Littoral (VIZA). Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.
2007 – 2013. Project collaborator. Contemporary Transformation of Local Linguistic Communities and Cultural Diversity. Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia..
2006 – 2010. Project collaborator. Languages in a Network of European Excellence (LINEE), FP6—28388, European Comission
2007 – 2008. Project collaborator. The Status of Croatians in Macedonia and Macedonians in Croatia, Ethno-Cultural Identity: Current Situation and Perspectives (MACRO). Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.
2022 . Author of the part of the new permanent exhibition of the Ethnographic Museum of Istria/ Museo Etnografico dell’ Istria, Pazin
2001 – 2004. „Weaving in Istria“, Textile Handicraft in Istria Research project, part of Textile Handicraft in Croatia Research project

Awards
2017. 2nd Place Award of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) for the poster and poster presentation (Orlić, Olga; Iveković Martinis, Anja; Mavrinac, Duga; Sujoldžić, Anita. „The city as we know it: Societies for Beautification of Urban Environments on the Austro-Hungarian Adriatic Coast)“ at conference Natures in Between – Environments in areas of contact among states, economic systems, cultures and religions (28th June – 2nd July 2017, Zagreb).
2005. “Milovan Gavazzi” Annual Award of the Croatian Ethnological Society for the best ethnographic exhibition (“Weavers in Istria”) in 2004.

Committees, Boards and Working Groups:
2023. – 2025. President. Croatian Ethnological Society
2018 – Member of the Editorial Board. Etnološka istraživanja / Ethnological Researches. The Journal of the Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb
2008 – 2022. Member of the Editorial Board. Etnološka tribina / Ethnological Forum. The Journal of the Croatian Ethnological Society
2008 – 2012. Organizer. Club of the Croatian Ethnological Society
Memberships in Professional Organizations and Associations:
Croatian Ethnological Society (HED), Croatian Anthropological Society (HAD), International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)

Research Interests: sustainability, solidarity economy, community-supported agriculture, rural development, infrapolitics, island studies, identity and identification processes, cultural and linguistic diversity, stereotypes/stereotypization, tourism, cultural tourism, intercultural dialogue, acculturation processes in the past and present, politics of multiculturalism.

List of Publications