Associate Professor
Department of Sociology Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb
Address: Ul. Ivana Lučića 3 10000 Zagreb, CROATIA
Email: kzazar@m.ffzg.hr

Krešimir Žažar is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and Senior Research Fellow at the Kazimieras Simonavičius University in Vilnius, Lithuania. His research interests encompass epistemology of social sciences, social theory, social change, and more recently sociology of borders in the spotlight of his research interests. He nurtures a certain eclectic approach in doing social theory by combining conceptual elements of different theoretical traditions in examining wide spectrum of contemporary social phenomena. He was the secretary of the “Croatian Sociological Society” from 2011 to 2013. As of 2019 and 2021, respectively, he has been a member of the steering committee of the organization International Social Theory Consortium as well as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association. Prof. Žažar has co-published three monographs and around 30 academic articles. Since 2025 he is associate editor of “Kybernetes” peer-reviewed scientific journal (ISSN: 0368-492X eISSN: 1758-7883), in the same year he was elected as the member of Presidency of Croatian Sociological Association, as well as for the vice-president of Balkan Sociological Forum for the term 2025-2027.

Complete bibliography: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/27944