Full Professor
Department of History Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb
Address: Ul. Ivana Lučića 3 10000 Zagreb, CROATIA
Email: tvrtko.jakovina@ffzg.unizg.hr

Tvrtko Jakovina is tenured professor, former head of the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He is currently head of the Doctoral School in Modern and Contemporary Croatian History in European and World Context.

Jakovina wrote the following books: „Socialism on the American Grain“ /Socijalizam na američkoj pšenici/ (2002), „The American Communist Ally. Croats, Tito’s Yugoslavia and the United States 1945-1955“ /Američki komunistički saveznik; Hrvati, Titova Jugoslavija i Sjedinjene Američke Države 1945-1955/“ (2003), “The Third Side of The Cold War” /Treća strana Hladnog rata/ (2011), “Moments of Catharsis. Breaking Events in XXth Century” / Trenuci katarze. Prijelomni događaji XX stoljeća/ (2013) and “Budimir Lončar. From Preko to the Top of the World” /Budimir Lončar. Od Preka do vrha svijeta/ (2020), World with no Chatarsis /Svijet bez katarze/ (2023).

Jakovina has edited volumes: “Croatian Spring – 40 years Later” /Hrvatsko proljeće, četrdeset godina poslije” (editor, 2012), and “25Years of Croatian Independence – What is Next?” /25 godina hrvatske neovisnosti – kako dalje?” (editor, 2017) and The Tito-Stalin Split 70 Years After (with Martin Previšić; FFZG and FF Ljubljana, 2020). Kakva Hrvatska? Miko Tripalo (1926-1995), (Zagreb, 2024).

He is author of many articles dealing with foreign policy of Tito’s Yugoslavia and Croatian history in 20th century.

Jakovina is lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Zagreb and adjunct professor in MIREES, University of Bologna, Italy. Previously, he was visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.

Jakovina has given lectures at different universities in Poland, Finland, Slovakia, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Indonesia, Peoples Republic of China, the USA, Montenegro, Slovenia, Italy etc. 

In 2010 Jakovina became member of the Council for Foreign Policy and International Relations of the Croatian President Ivo Josipović. He is secretary of the Croatian Fulbright Alumni Association,  member of the Board of the Croatian-American Association, Management Board president of the Center for Democracy and Law “Miko Tripalo” and member of several editorial boards. From 2023. Jakovina is columnist for portal “Telegram”. From 2013 to 2016 he was anchor of Croatian Television show Treća povijest/”Third History”. He wrote for other newspapers as “Vjesnik”, “Jutarnji list”, weekly “Globus” etc.

Tvrtko Jakovina studied at several universities in the United States (University of Kansas, was Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Georgetown University). He obtained MA in American Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and Ph.D. from the University of Zagreb (in 2002).

Complete bibliography: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/5557