Silva MEŽNARIĆ, Ph.D.

• 1983 - Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Faculty of Social Sciences; thesis: "Internal Migration in Yugoslavia"
• 1972 - Chicago University, Department for Sociology; Graduate Course: Economy and Society
• 1969 - Case Western Reserve University, School for Applied Social Sciences, Cleveland; Course: Methods in Community Social Research; Field study: Montana (Montana Reformatory Schools)
• 1963 - University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law; Bachelor's Degree

• 1986– Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb
• 1984–1986 - free lanced author and researcher
• 1980–1983 - Center for the Studies in Self-Management, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Research Fellow
• 1973–1980 - Public Opinion Research Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Research Assistant
• 1968–1972 - Conference for Women, Group for Family Research, Zagreb; Research Fellow
• 1966–1968 - Institute for Social Research, Zagreb; Research Assistant
• 1964 –1966 - TAS "Prvomajska" (tool factory), Zagreb, Laboratory for Industrial Psychology; internship
   

Grants, scholarships, fellowships

• 2003 - Northwestern University, Consortium for Central and Southeast European Studies; Visiting Professor.
• 1999–2000 - Center for Policy Analysis, CEU, Budapest: Blue Bird Project – Social Inclusion Processes in SEE. Research Grant.
• 1993–1994 - Open Society Fund – Croatia: Violence in Eastern Europe in Transition: Croatia. Research Grant.
• 1993–1995 - Humanitarian Foundation Soros - Croatia: Data Base for Forced Migration, Refugees and Displaced People. Research Grant.
• 1991–1992 - University of Wisconsin at Madison, Department for Political Sciences, Fall 1991 and Claremont Colleges, Pitzer College, Department for Political Studies, Winter/Spring 1992. Fulbright Lecturer.
• 1984 - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution. Research Fellowship (January – September).
• 1978 - Akademia Nauki, Department for Applied Mathematics, Moscow. Coordinated Croatian and Slovene project on Multivariate Analysis Technics.
• 1972 - Chicago University, Department for Sociology, Graduate course: Economy and Sociology, prof. Berth Hoselitz, Spring Semester.
• 1969 - Case Western Reserve University, School for Applied Social Sciences, Cleveland, Spring and Summer.
• 1962 - Université de la Sorbonne (student exchange), Spring Semester.
   

Teaching
Continuing courses

• 1993–2003 - University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department for Sociology of Culture. Undegraduate Course: Methods in Social Research. Associate Professor.
• 1997–2003 - Interuniversity Centre Dubrovnik – IUC – Postgraduate Course: Divided Society. Organizing Director (1997–2002) and Co-Director of the Course.

Lecturing

• 2003 - Northwestern University, Department of Sociology, course: The Balkans – Societies, Cultures, Politics (Undegraduate, Spring Quarter). Associate Professor.
• 2002 - Centre for Women Studies, Zagreb, course: Gender and Social Exclusion. (Spring)
• 1991- Department for Political Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, course: Ethnic Conflict and Modernization in Eastern Europe (Undergraduate, Fall 1991). Lecturer.
• 1992 - Department for Political Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, courses: Political Construction of Ethnic and Gender Identity, and Eastern European Politics (Undergraduate, Spring). Lecturer.

Head of the Research Projects

• 1993–1995 - Forced Migration, Refugees and Displaced People in Croatia: Data Base. HEG - Humanitarian Expert Group (NGO), Zagreb.
• 1991–1992 - Violence in Eastern Europe in Transition: Forced Migration in Croatia. Humanitarian Expert Group (NGO), Zagreb.
• 1991–1992 - Migration, Modernization, Ethnicity in Peripheral Croatia. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Zagreb.
• 1989–1991 - Brain Drain from Yugoslavia: Policy Implications. Institute Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb and Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Zagreb.
• 1987–1990 - Development and Migration: Internal Migration in Croatia after 1945. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Zagreb.
• 1984 - Consensus and Conflict in an Inter-Ethnic Space. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.
• 1982–1986 - Internal Migration in Yugoslavia: Bosnians in Slovenia. Field research. Center for the Studies in Self-Management, Ljubljana and Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana.
• 1981–1982 - Employment of Women in Slovenia. Center for the Studies in Self-Management, Ljubljana.
• 1976–1983 - Internal Migration in Yugoslavia: Immigration to Slovenia. University of Ljubljana and Center for the Studies in Self-Management, Ljubljana.
• 1974–1976 - Stratification and Mobility in Yugoslavia. Intergenerational Mobility, Slovenia and Macedonia; Regression Analysis. Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana.

Participation in

• 2007– - Transnational Migration – Challenges to Croatian Society. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb.
• 2002–2006 - Croatian Migrant Communities: Belonging and Multiculturalism. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb.
• 2002–2005 - The Correlates of War. Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Zagreb.
• 1996–2002 - Croatian Ethnic Development in a Comparative Perspective. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb.
• 1991–1995 - Croats in European Countries and Contemporary Migration. Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Zagreb.
• 1989–1991 - Ethnic Conflicts in Contemporary World: The Case of Yugoslavia. Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Zagreb and UNRISD, Geneva.
• 1979–1983 - Slovenes: Changes of their Ethnic Identity. University of Ljubljana, Institute for Sociology.
• 1973–1978 - Slovene Migrant Workers in Germany. Stratification, Mobility, Values. University of Ljubljana: Institute for Sociology; Public Opinion Research Centre.

Books

• (ed.) Etničnost i stabilnost Europe u 21. stoljeću: položaj i uloga Hrvatske. Zagreb: Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Naklada Jesenski i Turk, Hrvatsko sociološko društvo, 2002.
• Otkrivanje prostora – prekrivanje vremena: migracije umjesto razvoja. Zagreb: Sociološko društvo Hrvatske, 1991.
• "Bosanci": A kuda idu Slovenci nedeljom? Beograd: Filip Višnjić, 1986 (Ljubljana: KRT - Slovene translation).
• Imigracije v Slovenijo: Slovenija kot imigracijska družba. Ljubljana: CRS, 1983.

 
Book chapters

• "Etničnost, nacija, stabilnost: osuvremeniti okvir promišljanja / Ethnicity, Nation, European Stability: Towards New Conceptual Framework", in: Silva Mežnarić (ed.). Etničnost i stabilnost Europe u 21. stoljeću: položaj i uloga Hrvatske. Zagreb: Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Naklada Jesenski i Turk, HSD, 2002, pp. 9–24 / 343–360.
• "Social Sciences in Croatia 1990–2000", in: Nikolai Benov, Ulrike Becker (eds). Social Sciences in Southeastern Europe. Paris - Bonn: International Social Science Council, 2001, pp. 63–90 (coauthor Aleksandar Vukić).
• "Europa i Hrvatska u njoj: kultura adaptacije", in: Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes (ed.). Kultura, etničnost, identitet. Zagreb: Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Naklada Jesenski i Turk, HSD, 1999, pp. 115–120.
• "Europa i etničnost: stanje i perspektive", in: Ružica Čičak-Chand, Josip Kumpes (eds). Etničnost, nacija, identitet: Hrvatska i Europa. Zagreb: Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Naklada Jesenski i Turk, HSD, 1998, pp. 235–247.
• "Europa i etničnost", in: Alojz Cindrič (ed.). Čarnijev zbornik (1931-1996): zbornik mednarodnih družboslovnih in humanističnih razprav. Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta, 1998, pp. 141–154.
• "In a Pursuit of a Framework: Delayed Modernization and the Emancipation of Women in the Balkans", in: Marilyn Rueschemeyer (ed.). Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe. Revised and expanded ed. Armonk - New York - London: M.E. Sharpe, 1998, pp. 196-202 (coauthor Mirjana Ule).
• "The Former Yugoslavia: The Case of Slovenia", in: Marilyn Rueschemeyer (ed.). Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe. Revised and expanded ed. Armonk - New York - London: M.E. Sharpe, 1998, pp. 202–214 (coauthor Mirjana Ule).
• "Gender as an Ethno-Marker: Rape, War, and Identity Politics in the Former Yugoslavia", in: Valentin M. Moghadam (ed.). Identity Politics and Women: Cultural reassertions and feminisms in international perspective. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, pp. 44–77.
• "Yugoslavia: Emigration Out of Necessity?", in: Daniel Kubat (ed.). The Politics of Migration Policies. Settlement and Integration: The First World into the 1990s. 2nd edn. New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1993, pp. 337-345 (coauthor Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes).