Academic titles:
Institutions:
- senior research associate – Institute for Historical Sciences of the CASA in Dubrovnik
Membership in Academy:
- associate member – Department of Social Sciences (5/16/2024 – …)
Curriculum Vitae
Lovro Kunčević (Zagreb 1979) received his Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from CEU (Budapest) in 2012. He is a senior research associate at the Institute for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Dubrovnik.
His main interests are the history of diplomacy, ideology, and institutions of medieval and early modern city-republics, primarily Ragusa and Venice. His PhD thesis dealt with the discourses on collective identity in Ragusa, investigating the various ways in which Ragusans represented their city-state during its golden age (from 1350 to 1600). That thesis was eventually published and received the award for the best history book of 2015 from the Croatian National Board for Historical Sciences. His second book is a study in historical sociology dedicated to the question of exceptional social and political stability of Dubrovnik Republic, i.e. the surprising absence of rebellions and constitutional reforms.
He held scholarships at the University College London (UCL), Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia and Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO) in Leipzig.
He has participated in several international projects organized by Cambridge University, EUI and CEU. Currently he is a member of the ERC project “The Diplomacy of Small States in Early Modern South-eastern Europe.”
He has published with various publishers (HAZU, Brill, Cambridge University Press, Routledge) on topics such as the republican ideology, diplomatic rhetoric, image of the other, and political institutions of premodern Ragusa.
He has also taught courses of medieval history of South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean at the University of Zagreb and the University of Dubrovnik.
He is the editor of the journal Dubrovnik annals, published by HAZU.
Lovro Kunčević – personal page
Bibliography
Lovro Kunčević – CroRIS
