Josip Vrandečić
Title: Full Professor with Tenure
undergraduate
doctoral
Full Professor with tenure of Modern and Contemporary History at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split.Born on August 2, 1964; originally from Pučišća on the island of Brač. In 1984, he enrolled in the Department of History and Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar, graduating in 1988. On November 10, 1993, he earned his Master's degree from the postgraduate program in Dubrovnik at the Center for Postgraduate Studies of the University of Zagreb, defending his thesis "Two Dalmatias" during the Ottoman Wars in the 16th Century. From 1994 to 2000, he attended doctoral studies at Yale University in the United States of America. He obtained his Ph.D. from Yale on December 4, 2000, with a dissertation on Croatian history titled The Autonomist Movement in Austrian Province Dalmatia 1814-1914, which was published in a Croatian translation in 2002 and in its original English version in Cologne in 2009. He has participated in numerous academic and professional conferences, as well as guest lectures, both at home and abroad: in Split, Zagreb, Pescara, Corfu, Rome, Venice, Paris, Fribourg/Freiburg, and Vienna. At his home institution, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, he teaches undergraduate courses in History. He is the author and editor of twenty-two books and 200 academic and professional papers. He is also engaged in doctoral programs at the Catholic Faculty of Theology in Split and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He has led four domestic scientific projects. From 2015 to 2024, he served as the President of Brački zbornik, and since 2026, he has been the President of Književni krug Split and the Deputy Director of the Center for Croatian, Venetian, and Ottoman Studies at the University of Split.
Knjige:
1. Klesarska škola Pučišća 1909-2009, (englesko izdanje), (Klesarska škola, Pučišća), 2009.
2. The Autonomist Movement in Nineteenth-Century Austrian Dalmatia. Regionalisam versus Nationalism, (Lambert Academic Publishing, Köln), 2009. – englesko izdanje.
3. (Alain Jejcic, Peter Vodopivec, Josip Vrandečić ur.), Napoléon dans l’Adriatique – Dictionnaire biographique des provinces illyriennes, Editions SPM, Kronos, Pariz, 2018, 740.
Izvorni znanstveni radovi u
međunarodnim ili stranim publikacijama/časopisima:
1. “The military revolution in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Dalmatia”, Melikov zbornik, Ljubljana, 2001, 293-310.
2. “What did the merchant s Son Francis of Assisi Say to Thomas, a Student from Split? Protonationalism in early-modern Venetian Dalmatia (1420-1797)”” Annales, Koper, 11, (2001) 24, 1-10.
3. "Uloga Katoličke crkve u razvoju hrvatskog nacionalizma u Dalmaciji (Die Rolle der katholischen Kirche in der Entwicklung des kroatischen Nationalismus in Dalmatien)" Zbornik Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik. Kontraverse Deutungen und Annäherungen, (ur. Thomas Bremer), Bonn, 2002, 194-211.
4. „L'Italia e i movimenti nazionali in Serbia e in Croazia: dal Risorgimento alla Prima guerra mondiale“, u Franco Botta, Italo Garzia, Pasquale Guaragnella (ur.), La questione adriatica e l'allargamento dell'Unione europea, Studi Politica, (Milano: Franco Agneli), 2007, 27-44.
5. „Muhamedlia: A Theological Treatise on Islam in the Mostar Manuscript“, Forum Bosnae, 46 (2008), 210-222.
6. „Islam Immediately beyond the Dalmatian Coast: The Three Reasons for Venetian Success“, Balcani occidentali, 1 (2009), 287-307.
7. „La Dalmazia nell'eta moderna: L'influsso della „revoluzione militare“ sulla società dalmata“, Venezia e Dalmazia (ur. Uwe Israel e Oliver Jens Schmitt), Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Venetiana 12, Viella, Roma-Venezia, 2013, 151-163.
8. „Demonstrations of the Italian Community in Zadar against Archbishop Gregory Rajčević in 1894” u Klerus und Nation in Südosteuropa vom 19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert (ur. Aleksandar Jakir, Marko Trogrlić), International Tagung der Pro Oriente Kommission für Südosteneropische Geschihte, Split, 2.-6. V. 2012. Wien, 2014, 59-69.
9. Marko Trogrlić, Josip Vrandečić, „French Rule in Dalmatia, 1806-1814. Globalizing a Local Geopolitics“, Napoleon's Empire. European Politics in Global Perspective (ur. Ute Planert), Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2015, 264-276.
Principal Investigator of the completed scientific research project "Regionalism in Croatia in the 19th Century" (project code: 0070039), approved and funded by the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Croatia.
Principal Investigator of the scientific research project "French Administration in Dalmatia (1806–1814)" (project code: 244-2690754-0766), approved and funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.
Research Associate on the scientific research project "Dalmatia and the Vienna Central Institutions in the 19th Century" (project code: 244-2690754-0762), approved and funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, led by Principal Investigator Assoc. Prof. Marko Trogrlić, PhD.
Research Associate on the international scientific research project "Europa adriatica: rotte e percezioni nella storia e nella cultura del mare comune" based at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy), with the topic "Fra lo sviluppo politico interno e le vie politiche esterne: La Dalmazia nei primi due deceni del XX. secolo".
Project Leader of the project "Adriatic Geopolitics in Modernity 1493–1914" (Croatian Science Foundation), 2014–2018.
Project Leader of the project at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split: "Historiographical Contributions to the Modern History of Dalmatia (HIPRIL)", 2024–2026.
Research Associate on the scientific project of the University of Split: "Mediterranean - Croatia - Identity: Historical and Cultural Intertwinings (MEDHRID)".