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Marko Trogrlić
Title: Full Professor with Tenure
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Marko Trogrlić was born on 19 May 1972 in Zadvarje, Croatia. He completed his primary and secondary education in Split. He is a Full Professor with Tenure in the field of Croatian and World Modern and Contemporary History at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split.
He graduated in History from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Vienna, where, at the Institute of East European History, he passed the doctoral examination (Rigorosum) in 2001 and defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Ivan Skakoc (1752–1837): Leben und Werk ("Ivan Skakoc (1752–1837): Life and Work").
In 2002, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the field of Humanities, discipline of History, specialization in Croatian National History, at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zadar. Since 1 October 2006, he has been employed at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008, Full Professor in 2014, and in 2019 was appointed Full Professor with Tenure in Croatian and World Modern and Contemporary History.
He completed his studies in Christian Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus in Zagreb (1997) and his studies in Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome (2002). He was ordained a Catholic priest on 5 January 2019 and has since been engaged in pastoral ministry in Split.
He served as Head of the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split during the academic years 2008/2009, 2013/2014, and 2014/2015. From 1 October 2009 to 30 September 2013, he served two consecutive terms as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, during which he was also a member of the University Senate. He also served as President of the Conference of Deans of Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Republic of Croatia. From 2019 to 2023, he was a member of the University of Split Committee for the Appointment of Professor Emeritus candidates. Since July 2021, he has served as Head of the Centre for Croatian, Venetian and Ottoman Studies at the University of Split. Since 1 October 2025, he has been a member of the Senate of the University of Split as the representative of Full Professors in the field of Humanities.
At the European University of Rome (Università Europea di Roma), he was a member of the academic staff of the doctoral programme Mutamento, culture, identità e percezioni in area euromediterranea tra Tardo Antico e Età Contemporanea ("Change, Cultures, Identities and Perceptions in the Euro-Mediterranean Area from Late Antiquity to the Contemporary Age") from the 2013/2014 to the 2015/2016 academic year. During the winter semester of the 2015/2016 academic year, he also taught the course Storia Contemporanea (Contemporary History) as a Visiting Professor at the same university.
At the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, he has continuously taught courses in Croatian Modern and Contemporary History at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. He has also lectured in the doctoral programmes in History at the University of Zadar, at the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Split, and at the European University of Rome (Università Europea di Roma).
He was the principal investigator of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports research project Dalmatia and the Central Institutions in Vienna in the Nineteenth Century. Together with Dr. Konrad Clewing (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg), he co-led the research project Zentralstaat und Provinzverwaltung im habsburgischen Dalmatien des Vormärz ("The Central State and Provincial Administration in Habsburg Dalmatia during the Vormärz Period") in 2015/2016. The project was funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science.
He was a recipient of a scholarship from the German Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD, Bonn) from 1 October 2016 to 1 July 2017, during which he conducted research on the project Kirche und Staat im habsburgischen Dalmatien (1815–1855) ("Church and State in Habsburg Dalmatia, 1815–1855"). He has participated in numerous international scholarly conferences in Croatia and abroad and has served on the organizing committees of the Congress of Croatian Historians and several other academic conferences held in Croatia.
From December 2021 to December 2025, he served as President of the Literary Circle Split (Književni krug Split). Since 2026, he has served as its Vice President.
He was elected a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (Philosophisch-Historische Klasse), on 22 April 2022.
He was elected a Full Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) on 21 May 2026.
He is a member of several Croatian and international professional associations, including the Croatian Historical Society (Društvo za hrvatsku povjesnicu), the Croatian National Committee of Historical Sciences (HNOPZ), the Gesellschaft für Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts (Graz), the Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft (Rome), and the Gesellschaft für Konziliengeschichtsforschung (Augsburg). He was also a member of the Kommission für südosteuropäische Geschichte of the Pro Oriente Foundation (Vienna).
He is a member of the editorial board of the Literary Circle Split (Književni krug Split) and of the Knjiga Mediterana ("Book of the Mediterranean") publication series. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split (Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu) and was a member of the editorial boards of Historijski zbornik and Vjesnik dalmatinskih arhiva. He is also a contributor to the Croatian Biographical Lexicon (Hrvatski biografski leksikon) and the Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon (Vienna).
