Meet the Team
Lovro Kralj
Lovro Kralj is a research and teaching assistant at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has a PhD in history from the Central European University Budapest/Vienna. His dissertation revolved around anti-semitism in the Ustaša movement and the implementation of the Holocaust in the towns of Osijek, Sarajevo, and Križevci.
Emil Kjerte
Emil Kjerte is a doctoral candidate in history at Clark University, Massachusetts with an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Uppsala University. His dissertation centers on the perpetrators of the Jasenovac Concentration and Death Camp Complex.
Danijel Matijevic
Danijel Matijević has a PhD in History and Jewish Studies from the University of Toronto. His dissertation, titled Ustašism as Ideology and Practice: Mass Violence and Entwined Genocides in Vukovar District, Croatia, 1939-1945, dissects the evolution of Ustašism—the ideology of the Ustaša movement—and the dynamics of Ustaša campaigns of genocide and mass violence in the context of Ustašist ideological dissemination in local communities, with the city of Vukovar as a microhistorical case-study. Currently, he is a YUFE4-MSCA Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) Alliance and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) based at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, and Maastricht University, the Netherlands.