PhD in Humanities (culture and religion studies), graduated from Western and Southern Slavic Studies (MA, Cultural Studies; Croatian language) and European Studies (Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, BA) University of Warsaw, slavist, Croatian studies expert
e-mail: angelika.zanki@ispan.waw.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2511-8086
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angelika_Zanki
Academia.edu: https://independent.academia.edu/AngelikaZanki
Research interests
- Emigration of Croats to South America and returnees in Croatia; migrations of Croats from the 19th century to today – causes and effects;
- Croatian War of Independence;
- National identity and sites of memory;
- Croatian and Bosnian mass culture;
- Socio-political situation in Croatia.
Positions
- Research and technical staff in the Research Support Office
- Research facilitator in ERC StG Project – Recycling the German Ghosts. Resettlement Cultures in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia after 1945 (spectral recycling)
Scholarships
- PROM – International scholarship exchange of PhD candidates and academic staff;
- CEEPUS – individual research, PhD studies, University of Zagreb;
- ERASMUS/ERASMUS + – ethnology and anthropology, Croatian studies; University of Zagreb, Master’s and PhD studies; internship;
- Individual scholarships of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia.
Research projects
- 2022–2023: Grant of the National Science Center (Miniatura) “Activities of the political community of Croatian emigrants in South America”, (2022/06/X/HS3/00012), Principal Investigator
- 2022–2027: ERC StG Project – Recycling the German Ghosts. Resettlement Cultures in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia after 1945 (spectral recycling, no. 101041946), Research facilitator/manager
Publications
- Zanki, A., (2022) The reasons for the emigration of Croats to South America between 1880–1914 and their impact in the political context. In Z. A. Brzozowska, P. Kręzel, I. Lis-Wielgosz (Eds.), Migrations in the Slavic Cultural Space. From the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Vol. 10, pp. 175-188). Series Ceranea, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. https://wydawnictwo.uni.lodz.pl/produkt/migrations-in-the-slavic-cultural-space-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-present-day/
- Zanki, A. (2019). The construction of a political community: Croatian political emigrants after 1945 as performative actors. Slavia Meridionalis, 2019(19). https://doi.org/10.11649/sm.1745
- Zanki, A. (2018). Pamćenje hrvatskog društva na primjeru Vukovara – grada heroja, Slavia Meridionalis, 2018(18). https://doi.org/10.11649/sm.1691