Andrea Feldman (historian)

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Andrea Feldman
Born (1960-10-22) 22 October 1960 (age 63)
Zagreb, PR Croatia, Yugoslavia
Nationality Croat
Alma mater University of Zagreb
Yale University
OccupationHistorian
Political party Liberal Party (1998–2006)
Sustainable Development of Croatia (2013–2014)
Spouse Ivo Banac (2010–2020)

Andrea Feldman (born 1960) is a Croatian historian and liberal politician.

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Early life and education

She was born in Zagreb. After finishing elementary and high school in her hometown, she enrolled at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from which she graduated in history. [1] She attended postgraduation studies at the Yale University where she obtained M.A. and M.Phil. degrees. [2] In December 2009, Feldman obtained Ph.D. from the Yale University with the doctoral thesis - "Imbro I. Tkalac and Liberalism in Croatia". In addition, she was awarded several scholarships for scientific research in various countries which included scholarships awarded by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2002), Open Society Foundations (1997–98), Yale University (1990–93; 1994–95), and University of London (1987–88).

Career

Professional/research work

Feldman participated at many international conferences in Croatia, US, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, UK, Poland, Turkey, Slovakia, Belgium and Italy. During her stay in the US, she regularly participated in the work of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She is Croatian representative at the International Federation for Research in Women's History since 1989. [3] For ten years she co-organized an international conference "Women and Politics" at Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik. Between 1987 and 1988, she was a researcher and associate at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and in the fall of 1993 a junior researcher at the Austrian Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen. In 1996, she worked for the Sterling Memorial Library transcribing, translating and cataloging testimonies of Holocaust survivors from Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Holocaust Archives. As director of the Institute Vlado Gotovac, she organized an international conference "Minorities as a Cross-border Cooperation Bridge" in Osijek in 2003. Friedman collaborated with the Yale Psychiatric Institute, working as a translator and co-worker on a posttraumatic stress disorder research. She conducted and translated conversations with refugees from BiH, who participated in the research as patients. She also analyzed the background of political and historical events in the successor countries of the SFR Yugoslavia for the conductors of research prof. Dori Laub and prof. Steven Wein. She translated therapeutic sessions from Bosnian and Croatian to English and vice versa.

University work

In 1992, Feldman worked as an assistant at the Department of History of the University of Yale where she lectured subjects Russian Culture (1824-90), Formation of American Culture (20th Century), History of International Communism and History of the Working Class in America. Between 1992 and 1993, she lectured the initial degree of Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian languages at the Department of Slavic Studies at the Yale University. In the fall semester of 1995, she lectured subject Bosnia and Herzegovina - Evolution of Multicultural Society. In 1996, she became assistant to prof. Mark Steinberg on the subject Russian Culture (1824-1990). Between 1985 and 2020 Feldman worked at the Croatian Institute of History. In the academic year 2002-03, she lectured subject History of Serbs for students of a special program of Serbian language, history, and culture at the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Zagreb. Between 2002 and 2004, she advised Foreign Ministers Tonino Picula and Miomir Žužul on human rights and civil society. In 2004, she was appointed a director of the Open Society Institute - Croatia. She worked at the position until 2006 when she became executive director of the Institute for Democracy. In 2008, she was appointed a deputy director of the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences.

As an external associate at the University Department for Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb, she lectured subject Women/Gender History in the 19th and 20th centuries. She also taught courses in History and Culture of the West (from the French Revolution to the Fall of the Berlin Wall) and the Political and Cultural Formations of the South Slavic Nations at the University of Business Studies in Banja Luka. [4] In the academic year 2010-11, she lectured subject of Comparative Politics at the School of Science and Technology of the University of Sarajevo. In addition, she also lectured at the University of London, University College London and King's College. [5]

Feldman is a member of the Croatian Writers' Society (HDP), and member of the Management Board of the Croatian branch of PEN International.

Political career

Feldman was an active member of the Liberal Party during the time it was governed by her future husband Ivo Banac. [6] She left the party when it was taken over by the associates of Zlatko Kramarić with whose politics she didn't agree. Feldman was politically inactive until 2013 when she joined Mirela Holy in founding Sustainable Development of Croatia party (ORaH). She left the party in 2014 citing disagreement with the political direction of the party, the question of support to Ivo Josipović (with whom she didn't agree) and bad interpersonal relations between members. At the 2014 European Parliament election, she was at the second place on the ORaH's electoral list, and was short a handful of votes to get elected to the European Parliament. [7] [8]

Private life

Feldman married historian Ivo Banac in 2010. [6] She speaks English, German and Italian.

Works

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References

  1. ↑ "Feldman, Andrea". ufzg.unizg.hr. University of Zagreb.
  2. ↑ "Yale Summer Session in Dubrovnik: History & Culture of Southeastern Europe". yale.edu. Yale University. 2019.
  3. ↑ "Suosnivačica Feldman nezadovoljna vodstvom stranke napustila ORaH". tportal.hr. 26 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "UFZG » Andrea Feldman". www.ufzg.unizg.hr.
  5. ↑ dizajn, Virtus. "Virtus dizajn". www.hrvatskodrustvopisaca.hr. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  6. 1 2 Došen, Vanja (30 March 2010). "Andrea Feldman i Ivo Banac planiraju vjenčanje". Jutarnji List.
  7. ↑ Komunikacije, Neomedia. "Andrea Feldman istupila iz ORaH-a i zbog Josipovića / Novi list". www.novilist.hr.
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