Igor Duda

Igor Duda is a full professor in the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Juraj Dobrila University in Pula, and one of the founders of the University’s Center for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism. He graduated in history and Croatian studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, and earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in history. His research focuses on the history of everyday life and the social history of Croatia and socialist Yugoslavia. He is the author of four scholarly monographs and editor of several collected volumes. His book Pronađeno blagostanje. Svakodnevni život i potrošačka kultura u Hrvatskoj 1970-ih i 1980-ih (Found Prosperity: Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Croatia in the 1970s and 1980s, 2010) won the Kiklop Award for Scientific Book of the Year. His most recent book is Socijalizam na kućnom pragu. Mjesna zajednica i svakodnevica društvenog samoupravljanja u Jugoslaviji (Socialism on the Doorstep: Local Communities and Everyday Life under Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 2023). He has collaborated with the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography as an author of entries for the Croatian Encyclopedia and as author, editor, and executive editor of the Istrian Encyclopedia. He teaches in the doctoral program in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Zagreb and collaborates as a Research Fellow with the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg. He is the founder of the Summer Doctoral Workshop, co-organizer of the conferences Socialism on the Bench, and co-editor of the journal History in Flux. He led two research projects, Socialist Man and Micro-Socialism (2014–2023), funded by the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ). He is currently working on the history of housing and residential development in the project Housing.Yu, funded by the European Research Council (ERC).