Darko Dukovski

Darko Dukovski was born in 1960 in Pula, where he attended primary and secondary school. At the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, he enrolled in a four-year double-major programme in Philosophy and History. He graduated in 1984, and that same year he enrolled in a postgraduate programme at his home faculty, at the Department of History, specializing in Early Modern and Contemporary History. In 1989, he obtained his master’s degree with the thesis „Nacionalni blok u Istri 1920. – 1921. godine“, and at the end of 1993 he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled „Fašistički pokret u Istri 1919. – 1929.“ Since 2001, he has been permanently employed at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, where he has been a full professor since 2007 and has since served as head of the Chair of Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary History; from 2008 to 2014, he was also head of the Department of History. From 2007 to 2014 and from 2015 to 2023, he served as head of the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History. To date, he has published more than 160 scholarly and professional papers in Croatian and foreign academic journals, around ten feuilletons in the Croatian press, 11 books authored solely by him and two scholarly books co-authored with others, as well as four university textbooks, one of them co-authored.