Dragan Markovina
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Dragan Markovina (2016)
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| Born |
6 February 1981 Mostar, FPR Yugoslavia (now: Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| Residence | Split, Croatia |
| Nationality | Croat |
| Education | MSc, Dr.Sc. (Zagreb) |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
| Occupation | Historian, writer |
| Political party | New Left Croatia |
Dragan Markovina (born 6 February 1981) is a Croatian historian, author and president of the New Left Croatia party.
Markovina was born in Mostar and there he attended the first 5 grades of Primary school. In 1992, due to the Bosnian War, he moved to the island of Korčula in Croatia where he continued primary school. He continued to live there after the war. In 1999, Markovina graduated from the gymnasium in Korčula. After that he went to study history at the Centre for Croatian Studies in Zagreb. He graduated from the faculty in 2004. His graduation thesis was: ZAVNOH-Foundations and political activity.
In December 2004, he started working at the University of Split and later he enrolled in the postgraduate studies of Croatian history at the Philosophy faculty in Zagreb. He defended his master's thesis in 2009 on the subject: The Šibenik port in the commercial-cultural exchanges between the two Adriatic coasts in the 18th and 19th century. In 2011, Markovina defended his doctor's thesis on the subject: Dalmatia in the Venice reform projects during the 18th century.
When it comes to politics, he is regarded as a left-wing intellectual. He gained public attention in April 2013 when he started a petition for the removal of Franjo Tuđman's statue in Split. He later announced his candidacy for the council assembly at the Split local elections, 2013. He received 1.97% of the popular vote.
In December 2014, he was a guest on the national TV talk show, Nedjeljom u 2, which is the most popular TV talk show in Croatia and it pushed Markovina into mainstream media. About the same time, he was informed that his contract with the University of Split was not going to be renewed so he lost his job as a university professor. He was later offered a job by Milorad Pupovac to work with the archives at the Serb National Council which he accepted and then left after a few months.
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