Sanja Horvatinčić

Sanja Horvatinčić is a Research Associate at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb, Croatia, and honorary fellow in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University. She got her PhD in Art History from the University of Zadar (2017) with a dissertation on memorial architecture from the socialist era in Croatia. Her research focuses on Yugoslav memorial production, critical heritage studies, and digital art history methodologies. She is currently Principal Investigator of the EU-funded DIGitART project (2023–2027) and leads “Heritage from Below | Drežnica: Traces and Memories 1941–1945”, a community-based archaeolo”gical and digital mapping initiative on resistance landscapes. Her earlier work on global cultural exchange networks, through the GLOB EXCHANGE project (2020–2023), examined Yugoslavia's role in fostering transnational artistic connections within the Non-Aligned Movement. She co-edited Modern and Contemporary Artists' Networks: An Inquiry into Digital History of Art and Architecture (with Lj. Kolešnik, 2018) and Shaping Revolutionary Memory: The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia (with B. Žerovc, 2023). Beyond academia, she engages in public education and has curated several exhibitions on socialist memorial heritage.

CV updated on 2026-09-26.