Doc. dr. sc. Dražen Cepić
Assistant Professor
prof. (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb), mag. (CEU Budapest), dr.sc (EUI Florence)
Contact:
Department of Sociology
University of Zadar
Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV, br. 2
23 000 Zadar
tel. 385(0) (0)23 200-681
dcepic@unizd.hr
I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Zadar, where I have worked since 2016. Prior to that I was a postdoctoral researcher at the universities of Birmingham and Oxford. In 2013 I obtained my doctorate in social and political sciences from the European University Institute in Florence (I have since published my doctoral thesis with Routledge). Besides that, I have studied at universities in Zagreb, Berlin, and Vienna, as well as at the Central European University in Budapest where I completed an MA in sociology and social anthropology. I am currently leading a 5-year research project financed by the Croatian Science Foundation. I am interested in topics related to: sociological aspects of fisheries and natural resource management; the intersection between class inequalities, identities, and sociability; social network analysis (homophily, friendship, loneliness); and social process of valuation (symbolic boundaries, corruption, alternative metrics of worth).
List of published articles, reports and conference presentations
Selected projects:
2021-2026. Principal investigator, Department of Sociology, University of Zadar. Croatian Science Foundation-funded project “Sustainable fishing: social relations, identity and co-management of Adriatic fishery resources”
2020-2021. Research associate, Institute of Social Research, Zagreb. Croatian Science Foundation-funded project “The social resilience of Croatian society in the midst and aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic“
2016-2020. Postdoctoral researcher/Research associate, Department of Sociology, University of Zadar. Croatian Science Foundation-funded project “Social stratification in Croatia: structural and subjective aspects”
2014-2016. Postdoctoral researcher, International Development Department, University of Birmingham. Leverhulme Trust-funded project “Networking for fisheries co-management on Lake Victoria, East Africa”
2013. Visiting research fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. ERC-funded project “Media and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe”
Professional affiliations:
Departmental Coordinator, CEEPUS (Central European Exchange Program for University Studies), Department of Sociology, University of Zadar, 2020-present.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Croatian Sociological Review” 2019-present.