Tanja Vuckovic Juros
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sexualities & Gender
Families & SexualitiesAnti-Gender Mobilizations in CEEIntimate Citizenship, LGBT Rights & Social Exclusion of Sexual MinoritiesAttitudes & Public Discourse on Sexuality & Gender Qualitative Methodology
Qualitative Interviewing Research EthicsMixed MethodsCollective Memories
Communicative MemoriesGenerational Transmission of MemoriesMemories of Socialist YugoslaviaCultural Inequalities & Stratifications
Youth & Subcultures Cultural Capital, Educational Strategies & HabitusMarginalized GroupsCultural Transformations of Post-Socialist Societies
Values in Comparative PerspectiveGenerational Changes Migrations & Social RemittancesThe project "How Ordinary People Make Sense of Anti-Gender Messages" (Sense AGENDa) has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement #101025722 and conducted at Department of Sociology, University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia, with secondment at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
The project "Transformation of Family Norms in a Transnational World: How LGBT Migrants can Affect Change through Social Remittances" (TOFNITW, aka TransNorm) was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement #702650 and conducted at Interdisciplinary Research Center on Families and Sexualities (CIRFASE) University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
The interdisciplinary research project "Educational paths and work careers of young people who grew up in poverty" (OBRIRK) was supported by the European Social Fund, through Research grants for the professional development of young researchers and postdoctoral fellows (# HR.3.2.01).
As a member of a five-person research team, my theoretical focus in this research project was on the issues of cultural capital and habitus.
Collaborative project with Ivana Dobrotić & Sunčica Flego examining LGBT Frames in Croatian Newspapers Between 2002 and 2013.
Project "Social Changes and the Generational Differences in the Formation of Collective Memories" (2008-2012)
Doctoral Dissertation Research at Department of Sociology, Indiana University Bloomington.
Committee: Brian Steensland (PhD supervisor), Elizabeth Armstrong, Tom Gieryn, Ognjen Čaldarović
Supported by the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (#0825225), National Science Foundation (NSF), USA (2008), and the Fellowship for Doctoral Students, National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development, Croatia (2008).
PhD Thesis (2012, Indiana University Bloomington): Social changes and the generational differences in the formation of collective memories [in English].
Ma Thesis (2007, Indiana University Bloomington) Old Ways in New Times. Distributive Justice Ideologies of Transitional Cohort in Four Post-communist Countries [unpublished]
BA thesis (2005, University of Zagreb): Players of Tabletop Role-Playing Games (RPG) as a Subculture [in Croatian]
Student article (2003): Role Playing Games (RPG) subculture [in Croatian]