Blanka Matkovic MPhil/PhD student at University of Warwick, Historian and MSc in International relations and national security [email protected]

Summary Lots of experience in journalism, NGO, translations and scientific research (history, political science)

Experience MPhil/PhD student, Department of History at University of Warwick October 2012 - Present (1 month) First year student

Historian (researcher) at Dom Kulture Zvonimir September 2012 - Present (2 months) Researcher on the project “The Victims of Solin in World War II”. Research results will be published in the book “The Victims of Solin” in 2013.

Historian (researcher) at Municipality of Dugopolje July 2010 - June 2011 (1 year) Researcher on the project “The Victims of Dugopolje in World War II”. Research results were published in the book “The Victims of Dugopolje” in June 2011.

Historian (researcher) at Croatian State Archives March 2008 - April 2011 (3 years 2 months) Researcher on the project “War crimes committed against Croatian citizens at the end and after the World War II” conducted by Croatian State Archives and Croatian State Attorney’s Office.

Historian (researcher) at INTERFILM d.o.o. April 2006 - September 2006 (6 months) Research and review of archival documents for the recording of the documentary film and series

Journalist at Croatian web site for web programmers and designers Webmajstori.net May 2003 - December 2003 (8 months) Web programming articles

Field Researcher at B.a.B.e. (human rights organisation) July 2002 - July 2002 (1 month) I was interviewing representatives of Croatian NGOs, media professionals and politicians within a research project that aimed at detecting level of competence of civil society organizations in advocacy and lobbying and carried by international team of the researchers from Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. A research

Page1 project was organized by Women's Human Rights Group B.a.B.e in co-operation with C.M. Mott foundation and Women's Alliance for Development.

Journalist at “Hacker”, PC Magazine March 2001 - June 2002 (1 year 4 months) Internet news and articles about the best web sites

Editor and journalist at “Puls”, Student magazine February 1997 - February 2002 (5 years 1 month) Interviews (mostly with Croatian politicians and parliament representatives), articles and analysis of social and political problems (Croatian elections in 1997 and 2000, Middle East crisis, crime and drugs, etc.). I also wrote few articles about music, lifestyle and PCs. Since April 1999 I was an editor of Puls's socio-political section "Res Publica" and was supervising the work of few younger colleagues and journalism students who covered different issues like global warming and Kyoto agreement, xenophobia, demography, discrimination, GMO, Croatian internal politics, etc.

Research assistant at PULS Ltd. February 2001 - March 2001 (2 months) The research project "South Eastern Europe and the Stability Pact: New means for Regional Analysis" was organised by International IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) in co-operation with local research institutes. In Croatia, Puls Ltd. was responsible for the research part. The main aim of this research was to define principal issues and problems in the country which would then be used for the quantitative research, that is, for developing a questionnaire inquiry to be implemented in all Southeast European countries. The goal of the qualitative research was to monitor the public agenda in the Balkan area. I did transcriptions of the interviews with Croatian politicians and parliament representatives and I prepared tables with different kinds of information that Puls's researchers needed.

Journalist at “Studentska panorama”, Student magazine October 1996 - December 1996 (3 months) Interviews and reports (mostly political and university issues)

Page2 Publications ARRESTS AND LIQUIDATIONS OF WOUNDED MEMBERS OF THE CROATIAN ARMED FORCES (HOS) TAKEN FROM HOSPITALS IN ZAGREB BY YUGOSLAV ARMED FORCES IN MAY AND JUNE OF 1945 IN THE RECORDS OF STATE ARCHIVES IN ZAGREB Arhivski vjesnik (Bulletin d'Archives), Croatian State Archives, No.54/2011, pages 179-214. 2011 Authors: Blanka Matkovic Based on documents from the two hospitals in Zagreb, Croatia ( „Zakladna“ and „Sisters of Mercy“), it is possible, at least to some degree, to reconstruct what happened to the hospitalized members of the Croatian Armed Forces (HOS) most of whom were suferring from heavy injuries and were imobile, when the Yugoslav Army entered Zagreb on May 8, 1945 and found them in the hospitals in Zagreb. Even though contemprary historians do not have access to documents from other Croatian hospitals (because they are not available and/or not preserved) where the members of the Croatian Armed Forces were hospitalized together with soldiers from Germany, Poland, the Check Republic, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Slovenia, and the New Siberia region, the documents from the Sisters of Mercy hospital, currently deposited in the State Archives in Zagreb, defintely confirm previous eye witnesses accounts on how the Agency for Protection of Peoples (OZN-a) conducted massive arrests and transportated these patients into the concentration camp „Precko“ in Zagreb, Croatia. Even though there are no documents regarding the ultimate destiny of these hospitalized Croatian soldiers, the results from excavations and the reports from patologists from 1999, that is the evidence recovered from the mass grave Jazovka, in Zumberak, Croatia, proves that these wounded Croatian soldiers were mass murdered at this location, together with the hosptial staff and other victims. The registration and the realease documents from these two hospitals („Zakladna“ and „Sisters of Mercy“) provide necessary information that could eventually, with the help of additional research and excavation of other mass graves, lead to at least a partial list of hospitalized members of the Croatian Armed Forces that were mass murdered by the members of the Yugoslav Army, the Yugoslav Agency for Protection of Peoples (OZN-a) and the Corpus of People's Defense of Yugoslavia (KNOJ) and thrown into the Jazovka and other mass graves.

CRIMES OF THE 8TH DALMATIAN CORPUS FORMATIONS OF NOVJ IN AT THE BEGINNING OF 1945 “Hum”, Faculty of Philosophy, the University of , and Herzegovina, No. 7, pages 288-331. 2012 Authors: Blanka Matkovic Formations of the 9th, 19th and 26th Dalmatian division of the 8th corpus made many war crimes on Herzegovinian Croats before, during and after , i.e. joint activities of formations of the 8th Dalmatian corpus and 29th Herzegovinian division of the 2nd NOVJ corpus. Those victims were soldiers, civilians and priests most of whom were killed and buried in Herzegovina, but part of them was taken to Croatia and killed at the Dalmatian battlefields near Vrgorac and Zagvozd. The article analyzes familiar data about these events and updates them with unpublished documents from archive funds which are today kept in the National Archives in London, Croatian state archive in Zagreb and State archive in Split because of identifying formations responsible for certain crimes.

http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=3d367b94-b9e7-4849-a4f2-ea61f76e1643&articleId=0cc4e4e4-84a2-4b0f-b363-e99e2b773569

Page3 The struggle for Travnik in October 1944 “Bosna Franciscana”, Franciscan theology, , Bosnia and Herzegovina, No.35, 2011 (co-author), pages 133-172 2011 Authors: Blanka Matkovic, Stipo Pili# This paper analyzes the struggle for the town Travnik (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and its occupancy on 22nd October 1944, including the victims who were killed thereby, and whose names were so far largely unknown. The first part indicates the importance and significance of Travnik, and the battles being led for this town during the World War II. The second part presents the documents with the lists of missing and killed during the battle in Travnik from 20th to 24th October 1944. These sources reveal the names of 39 missing and 33 killed active members of the Croatian military unit known as "V. stajaca djelatna bojna I. ustaskog stajaceg djelatnog zdruga", of which there is almost nothing known in the Croatian historiography. The third and final part is trying to reveal the mass graves which should be marked with dignity, and to identify the perpetrators of these war crimes.

War crimes committed by “Josip Jurcevic” battalion in Vrgorac(Croatia) on 15th June 1942 “Journal of Vrgorska Krajina”, No. 22, May 2011 and “Political prisoner”, No. 234 (September 2011), No. 235 (October 2011), No. 236 (November 2011) and No. 237 (December 2011) 2011 Authors: Blanka Matkovic Historiographic feuilleton about the partisan taking of the small town of Vrgorac in mid 1942 and the brutal slaughter of a large number of its citizens.

The battle of and war crimes committed by the 8th Corps of People’s Liberation Army of Yugoslavia “Sources and contributions for the History of ”, State archive Split and Faculty of Philosophy studies (University of Split), Split, No.23, 2012 2012 Authors: Blanka Matkovic Due to be published

The Victims of Dugopolje Municipality of Dugopolje, Croatia June 2011 Authors: Blanka Matkovic, Josip Dukic Book review: http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=118182

War crimes and terror in Dalmatia between 1943 and 1948 committed by the members of the People’s Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Army, the Yugoslav Agency for Protection of Peoples and the Department of National Security, Documents Published online March 2011 Authors: Blanka Matkovic, Ivan Pazanin

Partisan and Communist repression and crimes in Croatia between 1944 and 1946, Documents, Dalmatia Croatian Institute for History, Zagreb May 2011 Authors: Blanka Matkovic, Stipo Pili#, Eugen Roca, Mate Rupic, Vladimir Geiger, Zlatko Begonja, Tomislav Djonlic, Josip Kolanovic

Page4 The bombings of Trogir in February 1944 Vartal, Matica hrvatska Trogir 2012 Authors: Blanka Matkovic Due to be published

Courses

Independent Coursework

CAE preparation course, Foreign language school Tarma, Split, Croatia

TOEFL preparation course, Institute for the Development of Education, Zagreb, Croatia

TOEFL preparation course, Zona znanja, Zagreb, Croatia

IELTS preparation course, Zona znanja, Zagreb, Croatia

GRE preparation course, Institute for the Development of Education, Zagreb, Croatia

Projects The Victims of Dugopolje (1941-1948) July 2010 to June 2011 Members:Blanka Matkovic, Josip Dukic - Research conducted in the State Archives of Split and Croatian State Archives, Zagreb), - Research results published in the book “The Victims of Dugopolje”, June 2011

War crimes committed against Croatian citizens at the end and after World War II March 2008 to April 2011 Members:Blanka Matkovic, Stipo Pili# - Research conducted in the archives and museums in Croatia and Slovenia), - Research results published or due to be published in several scientific papers and reported to the Department of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and Zagreb Police Department.

Page5 Croatian History 1941-1948 2010 to Present Members:Blanka Matkovic, Josip Dukic, Stipo Pili#, Ivan Pazanin

The Victims of Solin (1941-1948) September 2012 to Present Members:Blanka Matkovic, Josip Dukic - Research is conducted in the State Archives of Split and Croatian State Archives, Zagreb), - Research results will be published in the book “The Victims of Solin” (2013)

Languages Croatian (Native or bilingual proficiency) English (Full professional proficiency) Italian (Limited working proficiency) German (Limited working proficiency) Arabic (Elementary proficiency) Spanish (Elementary proficiency) French (Limited working proficiency)

Organizations Croatian Society of Historians – Dr Rudolf Horvat (HDP – Dr. Rudolf Horvat) vice-president March 2008 to Present

Certifications EUROPEAN COMPUTER DRIVING LICENCE (ECDL) Croatian Information Technology Society September 2005

IBM ACE E-Business Application Developer IBM Croatia June 2003

TOEFL ETS February 2012 to February 2014

IELTS University of Cambridge March 2012 to March 2014

Page6 Test Scores IELTS March 2012 Score:8.0 Reading: 9.0, Listening: 8.5, Speaking: 7.5, Writing: 7.0

TOEFL February 2012 Score:112/120 Reading: 29/30, Listening: 26/30, Speaking: 27/30, Writing: 30/30

EFCELT October 2011 Score:C2 level

Volunteer Experience Volunteer and Urgent Actions Network member at Amnesty International Croatia May 2003 - May 2005 (2 years 1 month) - Translations of Amnesty International public and internal documents and reports (mostly about Iraq, Afghanistan, ICC, UN Commission on Human Rights and UN Committee against Torture sessions) in Croatian - Croatian foreign politics and situations in Iraq and Afghanistan – analysis - building database and developing computer program (using VBScript, SQL and JavaScript) for internal use - Assistant at the workshop on Human Rights (administrative work)

Skills & Expertise English Italian German Web Design Web Content Journalism Research Cyrillic alphabet History Military History Modern History World War II Political Science International Relations National Security Translation Database Design Documentaries Editorial

Page7 Internet Microsoft Office Writing Creative Writing

Education University of Warwick MPhil/PhD, History, 2012 - 2016 Activities and Societies: Research Student Skills Programme (RSSP)

EC London Advanced English (C1), 2012 - 2012 Activities and Societies: Lara's Foundation

EF International language schools, Chicago, USA English language, 2012 - 2012

EF International language schools, Dublin, Ireland English language, 2012 - 2012

EF International language schools, London, UK English language, 2012 - 2012

Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia Master of Science in International Relations and National Security, International Relations and National Security Studies, 2000 - 2012 Grade: B Activities and Societies: Croatian Association for International Studies (HUMS)

EF International language schools, London, UK Certificate, English language, 2011 - 2011

Foreign languages school Sokrat, Zagreb, Croatia Certificate, German language, 2011 - 2011

Istituto Italiano di Cultura/ Foreign language school ABC, Zagreb, Croatia Certificate, Italian language, 2011 - 2011

Foreign languages school Lapsus, Zagreb, Croatia Certificate, Arabic language, 2006 - 2007

Foreign languages school Sokrat, Zagreb, Croatia Certificate, French language, 2004 - 2007

Educational Institution Algebra & IBM Croatia IBM certificate, IBM Advanced Career Education (IBM ACE): E-Business Application Developer (C++, Java, ASP, XML), 2002 - 2003

Page8 Educational Institution Algebra, Zagreb, Croatia Certificate, Internet application programming (ASP), 2002 - 2002

Educational Institution Algebra, Zagreb, Croatia Certificate, Web designer, 2001 - 2002

Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia Graduate Journalist / Master of Journalism, Journalism, 1996 - 2001 Activities and Societies: Student magazine "Puls"

Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia Graduate Historian / Master of History, History, 1994 - 2000 Grade: B

High school "Prva gimnazija", Split, Croatia High school diploma, Foreign languages: English, German, Latin, Social and Natural sciences, Math, Art, 1990 - 1994

Interests International relations, national security, terrorism, counterterrorism, political and military history (20th century), modern history of South-Eastern Europe, World War II and post-war period, totalitarianism, war crimes and human rights violations.

Page9 Blanka Matkovic MPhil/PhD student at University of Warwick, Historian and MSc in International relations and national security [email protected]

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