Dr. Petra Rajić Šikanjić

Contact: petra@inantro.hr, +38515535126

Academic and Scientific degrees

2018 Research Advisor, Humanities – Ethnology and Anthropology
2012 Senior Research Associate, Humanities – Ethnology and Anthropology
2007 Research Associate, Humanities – Ethnology and Anthropology
2006 PhD Anthropology (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
2003 M.Sc. Biology – Biological Anthropology (Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)
1997 B.A. Archaeology (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)

Professional Training

2007 course: «Osteological age estimation and paleodemographic analysis» Odense, Denmark
2005 course: «7th European paleopathology short course» Bradford, United Kingdom
2000 visiting student – Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
1999 course: «3rd Zumbotel Lectures: Missing Geometry in Palaeoanthropology» Vienna, Austria

Work Experience

Scientific and professional work
Scientific work

2020 – Collaborator – project: „Childhood in protohistory of southern Carpathian Basin“ (Croatian Science Foundation IP-2019-04-2520)
2017-2021 Consultant – project: „Iron Age Female Identities in the Southern Carpathian Basin“ (Croatian Science Foundation IP 06-2016-1749)
2016-2019 Collaborator – project Twinning „Smart Integration of Genetics with Sciences of the Past in Croatia: Minding and Mending the Gap“ (H2020-TWINN-2015)
2014-2017 Collaborator – project “Late Bronze Age mortuary practices and society in southern Carpathian Basin” (Croatian Science Foundation UIP-11-2013-
2007-2013 Associate – Project: “Culture Change and Archaeological Population Dynamics in Eastern Adriatic” (Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Republic of Croatia; 196-1962766-2740)
2002-2006 Research Assistant – Project: “Population Structure of Croatia-Anthropoarchaeological Approach” (Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Republic of Croatia; 0196004)
2000-2002 Research Assistant – Project: “Anthropological Investigations of the Population Structure of Croatia” (Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Croatia; 019601)

Organisation of Scientific Meetings

2018 Member of the Scientific Committee „22nd European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association“, Zagreb
2017 Member of the Organizing Committee „Late Bronze Age mortuary practices and society in the Carpathian Basin“, Zagreb
2016 Member of the Organizing Committee „International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter-Congress World anthropologies and privatization of knowledge: engaging anthropology“, Dubrovnik
2015 Member of the Organizing Committee „Anthropology and tourism: Improving the competencies in cultural tourism“, Zagreb
1998-2008 Member of the Organizing Committee „Anthropology and Health“
1998-2008 Member of the Organizing Committee „School of Biological Anthropology“
2002 Member of the Organizing Committee „13th Congress of the European Anthropological Association“, Zagreb
2001 Secretary of the „27th School of Biological Anthropology: Anthropology and Population Genetic“, Zagreb
1998 Member of the Organizing Committee „4th International Congress on Physiological Anthropology“, Zagreb

Museum exhibitions

2011/2012 advisor – „MORS PORTA VITAE – DEATH THE GATE OF LIFE: Old Zagreb cemeteries and funerals“ – Zagreb City Museum
2013 advisor – „In the service of archaeology“ Zagreb City Museum

Mentorships:

2016. Ph. D. Thesis – Zrinka Premužić: “ Anthropological perspective of burial practices in the beginning of the Late Bronze Age in Northern Croatia” (Department of Archaeology, University of Zagreb, Croatia)

List of Publications: link

Research Interest: burial customs, cremation, bioarchaeology, paleopathology