OFFICE: C-008
PHONE: +385 1 4092 134
E-MAIL: gpsantek@ffzg.hr
OFFICE HOURS:
Tuesdays 13 – 14 h
Head of the department office hours:
Wednesdays 13 – 14 h

COURSES:
Anthropology of Sport (course holder/lecturer)
History of Anthropology (course holder/lecturer)
Comparative Slavic Ethnography (course holder/lecturer)
Economic Anthropology (course holder/lecturer)
Applied Anthropology (course holder/lecturer)
Religion, Identity, Organization (course holder/lecturer)

BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Goran Pavel Šantek was born April 24, 1970 in Zagreb, where he finished primary and secondary schools. He graduated Ethnology and Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1995. He received his MA from the same faculty in 2000, and the title of his MA thesis was Fishery in the island of Cres. A Contribution to Economic Anthropology. In 2004 he received his PhD in ethnology with a thesis titled Neocatechumenal Way: Cultural Anthropological Study of a Religious Community.
He worked as junior research assistant at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb from 1996 till 2006. From 2006 till 2009 he worked as assistant professor at the University of Zadar. He was appointed assistant professor in October 2011, and from July 2009 till September 2011 he worked as associate professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He was chair of the department and member of the Board of the Faculty from October 1, 2009 till September 30, 2011.
He has collaborated on research projects of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research since 1996. Since 2007 he has been supervisor of the research project Cultural and Linguistic Contexts as Determinants of Identity Formation, and from January 1, 2010 till December 31, 2010 he was co-supervisor (together with dr. Andrej Pleterski from Slovenia) of the international research project Mythical Landscape as Source of Knowledge on Spatial Organization.
He has presented the results of his scientific and research work in about ten conferences. The following international conferences are worth a mention: Contemporary Science and Faith, International Conference, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 29-30, 2010; The Culture of Identity. Anthropology, Religions and Alternative Religions, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, November 5-6, 2010; The Island of Pag in the Eve of Croatian Christianity, Zadar-Pag (president of the organizational committee), September 26-28, 2008; Perspectives of Lifelong Learning for Teachers and Educators, Zadar, May 30-31, 2008; Senses and Religion, 5th Conference of the Ethnology of Religion Group, SIEF, Celje, Slovenia, September 10-11, 2006; The Szeged School of Ethnology, conference of the University of Szeged and SIEF commission for popular religiosity, Szeged, Hungary, August 5, 2004 and the Joint Meetings of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion and the American Ethnological Society, Providence, USA, April 23-26, 2003.
With regards to Goran Pavel Šantek’s international activities, he received a research scholarship at the University of Oxford (Linacre College) in July 2005 and the University of Harvard in April 2003.
Goran Pavel Šantek presents his own research and disciplinary insights in public lectures and appearances (Croatian Television, Croatian Radio, Zadarski list). He was the member of the editorial board and secretary of Etnološka tribina, journal of the Croatian Ethnological Society, and since 2006 he has been the member of the International Editorial Board of the journal Antropologija, published by the Center for Ethnological and Anthropological Research of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Belgrade. He reviews scientific publications and papers for national and international scientific journals (Studia ethnologica Croatica, Etnološka tribina, Etnološka istraživanja, Narodna umjetnost, Traditiones, Acta Iadertina i Senjski zbornik). He is the member of SIEF (Societe Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore), Matrix Croatica and Croatian Ethnological Society.
Since 2009 dr. Goran Pavel Šantek taught nine university courses, most of which he introduced, which points to the diversity of his interests and the scope of his knowledge. He taught the following courses:
– Anthropology of Sport (30 hours of lectures and 30 hours of seminars per semester, 5 ECTS points), graduate course at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, since the academic year 2011/2012 (new course)
– History of Anthropology (30 hours of lectures and 30 hours of seminars per semester, 5 ECTS points), graduate course at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, since the academic year 2010/2011 (new course)
– Traditional mountain cattle breeding (30 hours of seminars per semester, 5 ECTS points), graduate course at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, academic year 2010/2011
– History of Anthropology (15 hours of lectures and 30 hours of seminars per semester, 5 ECTS points), graduate course at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, academic year 2009/2010.
– Economic Anthropology (15 hours of lectures and 30 hours of seminars per semester, 5 ECTS points), graduate course at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, periodically since the academic 2009/2010 (new course)
– Comparative Slavic Ethnography (30 hours of seminars per semester, 5 ECTS points), undergraduate course at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, periodically since the academic 2009/2010 (new syllabus)
– Religion, Identity, Organization (8 hours of lectures and 7 hours of seminars, 5 ECTS points), postgraduate course at Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, academic years 2008/2009 and 2010/2011 (new course)
– Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (30 hours of lectures and 30 hours of seminars per semester, 5 ECTS points) at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar, academic years 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 (new course)
– Croatian Ethnography (30 hours of lectures and 30 hours of seminars per semester, 5 ECTS points) at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar, academic years 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 (new course)
– Croatian Ethnography (15 hours of lectures and 30 hours of seminars per semester, 4 ECTS points) at the Department of Culture and Tourism, University of Zadar, academic years 2007/2008, 2008/2009 and 2009/2010
– Economic Anthropology (30 hours of lectures, 3 ECTS points) at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar, academic year 2008/2009
– Anthropology of Religion (30 hours of lectures, 3 ECTS points) at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar, academic year 2007/2008 (new course)
– Ethnographic Techniques (15 hours of lectures and 30 hours of practical work, 4 ECTS points) at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar, academic year 2008/2009 (new course).

PUBLISHED WORK
http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=219900