Saša Vejzagić, PhD

Biography

Saša Vejzagić was born in 1987 in Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, in 2011, and earned a second master’s degree in 2013 from Central European University in Budapest. He received his PhD in 2021 from the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence with a dissertation entitled The Rise of a Business Class: Managerial Elites in Yugoslavia 1963-1978 (supervisor Professor Youssef Cassis).

Since 2016 he has been an external associate of the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism at the University of Pula. Between 2018 and 2023 he worked as an associate researcher, and from 2021 as a postdoctoral researcher, on the project Microstructures of Yugoslav Socialism: Croatia 1970-1990, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. In 2024 he was employed as a senior research assistant at the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, where he participated in the project Provenance Research of Artworks in Zagreb Collections. He is currently employed at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb as a senior research assistant on the ERC project Housing.Yu: The Right to Housing: the Production of Space of Everyday Life in Yugoslavia (1945-1991), within the research strand Housing and political-economic reforms.

He has organised several international conferences and academic workshops, coauthored several exhibitions, and undertaken short research stays in Belgrade, Sarajevo, and Glasgow. He is a coeditor of the volume Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the GDR and Yugoslavia (2025) and the author of several scholarly articles published in national and international journals, including Business History and Politička misao. His research interests include economic, business, political, labour, and social history of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the period of Yugoslav socialism.