About Us
Daniela Simon
PD Dr. Daniela Simon studied history, political science and German studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She completed her doctorate in Eastern European History on religion and violence in Eastern Croatia and Northern Bosnia during the Second World War. She then worked as a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center "Threatened Orders" before habilitating at the University of Tübingen in 2022 with a thesis on cultural hybridity in Istria in the 19th century. Her research interests lie in the history of Southeast Europe, the culture and history of the Middle Danube region and Danube Swabian history. She has been working at the Institute for Danube-Swabian History and Regional Studies since 2021.
Žolt Lazar
Prof. Dr. Žolt Lazar (1961, Novi Sad, Serbia), he graduated and received his doctorate in sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, and his master's degree at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. He is the author of three monographs and over sixty scientific papers, he edited collections about the audience of Novi Sad's Exit festival and multiculturalism and regionalization of Vojvodina. He was the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Sociological Review (Sociološki pregled, Belgrade), and he is a reviewer and associate of leading scientific journals in the Republic of Serbia and the surrounding area. He participated in several scientific research projects of national importance, and in 2007-8. he managed the project "Multiculturality of AP Vojvodina as a factor of regional integration in Southeastern and Central Europe". He deals with the sociology of culture, religion and art and is a full professor at the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy and the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad. He is a member of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), and since 2023 he has been the president of the Serbian Sociological Society.
Máté Tamáska
Prof. Máté Tamáska is a university professor at the Apor Vilmos Catholic University of Applied Sciences and an archivist and historian at the Hungarian National Archives. He studied sociology at the University of Szeged and then architectural history and monument preservation at the Budapest University of Technology (BME). His doctoral thesis deals with the historical urban landscape of several small towns around Košice. He has been intensively involved with the Danube for many years. He has written a book on the Danube urban landscapes of Vienna and Budapest and articles on smaller Danube towns. He has published internationally on Danube cities with borders and also on port facilities.
Dusan Marinkovic
Prof. Dr. Dušan Marinković is a professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and editor-in-chief of Mediterran Publishing House. His main areas of interest are sociological theory, sociology of knowledge and sociology of ideology. His other research interests include geoepistemology, the genealogy of Michel Foucault, the transformation of public space and the relationships between heterotopias, space and power.