Tihana Rubić, PhD, was born in Zagreb in 1978. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of University of Zagreb. In 2004 she graduated Ethnology and History of Art and in 2012 received her PhD in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.
Tihana is enrolled in teaching at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, holding seminars in the courses Basic Concepts of Croatian Ethnology, Ethnocultural Overview of the World, and Anthropology of Family and Kinship. She did research on a series of national and international projects and presented papers at about fifteen national and international conferences. She edited six books and published works in national and international publications.
Her scientific interests encompass the following areas: family and kinship, urban – rural sites and relations, unemployment, formal and informal labor markets.