Dinko Župan is Research scientist in the Department of the Croatian Institute of History in Slavonski Brod. The main area of his research works is the history of education and cultural history in Croatia from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. He obtained his dissertation thesis Education of Women in Croatia from 1868–1918 at the History Department, Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 2006. The book based on his PH. D. dissertation Mentalni korzet. Spolna politika obrazovanja žena u Banskoj Hrvatskoj (1868–1918) was published in 2013 by Faculty of Education in Osijek. He researches cultural aspects of education such as student standard, discipline, students’ diaries, school ceremonies and rituals, building student subjectivity and identity (gender, social, national, etc.), the gender aspect of education and the history of reading. Among his publications: “Odnos prema tijelu unutar hrvatskog školskog sustava druge polovine 19. st.” («Radovi Zavoda zahrvatsku povijest», 40, 2008, pp. 189–210); “Foucaultova teorija mo´ci i kritika pojma rod” («Casopis za suvremenu povijest», 1, 2009, pp. 7–24); “Dobre ku´canice – Obrazovanje djevojaka u Slavoniji tijekom druge polovice 19. stolje´ca” («Scrinia Slavonica», 9, 2009, pp. 232–256); “Živio svijetli ban! Kako je u školskim spomenicama i izvještajima zabilježen posjet bana Dragutina Khuena–Héderváry nekim mjestima Virovitiˇcke županije 1889. i 1893” («Scrinia Slavonica», 10, 2010, pp 212–225); “Books I have read – Dora Pejaˇcevi´c kao citateljica” («Scrinia Slavonica», 12, 2012, pp. 115–177).
