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Bibliographic research performance and CRIS ORCID
Research Areas:
- Cultural History
- Humanism and Renaissance
- Venetian history
- Early modern history
- Historical anthropology
Biography:
Tilen Glavina, PhD, is a research associate in Early Modern History at the Science and Research Centre (ZRS) Koper, Slovenia, where he serves as Head of the Institute for Historical Studies and Deputy Director of ZRS Koper. He is also Head of the Centre for Venetian History and Cultural Heritage and Editor-in-Chief of Annales University Press. Since 2025, he holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI) in Piran.
He earned his PhD in 2015 at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, Koper, with the dissertation “Hieronimo Mutio Iustinopolitano”: A Renaissance Intellectual between Humanism and Counter-Reformation. His research training included extended stays at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, USA) under the bilateral Slovenia-USA project Witnesses and Testimonies of the Past, led by Prof. Edward Muir, and doctoral research in Venice, Rome, Florence, and Padua. In 2023, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship as visiting researcher at Northwestern University.
His research interests include cultural history, humanism and the Renaissance, Venetian history, early modern history, historical anthropology, legal history, history of emotions, history of institutions, cultural heritage, and entangled histories. He has conducted archival research in the Archivio Centrale dello Stato (Rome), Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Trieste, Venezia, and Padova, as well as in the Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede and the Archivio Segreto Vaticano in the Vatican City.
He has served as Management Committee member in two COST Actions: PIMo – People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492–1923) (CA18140), contributing to the working group “Paper in Motion,” and Who Cares in Europe? (CA18119), both joining scholars from more than 25 European countries.
Glavina has extensive experience in international project coordination. He is currently lead partner and project coordinator at ZRS Koper for KAŠTellieri (Interreg Italy-Slovenia 2021–2027, €1,364,133.46; 2024–2026) and for RecapMCV – Innovative Experiences of Cross-border Natural and Cultural Heritage (Interreg Italy-Slovenia 2021–2027, €749,373.20; 2023–2025). He previously coordinated the strategic project MerlinCV (Interreg Italy-Slovenia 2014–2020, €2,583,296.29; 2019–2021). Additional project involvement includes Europe for Citizens programmes (BURNS: Burnt in Memories; RootsID) and Central Europe (CCurtain).
In 2021, as Head of the Centre for Venetian History and Cultural Heritage, he secured national funding for the reconstruction of the 15th-century Venetian Tiepolo-Gravisi Palace in Koper, where the Centre was inaugurated in May 2023.
He has authored the scientific monograph Mutio Justinopolitano: vzpon koprskega intelektualca Girolama Muzia na italijanskih renesančnih dvorih 16. stoletja (ZRS Koper, Annales ZRS, 2021) and original scientific articles indexed in WoS and Scopus. Since 2025, he serves on the editorial board of the Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine series (Palgrave Macmillan).
He has co-organised numerous international scientific conferences in Koper.
He is a member of the Renaissance Society of America, the Historical Society for Southern Primorska, and serves as Vice-President of the cultural society Dante Alighieri Capodistria. Since 2025, he is Vice-President of the Management Board of the Regional Archives Koper.
