Josipa Alviž
PhD, assistant professor
Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Josipa Alviž (born in 1980) graduated in Art History and Ethnology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 2006. She received her PhD degree in Art History from the same University in 2015 with the thesis entitled Slikarstvo XVII. i XVIII. stoljeća u kapucinskim crkvama i samostanima u Hrvatskoj (Paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries in the Capuchin Churches and Monasteries in Croatia; supervisor: prof. Ph.D. S. Cvetnić).
Since 2008 she has worked at the Department of Art History as a member of a Chair of Methodology of Teaching Art History and a research assistant on the scientific project Paintings and sculptures of the 17th and 18th centuries in Continental Croatia (from 2008 to 2013, leader: prof. Ph.D. S. Cvetnić, funded by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport).
From 2014 to 2017, she participated in a group of scientific projects led by associate professor Dragan Damjanović and funded by University of Zagreb: Painting in Croatia from 18th to 20th century in the context of Central European Art (2014), Artistic Heritage of Croatia from Baroque to Postmodern Period – artistic connections, import of artworks, collections I (2015), Artistic Heritage of Croatia from Baroque to Postmodern Period – artistic connections, import of artworks, collections II (2016) and Artistic Heritage of Croatia from Baroque to Postmodern Period – artistic connections, import of artworks III (2017). In 2014 she has participated in teaching project IPAQ V.: Affirmative and Innovative Learning and Teaching in Gymnasiums based on the Croatian Qualifications Framework (organised by V Gymnasium in Zagreb, co-financed by EU). In July 2008, she participated in the summer course From Holy War to Peaceful Co-Habitation. Diversity of crusading and the Military Orders at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest.
Since 2008, she has been teaching several compulsory and elective courses in MA programme at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Since 2016, she teaches compulsory course History of Art in BA programme at the Department of Ornamental Plants, Landscape Architecture and Garden Art, Faculty of Agriculture.
Since 2012, she has been an associate of The National Centre for External Evaluation of Education, working as a grader of graduation exams, member of the expert group for drafting the state graduation exams and the exam catalogue in Visual Arts.
In 2015 she was appointed member of the expert group for composing the Proposal of the National Curriculum For The Subjects Of Visual Culture And Visual Arts, made within the framework of the Comprehensive Curriculum Reform. In 2016 she was appointed an expert associate on the educational project Creating Common Core Curriculum for ART based on Learning Outcomes supported by a non-profit organisation Save the Children International and conducted by the Agency for Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary Education of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Since 2015, she is a member of examination committee for professional/vocational examination for Visual Arts teachers (Education and Teacher Training Agency, Zagreb). Since 2016, she is a member of professional commitee for recognition of the working rights and professional regulation for art history teachers.
She participated in several scientific conferences and held several public lectures. Her fields of professional interest include methodology of teaching art history, history of teaching art history, visual studies and art of the 17th and 18th century.