Nebojša Blanuša is Professor of Social and Political Psychology and Theories of Nationalism at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He is a member of the FP7 project Social Performance, Cultural Trauma and Reestablishing Solid Sovereignties (SPECTRESS), dealing with the formation of conspiracy theories as collective narratives regarding cultural traumas, provoked by crises and wars. Another project he is involved in is the “Team Populism”, the network of international scholars, dealing with various aspects of populism, especially anti-elitist conspiracy theories. He is the author of Conspiracy Theories and Croatian Political Reality 1980-2007 (Plejada, 2011 - in Croatian), co-editor of EU, Europe Unfinished: Mediating Europe and the Balkans in a Time of Crisis (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016) and the editor of the special issue of Croatian Political Science Review titled Faces of Cultural Trauma (2017, Vol. 54: 1-2).
