NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
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Journal of Croatian Studies, XXIV,
1983, – Annual Review of the Croatian Academy of America, Inc. New York, N.Y.,
Electronic edition by Studia Croatica, by permission. All rights reserved
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ANTE KADIČ, Professor of
Slavic languages and literatures, Indiana University, Bloomington; special
field: South Slavic literatures. Published books: Croatian Reader with
Vocabulary, 2nd ed., 1960; Contemporary Croatian Literature, 1960; Contemporary
Serbian Literature, 1964; From Croatian Renaissance to Yugoslav
Socialism, 1969 (All these books were published by Mouton, The Hague,
Holland); The Tradition of Freedom in Croatian Literature, a collection
of essays (Bloomington, Indiana, 1983); Domovinska riječ (Message
from the Homeland, Barcelona, 1978) and Iseljena Hrvatska (The Emigre
Croatia, Chicago, 1979). He has ready for publication the second and third
volume of Domovinska riječ. He also edited together with prof.
Eekman a symposium on Križanić, 1974. He has contributed articles and
reviews in Slavic Review, London Slavonic Review, Slavic and
East European Journal, Journal of Croatian Studies, Croatia Press,
Hrvatska revija and Hrvatski glas. He participates regularly with
his contributions at the meetings of American Slavists and the International
Congresses of Slavic scholars. He is member of various professional
organizations.
MAY LEWIS (1878-1976), born in an
old New York family, started writing rather late in life. She wrote poems and
reviews and essays about poetry and was widely published in magazines. She is
the author of two books: Red Drumming in the Sun, published by Knopf,
and Prospects for Several Ways, a collection of her poems. She met
Meštrović in New York in 1924 and liked his work so much as to write this poem.
MATTHEW MEŠTROVIĆ, 53, is the
son of sculptor Ivan Meštrović. Matthew left Croatia in 1942, with his
parents, and spent the following years in Italy and Switzerland. In 1947, he
came with his father and mother to the U.S., did undergraduate work and earned
a M.A. in history from Syracuse University, where his father was sculptor in
residence till 1955. Matthew received a Ph.D. in Modern European History from
Columbia University in 1957. From 1954 to 1956, he served in the PsyWar branch
of the U.S. Army, in North Carolina and Hawaii. For a decade after completing
his studies, Matthew Meštrović worked in journalism, for three years as a
Contributing Editor of Time. Since 1967, he has been teaching in the
History and Political Science Department of Fairleigh Dickinson University in
New Jersey, where he is a full professor. Matthew Meštrović is the author
of two textbooks, has edited several volumes, and has written numerous articles
on political subjects for popular magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals.
Currently he is the President of the Executive Committee of the Croatian
National Congress, a world-wide political organization supporting Croat
independence.
KARLO MIRTH, Manager of Research
Information Center, Foster Wheeler Corporation, Livingston, N.J., has master's
degrees in engineering from the University of Zagreb and in library science
from Columbia University. He was president of the Croatian Academy of America
(1958-1968) and is managing editor of the Journal of Croatian Studies
and publisher of Croatia Press.
MICHAEL MULNIX, Assistant to the
Chancellor at the University of Alaska-Juneau, has worked as a journalist and
free-lance writer for a number of years. He is currently working on an advanced
degree at the University of Notre Dame.
ANTUN NIZETEO, author, poet, and
translator, born in Croatia, he worked at Fordham, Columbia and Cornell
University libraries. He is one of the founders of the Croatian Academy of
America, and president of the Croatian international publishing house ZIRAL (Chicago,
Rome, Zürich).
JOSEPH E. O'CONNOR, was born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1937. He was an undergraduate student in history
at the University of Notre Dame during the years Ivan Meštrović taught
there, receiving his B.A. from Notre Dame in 1959. In 1968 he received his
Ph.D. in Russian History from the University of Virginia. He is currently an
Associate Professor of History at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio,
and is working on a biography of Meštrović.
DEAN A. PORTER, received his degrees from the State University of New York at Binghamton, B.A., 1961; M.A. 1966; Ph.D., 1974. He has been at the University of Notre Dame since 1966 as curator of collections from 1966 to 1973 and director of The Snite Museum of Art from 1974 to the present. He has organized two exhibitions on Meštrović, 1974 and 1983, and has written catalogues for both. Porter has also lectured extensively on Meštrović.
BOGDAN RADITSA (RADICA), Professor
Emeritus, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and American-Croatian writer, is the
author of the books: Colloqui con Guglielmo Ferrero, Capolago, 1939; Agonija
Evrope [Agony of Europe], Belgrade, 1940 (this volume includes the author's
conversations with Guglielmo Ferrerro, Benedetto Croce, Thomas Mann, Paul
Valery, Miguel de Unamuno, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Maksim Gorki and others); Sredozemni
povratak [Mediterranean Return], Munchen-Barcelona, 1971; Hrvatska 1945
[Croatia 1945] Munchen-Barcelona, 1974; and the autobiography Živjeti
nedoživjeti [Live—not to Live Up], Munchen-Barcelona, 1983. The Journal
of Croatian Studies published Raditsa's study "Risorgimento and the
Croatian Question, Tommaseo and Kvaternik" (Vol. 5-6, 1964-65, p. 3-144)
which was also published as a reprint. Raditsa contributed to numerous Croatian
and Serbian periodicals published before World War II in Yugoslavia and during
and after the war to American and Croatian language diaspora publications.
These include Reader's Digest and others.
LAURENCE E. SCHMECKEBIER,
Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts and former Dean of the School of Art, Syracuse
University, Syracuse, New York, is the author of the book Ivan
Meštrović, Sculptor and Patriot (Syracuse University Press, 1959). He
is also the author of the books: Handbook of Italian Painting (1938), Modern
Mexican Art (1939), John Steuart Curry's Pageant of America (1943), Appreciation
of Art (1945), Art in Red Wing (1946), The Art of A. Henry
Nordhausen (1980) and A New Handbook of Italian Renaissance (1981).
CHRISTOPHER SPALATIN, Professor
Emeritus of modern languages. Studied at universities of Zagreb and Paris;
received Ph.D. from the University of Zagreb in 1934. Taught at the
universities of Zagreb, Rome and Naples, Iowa Wesleyan College and Marquette.
Contributed to scholarly journals in English, French, Italian and Croatian.
Associate editor of Croatia: Land, People, Culture published by the
University of Toronto Press.
MARVIN TATUM is Humanities
Librarian of the Cornell University Libraries. With his colleague Antun Nizeteo
he has translated a number of prose and poetical texts from Croatian into
English.
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