Dr. Ivana Radačić is an adjunct faculty member with the Human Rights Practice Program at the University of Arizona. A human rights academic and activist based in Zagreb, Croatia, she is the former Vice-Chair of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls. During the 2023-23 academic year, Dr Radačić was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Arizona, undertaking a research and teaching project on spiritual activism, self-care, collective care and human rights. She is also a research advisor at Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences in Zagreb and a part-time lecturer at the University of Osijek. 

Ivana holds a PhD in law from the University of London, MPhil in criminological research from the University of Cambridge and LLM from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the University of Zagreb. For her post-doctoral project at the University of Melbourne she was awarded Endeavor Research Award. She was a visiting lecturer at different universities in Europe, Central America, Australia and New Zealand. She has also been a lecturer and a fellow at the Women’s Studies Center in Zagreb and the Women’s Human Rights Training Institute for the Central and Eastern Europe region in Sofia.

Her research and teaching areas are women’s rights and gender equality; international human rights; gender, sexuality and the law; and self-care, collective care and human rights. Her most recent four-year research project (2019-2023), funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, was on regulation of sex work in Croatia, and she previously lead a comparative project on sex work, funded by the International Social Research Foundation (2015-2017). She was a member of the European Union COST action Comparing European Prostitution Policies (2013-2017). 

Biographical details correct as of 21.05.26