Niksa Spremic

Croatia

MSc Economic and Social History, 2011
Exeter College
Funding: Weidenfeld

Niksa received his Bachelor’s degree in History and History of Art from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he graduated with honours. He completed his MPhil in Economic and Social History from Oxford as a Weidenfeld Scholar in 2011.

He was awarded several prestigious scholarships and in 2008 received the Croatian President’s Award for Excellence. In the academic year 2008-09, Niksa was an Open Society Institute Fellow at Duke University in the United States. At his alma mater in Croatia, he started a student magazine aimed at fighting bribery in the Croatian higher education system. In 2007, he co-authored a documentary series and handbook on visual art. His research interests were mainly focused on the medieval economic and social history, Church history and theology. At Oxford, Niksa focused his research on the slave trade in medieval Mediterranean societies.

Niksa served as a Political Advisor and Head of Office to a Member of the European Parliament. He completed a doctoral degree in history at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, examining the diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the European Union in the Postwar era.

The Trust was saddened to hear of Niksa’s death in 2018.