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Jelena Kupsjak is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar, Croatia. Her office is located at Šime Vitasovića 1, 23000 Zadar, SEP building, office 201/3. Contact details include email addresses jkupsjak@unizd.hr and jelena.kupsjak@gmail.com, and phone number 023/200-732.
Her research spans medical anthropology, gender studies, and digital anthropology with emphasis on mental health policies, cultural politics of happiness, and gender representation in digital media. Key interests include Croatian mental health systems, emotional regulation in women's lives, video game culture, and foundational anthropological concepts like kinship and identity. Her work critically examines intersections of health, technology, and social structures in contemporary society.
Analysis of her 2020-2024 publications reveals consistent focus on healthcare access through crowdfunding studies, pandemic-related political discourse, and happiness as regulatory mechanism. She bridges theoretical anthropology with urgent societal issues, particularly in Balkan contexts. Her German-language publications on core anthropological concepts indicate strong European theoretical engagement alongside regionally focused empirical work.
Scientific awards: None documented in available sources.
Advising and grant information remains unspecified in current documentation. No formal student mentorship listings or research funding acknowledgments appear in her profile. Her academic activities appear centered on independent research and departmental teaching responsibilities within the University of Zadar's ethnology framework.
Laboratory or team affiliations are not referenced. Her scholarly output suggests primarily solo-authored work with occasional international collaborations evident in multilingual publications, but no sustained research collectives or dedicated facilities are mentioned.
