Nataša Urošević

Nataša Urošević is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Tourism, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia. She specializes in cultural heritage management, sustainable tourism, and European cultural identity studies. Her academic roles include teaching courses on Croatian cultural history, heritage management, and special interest tourism.

Dr. Urošević holds a PhD from the University of Rijeka (2012), with prior degrees from the University of Padua (Italy) and the University of Pula. She has contributed to EU projects such as ADRIFORT and ArchaeoCulTour, focusing on fortified heritage and archaeological tourism. Her research emphasizes transnational cultural routes, stakeholder participation in heritage management, and post-pandemic tourism recovery strategies.

Key research interests include:

• Sustainable development of cultural heritage sites
• Urban regeneration in historic Mediterranean cities
• Cultural identity articulation through tourism
• Transnational heritage networks and European identity

She has organized major conferences like the 2018 Borders and Crossings Conference on Travel Writing and the FORTIC International Conference. Her awards include the Richard Plaschka Fellowship (Austria) and Thesaurus Poloniae Fellowship (Poland) for projects on Adriatic heritage and urban regeneration.

Before academia, she worked as a journalist for Jutarnji list and in publishing for a decade, contributing to media promotion of cultural tourism destinations like Brijuni Islands.