Iva Grubiša is a research and teaching assistant at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She graduated from the same faculty in 2016 with a degree in ethnology and cultural anthropology and sociology. In 2026, she defended her doctoral dissertation in the field of ethnology and anthropology, titled Creating a Home: Contemporary Experiences of Refugees in the City of Zagreb. Alongside her doctoral studies, she completed the three-year international doctoral programme Transformations in European Societies (carried out at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). She is the author of the book A Taste of Home: The Cultural-Anthropological Overview of Migrant Integration in Zagreb (2019). Since 2019, she has been employed at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, where she is engaged in teaching in the undergraduate programme. She is a member of the editorial board of HED-biblioteka, the publishing series of the Croatian Ethnological Society. Her research interests include home-making practices, the anthropology of urban everyday life, refugee studies, and the anthropology of futures.