Kisić-Kolanović, Nada, Croatian historian (Šibenik, 11. IX. 1949). She graduated (1972) and received her doctorate (1988) from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. She is a scientific advisor and head of the Department of Contemporary History at the Croatian Institute of History in Zagreb, where she has worked since 1973. She deals with contemporary Croatian history during World War II (1941–45). She has researched the issues of the state and legal formation of communist government in Croatia, with a focus on the history of the National Anti-Fascist Council of the National Liberation of Croatia (Andrija Hebrang: Illusions and Sobering Up, 1996), and in her more recent research she has devoted herself to the political and diplomatic history of the Independent State of Croatia: Mladen Lorković: Minister Conspirator (1998), NDH and Italy (2001), Zagreb–Sofia (2003), Muslims and Croatian Nationalism 1941–1945. (2009) et al.