Zrinka Stahuljak is a Croatian historian based in the United States. She worked as a fixer during the Croatian War of Independence and emigrated to the United States, obtaining her doctorate from Emory University becoming a scholar of medieval studies. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2020 corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, she is author of Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages (2005), Pornographic Archaeology (2012), and Les Fixeurs au Moyen Âge (2020), as well as co-editor of Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World (2013). She is a full professor at University of California, Los Angeles.