 Papić was appointed a lecturer in social anthropology at the university in 1989 and received her Ph.D. there in 1995.She died unexpectedly in Belgrade on 10 September 2002.Already a student activist, Papić was introduced to feminist theory at the Croatian Sociological
Association Conference in 1976 and then attended the first Women’s Studies course at the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia, later that year.