Bachelor’s degree in History and South Slavic Studies (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2016)
Master’s degree in Late Modern and Contemporary History (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2019)
One-year master’s degree in Comparative History (Central European University, Budapest/Vienna, 2020)
Doctoral degree in History and Civilization (European University Institute, Florence, 2024)
Employment
Institute of Contemporary History (2024-present)
Research Interests
I am a historian interested in the cultural, social, and political history of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the long nineteenth century and interwar periods. Most of my past research has been concerned with the history of collective identity formation in the region, with a particular emphasis on the history of nationalism and its reception from below.
In my recent doctoral thesis “From an “Imperial” to a “National” World? People, Administrators, and the Pursuit of Nationalism under Late Habsburg and Early Yugoslav Rule” (2024), I studied the changing everyday relevance of nationhood in two formerly Habsburg regions of the interwar Yugoslav state. The study approaches this topic through the prism of interactions between people and state administrators and thus offers insight into some hitherto neglected everyday aspects of life in interwar Central and Eastern Europe’s post-imperial nation-states.
As a postdoctoral researcher at the ERC project BeNaSta – Becoming National Against the State, I am currently working on the history of peasant engagement with Serb nationalism in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia during the last decades Habsburg rule.
Collaboration in Research Programs and Projects
ERC project BENASTA – Becoming National Against the State (2024–present)
“Beyond (Ethno)linguistic Determinism: Diverse Approaches to Nationalism in Habsburg-Austrian Schools.” Nationalities Papers, First View (2024): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2024.72.
“Contesting the Habsburg Empire in Everyday Life: The Habsburg Legacy as a Source of Everyday Conflict in Interwar Yugoslav Society.” In Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts, ed. Sebastian Fahner, Christian Feichtinger and Rogier E. M. Heijden, 243–258. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2024.
“The Portrayal of Muslims in Austro-Hungarian State Primary School Textbooks for Bosnia and Herzegovina.” In Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe: Representations, Transfers and Exchanges, ed. František Šístek, 92–103. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2021.
“The Treatment of History in Austrian-Hungarian State Primary School Textbooks for Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria Nowa, no. 50 (2018): 1–11.
