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Visiting Fellowship 2026/27

Deni Dagalev

PhD candidate, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Italy

Deni Dagalev is a PhD candidate in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples, Italy. His research examines the political ecology of forest exploitation and timber trade in interwar Yugoslavia, tracing how forests were drawn into processes of state-building, capitalist accumulation, and global commodity exchange. He holds a graduate degree in Political Theory from the University of Ljubljana. During his studies in Ljubljana, he was actively involved at the Institute for Ecology, where he collaborated with an interdisciplinary group (foresters, microbiologists, hydrologists) on several projects exploring fungi in soil decontamination, green citizenship, and sustainable development. Bringing political theory into conversation with global history, he approaches forests not simply as natural resources but as sites where state power, markets, labor, and ecological relations were mutually constituted.

Statement of interest:

My return to Ljubljana provides an opportunity to further my research on the political ecology of forest exploitation and timber trade in interwar Yugoslavia, while engaging it with broader scholarship on the environmental history of Southeastern and Central Europe. The primary focus of this visit is the exploration and analysis of archival material pertaining to the timber industry in Slovenia. I expect to enhance this pursuit in close dialogue with the colleagues from the Economic, Social and Environmental History Programme at the Institute.

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