Bachelor’s degree in History and Russian Studies (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2016)
Master’s degree in Late Modern and Contemporary History (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2019)
Doctoral degree History of Europe and the Mediterranean (Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, 2024)
Employment
Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana (2019–present)
Research interests
In my research work, I interweave topics from economic, social and environmental history with cultural history and memory studies. I am interested in the historical interactions of man with the space that surrounds him, and the mechanisms of how they shape each other, especially for the Slovenian lands in the period from Austria-Hungary up to and including socialist Yugoslavia.
In the field of economic history, as part of my dissertation and subsequent research, I explored legal, judicial, and social framework of bankruptcies and financial collapses of Slovenian entrepreneurs in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as with the role of national identities and economic nationalism in Slovenian economic life. The most important contribution in the field of social history is research on partisan suicides during the Second World War and the complex relationship that socialist Yugoslavia cultivated towards this phenomenon. I research environmental history through several topics, such as floods and droughts.
In the field of memorial studies, I am particularly interested in public monuments and the complex, even conflicting, relationships that develop between their initiators, creators, and the public over time. I wrote several articles dealing with individual examples of Slovenian memorials, as well as a monograph on interpretations of the life and work of poet France Prešeren during the period of socialist Yugoslavia.
In the postdoctoral project, which I started in March 2026, I combine the two main areas of my research, as I thematize the planting of memorial trees dedicated to political leaders and events in Slovenia from Austria-Hungary to independent state.
Collaboration in research programs and projects
Research program Economic, social and environmental history of Slovenia (2019–present)
Research program Research infrastructure of Slovenian historiography (2024–present)
Sin, shame, symptom: suicide and its perceptions in Slovenia (1850–2000) (2021–2025)
Discourses and practices of the in-between in the Alps-Adriatic region: Klagenfurt, Ljubljana Trieste 1815–1914. A transnational, interdisciplinary co-research project (2023–2026)
Politicalness of a tree: planting of memorial trees and political treescape in Slovenia between 1879 and 2021 (2026–2028)
Selected publications
»Če me vidiš, jokaj.«: kamni lakote kot znanilci suše v srednji Evropi [‘If you see me, cry.’: Hunger stones as harbingers of drought in Central Europe]. In: Suše v zgodovini in njihov vpliv na okolje, družbo in prebivalstvo, ed. Dunja Dobaja, pp. 9–30. Ljubljana: Institute of Contemporary History, 2025.
Spomen-ploča Janezu/Ivanu Mačeku: između politike i nacija [Memorial plaque to Janez/Ivan Maček: Between politics and the nation]. Časopis za suvremenu povijest 57, No. 2 (2025): pp. 327–363.
»Obravnava, kakoršna še ni bila v Ljubljani«: finančna afera Terezije Aristoteles leta 1874 [‘A trial like no other in Ljubljana’: The financial affair of Terezija Aristoteles in 1874]. V: Zbornik Andreja Studna 64, No. 1 (2024): pp. 238–266.
»We ourselves proudly chose death«: The concept of heroic partisan suicide in Slovenia in the Yugoslav context. Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino 64, No. 2 (2024): pp. 187–224.
Lovorovi gozdovi in krompir: Prešernov kult v socializmu [Laurel groves and potatoes: Prešeren’s cult in socialism]. Ljubljana: Institute of Contemporary History, 2021.
