Janja Sedlaček, PhD

Education

• MA in history and journalism: University of Ljubljana, 2004, diploma thesis: Slovenian national reconciliation in newspapers (1984-1997)
• PhD in history: University of Ljubljana, 2016, doctoral thesis: Regional development in Slovenia in the 20th century

Research Interests

Areas of research: contemporary economic history, in particular:

• regional development and regional disparities,
• migration processes and their economic causes and consequences,
• economic history of border areas,
• environmental history

Collaboration in research programmes

• member of the research program group Economic, Social and Environmental History of Slovenia

Selected projects

She is currently involved in the following projects:

• Migration and social transformation in comparative perspective – The case of Western Slovenia after WWII
• Migration and development in the mountain borderlands of Switzerland and Slovenia: a comparative perspective (18th-20th c.)

Selected publications:

• SEDLAČEK, Janja. “Proč s šmarnico”. Zgodovina za vse : vse za zgodovino. 2007, 14, no. 2, p. 89-105. http://hdl.handle.net/11686/1900.
• SEDLAČEK, Janja. Narodna sprava v slovenskih časopisih. Borec : revija za zgodovino, literaturo in antropologijo. 2006, 58, no. 630-634, p. 9-60.
• SEDLAČEK, Janja. Slovenska narodna sprava v ogledalu časopisja (1984-1997). Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino. 2006, 46, no. 1, p. 431-446. http://hdl.handle.net/11686/1391.
• SEDLAČEK, Janja. Razvitost in razvoj občine Maribor in Podravske regije v času druge Jugoslavije. In: OSET, Željko (ed.), BERBERIH-SLANA, Aleksandra (ed.), LAZAREVIĆ, Žarko (ed.). Mesto in gospodarstvo: mariborsko gospodarstvo v 20. stoletju. Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino; Maribor: Muzej narodne osvoboditve, 2010. p. 577-591.
• SEDLAČEK, Janja. Regionalne razlike v Dravski banovini. In: LAZAREVIĆ, Žarko (ed.), LORENČIČ, Aleksander (ed.). Podobe modernizacije: poglavja iz gospodarske in socialne modernizacije Slovenije v 19. in 20. stoletju. Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 2009. p. 79-111. Zbirka Razpoznavanja, 8. http://hdl.handle.net/11686/38007.