Maja Lukanc, PhD

Research interests:

• Political, diplomatic and cultural history of Eastern Europe in the Cold War
• Cultural diplomacy and transnational exchange | Friendship in international relations
• State-society relations in communist regimes | Popular opinion in authoritarian regimes
• AIDS and LGBT+ histories in socialist Slovenia and Yugoslavia
• History of Yugoslavia | History of Poland

Education:

• PhD in Contemporary History | University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts | 2015—2020 | Doctoral Thesis: Polish-Yugoslav relations between 1945 and 1956 | Supervisors Professor Aleš Gabrič and Professor Kornelija Ajlec
• MA in Medieval History | University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts | 2007—2015 | Master Thesis: Anna of Celje (Cilli): A biography framework | Supervisor Academic Professor Peter Štih

Academic honours:

• Award for the best Doctoral Thesis in Field of Humanities by University of Ljubljana | 2020
• University Prešern Award for the outstanding Master Thesis | 2015

Fellowships and mobility:

• Josef Dobrovský Fellowship for Foreign Researchers | 2022 | Prague, Czech Republic | Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Pipes Laboratory Scholarship for Foreign Researchers | 2022 | Warsaw, Poland | Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Fulbright Visiting Scholar | 2019—2020 | College Park, USA | University of Maryland | Supervisor Professor Piotr K. Kosicki

Research programmes and projects :

• Gender and Intellectual History in Serbian and Slovenian Periodical Press in the 20th Century | Bilateral project Slovenia-Serbia (principal investigator for Slovenian part of the project)
• Prospects and boundaries of international friendship: Polish-Yugoslav relations between 1956 and 1968 | Z6-4605 Slovenian Research Agency postdoctoral research project (principal investigator)
• Political History | P6‐0281 Slovenian Research Agency research programme (participant)
• Sin, Shame, Symptom: Suicide and its perceptions in Slovenia (1850–2000) | J6-3123 Slovenian Research Agency research project (participant)
• Creating, Maintaining, Reusing: Border Commissions as the Key for Understanding Contemporary Borders | J6-2574 Slovenian Research Agency research project (participant)

Selected publications:

• AIDS-related gay activism in socialist Slovenia and its transnational context, 1984-1991 | Journal of the History of Sexuality (forthcoming)
• A myriad of attitudes: Polish popular response to the Tito-Stalin split | Journal of Cold War Studies (forthcoming)
• Aids po jugoslovansko? Začetni odziv na aids v Sloveniji in Jugoslaviji (1984–1987) | Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino 61/3 (2021), 15–42.
• Kongresi Zveze komunistov Jugoslavije kot legitimacijsko orodje komunistične oblasti (1958–1978) | Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino 61/1 (2021), 102–120.
• Produkcija diplomatskega védenja v jugoslovanski in poljski povojni diplomatski praksi (1945–1947) | Studia Historica Slovenica 20/3 (2020), 735–771.
• Ana Celjska | Zgodovinski časopis 71/1-4 (2017), 30–68 in 382–427.