Marko Zajc is a Senior Research Associate and Head of the Political History research programme (P6-0281). His research focuses on intellectual history, the history of political thought, and various perspectives on borders and the public sphere in Slovenian, (post-)Habsburg, (post-)Yugoslav, and (post-)socialist contexts from the nineteenth to the late twentieth century.
Between 2008 and 2023, he led three ARIS-funded basic research projects on administrative borders, border rivers, and the reuse of borders. He also participated in nine ARIS-funded projects addressing a range of topics, including Slovenia’s position within Yugoslavia, post-imperial transitions, communication inequalities in socialist Yugoslavia, schools and national/imperial identifications, and the history of suicide in Slovenia.
Since 2017, he has been teaching part-time at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, in Koper. He supervises the junior researcher Nesa Vrečer, research assistant Saša Hajzler, and MSCA postdoctoral fellow Dr Viktor Strazzeri.
Marko Zajc was twice an OeAD fellow in Vienna, in 2005–2006 and 2008–2009. In 2013, he held a DAAD fellowship in Berlin, and in 2014 he was a fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena.
He received his PhD from the University of Ljubljana in 2005 with a dissertation on Slovenian–Croatian relations and the border between 1830 and 1918.
He serves on advisory and editorial boards and regularly participates in scholarly and public discussions on political history, borders, and memory politics. He also presents his research and views in publications for broader audiences and in the public media.
