Neja Blaj Hribar

Research interests:

• historical demography
• digital humanities
• political relations, ideologies, nationalism (from 2/2 half of 19^th century onward)
• migrations (from 2/2 half of 19^th century onward)
• intellectual history, literary history (from 2/2 half of 19^th century onward)

Education:

• MA in history and comparative literature, University of Ljubljana (2013) | Master Thesis: “Clericals in Liberal Literature and Journalism (1890-1914)”
• PhD candidate, University of Ljubljana | PhD title: “Immigrants from the Yugoslav Lands in Ljubljana in the First Half of the 20^th Century”

Employments:

• Historical Archive of Ljubljana (December 2015 – April 2016)
• Institute of Contemporary History (May 2016 – )

Research programmes and projects:

• Women on the Move (WEMov) (COST)
• Research Infrastructure of Institute of Contemporary History (INZ)
• Military deaths of World War One in Slovenia, coordinator (INZ)
• Historical population censuses of Slovenia 1830 – 1931, leader (2019-) (INZ)
• Schools and Imperial, National, and Transnational Identifications: Habsburg Empire, Yugoslavia, and Slovenia (ARRS)
• Creating, Maintaining, Reusing. Border Commissions as the Key for Understanding Contemporary Borders – CREMARE (ARSS)

Selected publications:

BLAJ HRIBAR, Neja. Ljubomir Dušanov Jurković : the question of yugoslavism. In: Political transformations in the interwar period : the case of Slovenian political thought, edited by GRUBAČKI, Isidora and ZAJC, Marko. Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 2026. Pp. 115-126. Vpogledi, 30. https://omp.inz.si/zalozba/sl/catalog/view/164/371/1598

BLAJ HRIBAR, Neja. Unutrašnje migracije u Kraljevini SHS/Jugoslaviji : studija slučaja Ljubljane i doseljenika iz drugih banovina. In: Nova istraživanja jugoslovenske prošlosti : perspektive sa postjugoslovenskog prostora : tematski zbornik, edited by DIMIĆ, Natalija et al. Beograd: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, 2025. Pp. 459-486, ilustr. Biblioteka Zbornici radova, br. 29. https://inis.bg.ac.rs/lat/uploaded/tematski%20zbornici/2025/Nova%20istrazivanja/20%20Neja%20Blaj%20Hribar%20459-486.pdf.

BLAJ HRIBAR, Neja. Popisi prebivalstva 1857 – 1931 : predstavitev vira, podatki in analiza. [Population Censuses 1857–1931: Presentation of the Source, Data, and Analysis]. The Contributions to Contemporary History 62, no. 3, (2022): 8-29. https://ojs.inz.si/pnz/article/view/4063/4567, DOI: 10.51663/pnz.62.3.01.

BLAJ HRIBAR, Neja. Socialni program KNS/SLS skozi prizmo Slovenskega naroda (1890-1914) [The KNS/SLS Social Programme through the Prism of the Slovenski Narod Newspaper (1890-1914)]. The Contributions to Contemporary History 57, no. 1 (2017): 112-124. http://ojs.inz.si/pnz/article/view/209/350

BLAJ HRIBAR, Neja. “On bo seveda prihodnjič inseriral” : oglaševanje v Slovenskem narodu in Slovencu na prelomu 19. in 20. stoletja. In: Od prvih oglasov do interneta : k zgodovini oglaševanja na Slovenskem, edited by STUDEN, Andrej. Ljubljana: Institute of Contemporary History, 2016, Pp. 59-71. Colletcion Perspicacités, 13. https://www.sistory.si/11686/43092

BLAJ HRIBAR, Neja, SEVER, Kristina (author of introduction, etc., editor). Long live progress, long live light! : a history of the electrification of Ljubljana. Ljubljana: Elektro, 2020.