Staff

Kornelija AJLEC, PhD, Assistant Professor

In 2009 she completed a single honours degree in history at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana; there she enrolled in the doctoral study of Humanities and Social Sciences - course History in the same year. Between 2010 and 2013 she was employed at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts as an early-stage researcher; in 2011 she was elected Assistant for Contemporary Slovenian and General History. She completed her doctoral study in 2013 with the dissertation Relationships between Refugees from Yugoslavia and UNRRA in Egypt, 1943–1946. She is participating in numerous research projects; she has been lecturing at the Department of History since 2014. She became an assistant professor in 2015. She researches contemporary history, mainly the period of World War II and the post-war period. She is focusing on the history of international organisations and the international connections of Yugoslavia. In addition, she is actively researching genealogy and family history. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Bojan BALKOVEC, PhD, Assistant Professor

He studied history and sociology at the Faculty of Arts and became employed at the Department of History after graduating in 1987. He started out as a researcher trainee, in 1989 became an assistant for history and from 2000 onwards is an assistant professor of contemporary history. He mostly researches Slovenian history and the history of Yugoslav nations between both world wars. He obtained his master's degree in 1990 on the topic Operation of the National and Provincial Government of SHS in Ljubljana and in 1998 obtained a PhD with the thesis Parliamentary Elections in Yugoslavia from 1920 to 1938, with special emphasis on Slovenia. Between 2001 and 2005 he was the president of the History Committee under the National Assessment of Knowledge in Nine-Year Elementary School. In the 2007–2009 mandate he was the head of the Department of History. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Martin BENEDIK, lecturer He studied Latin and German at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana between 1969 and 1974. He taught Latin in elementary schools in Ljubljana and Škofja Loka, and German at workers' universities. He has been a Latin teacher since 1975; he holds Latin classes for students of Romance studies, archaeology, history and history of art. He is a part-time lecturer of veterinary and medical terminology at the Veterinary Faculty; since 1993 he has been lecturing Latin at the Faculty of Theology in Ljubljana. He has published several technical articles in the publications Linguistika, Vestnik of Društvo za tuje jezike, Živa antika, Medicinski razgledi and in the journal Keria. He has translated natural science, history, medical and other technical texts from Latin. He also translated from German and into German. He took part in the preparation of the Dictionary of Legal Terminology. In 2002 he was appointed Court Interpreter for Latin by the Minister of Justice. He collects Latin inscriptions of modern periods and passes them on to history students. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Maja BOŽIČ, MA In 2006 she graduated at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, mentored by Prof Dušan Nečak, PhD. She became employed in the library of the Department of History in the same year. She passed her library science examination in 2007 and obtained a mutual cataloguing licence in 2009. She is researching the history of migrations after World War II. She obtained her master's degree in 2013. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Rajko BRATOŽ, PhD, Full Professor

After elementary school in Branik (1958–1960) and Dutovlje (1960–1966) he attended general secondary school in Nova Gorica (1966–1970); afterwards he enrolled in a joint honours study of history and geography at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana (1970–1975). In 1976 he became an assistant for History of Antiquity at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts. In 1979 he completed his master's study and in 1981 graduated in Latin Language and Literature. In 1986 he became a Doctor of

Philosophy in Historical Sciences and in the same year an assistant professor of History of Antiquity; in 1990 he was appointed associate professor and in 1995 full professor of History of Antiquity at the University of Ljubljana. Between 1991 and 1993 he was the head of the Department of History. He took courses in Italy (Italian government scholarship 1982/83), in Germany (Humboldt Area Foundation scholarship 1990/91 and 2011, DAAD scholarship in 2002) and in Austria (multiple visits to various institutions of the University of Vienna since 1978; Knafelj scholarship, 1992 Jireček scholarship). He lectured at the University of Salzburg (1995) and the University of Klagenfurt (1996) as visiting lecturer. As an invited lecturer, he has held around 30 lectures at various German universities, and several lectures in Austria, Italy (including the Vatican), Hungary and the Czech Republic. In 1995 he became an associate member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a full member in 2001. In this institution he functioned as the head of the Department of Historical Sciences in the 1996–2002 and 2005–2008 periods, and in the 1999–2002 and 2005–2008 periods as the secretary-general of the Section of Historical and Social Sciences. He is a member of several professional societies at home and abroad. He was the main organiser of two and co-organiser of one international symposium. Between 2007 and 2009 he was the representative of Slovenia in the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation. He is a member of over ten national and international professional and scientific societies as a connoisseur of Late Antiquity. The two most important societies are Görres-Gesellschaft in Bonn and Association pour l'Antiquité Tardive in Paris. In 2010 he was elected a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute, based in Berlin. His pedagogical work brought about a research and journalistic project of reviews of individual periods of ancient history, which are being used as university textbooks: (1) Greek History (reprint of the 3rd edition 2015); (2) Roman History 1 (From the Beginnings to Diocletian (2007); (3) Between Italy and Illyricum. Slovenian Territory and the Neighbouring Areas in Late Antiquity (2014). His comprehensive bibliography (of which some 100 works were published abroad, mostly in Germany, Italy with the Vatican and in Austria) relates to various aspects of the

historical development in Late Antiquity in the territory of Northeast Italy, Northern Adriatic, Eastern Alps, central Danube region and Western Balkans. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Alenka CEDILNIK, PhD, Assistant Professor

In 1989 she enrolled in the study of history and ancient Greek at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, which she completed in 1998 with the diploma thesis Pannonia Secunda and Its Bishop Valens in Reports by Socrates Sholastic, for which she received the Prešeren Award for Students of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In the same year she received a Greek government scholarship and attended an intensive one-month course in Modern Greek at the University Unit of Rhodes. In 1998 she obtained the status of an early-stage researcher and was at first employed at the Milko Kos Historical Institute at ZRC SAZU; after 2000 she continued her work at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In 1999 she again received a Greek government scholarship and attended a seminar on Greek language and culture at the University of Patras. In the following year she perfected her knowledge of Modern Greek at the University of Athens, where she attended an intensive language course with the aid of a scholarship awarded to her by the said university. She completed her master's study in 2001 and her doctoral study in 2003. In 2006 her book Ilyricum between Constantine the Great and Theodosius the Great received the Klio Award for the best published work of Slovenian historiography in the last two years. In 2008 she became employed at the Department of History as an assistant for Ancient History and History of Antiquity. In 2010 she obtained the title of assistant professor. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Ana CERGOL PARADIŽ, PhD, Teaching Assistant

After finishing general secondary school in Koper, she enrolled in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, from which she graduated in 2008 and obtained the professional title Professor of Sociology and History. Her diploma thesis, entitled The Shady Side of Science: Eugenics in Slovenian Past and Human Genetics of Contemporary and Future Generations, was awarded the Faculty Prešeren

Award. She continued her postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. In 2014 she obtained the title Doctor of Philosophy in History on the topic Public and Private Aspects of Genealogical Strategies of Slovenian Men and Women in the First Yugoslavia. From 1 October 2009 to 31 March 2013 she was employed at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana as an early-stage researcher for the basic research project Legal and Political History of Women. She is currently working on the basic research project Women and World War I, the basic research project Women and Borders, and under the Slovenian History programme. In 2014 she was elected assistant for General History of the 19th Century. She has been a member of the History of Race and Eugenics working group at Oxford Brookes University since December 2010. She has participated in several foreign and local conferences, symposiums and workshops. She is the author of several scientific articles and co-author of the exhibition 1914 - Position of Women on the Eve of the War. She has been the editor-in-chief of the Spol.si portal since 2014. Her research interests revolve around the history of women, the history of the body, the history of science, demographic history, the social history of medicine and bioethics. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Mitja FERENC, PhD, Associate Professor

He graduated in 1985 from the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In the same year he became employed at the Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for the Protection of Natural and Cultural Heritage, where he performed the tasks of adviser on the protection of historical heritage. He obtained his PhD in 1999 on the topic German Language Island in the Kočevje Region after the departure of the Gottscheers / 1942–1956. He has been employed at the Faculty of Arts since 2001, where he lectures on the history of Southeast Europe in the 20th century at the Department of History. In 2001 he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana and in 2007 he was appointed associate professor. He has published and lectured at home and abroad (Austria, Germany, USA, Canada, Croatia, Serbia, Argentina and Italy). On his own or as co-author he has published 22 monographs

and some 160 dissertations and articles, mostly on cultural heritage, partisan healthcare, Gottscheers, the German minority in Slovenia and concealed mass graves. He was the head of a group of experts for preparing a nomination to include the Franja Partisan Hospital on the Unesco World Heritage List. He has been a member or associate of the Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia ever since its establishment in 1990. From 2002 to 2009 he managed and carried out the project Recording Concealed Mass Graves in the Republic of Slovenia, and from 2006 to 2009 the probing or field research of concealed mass graves. He is the winner of the Stele Award for 1994 and an honorary member of the Gottscheer Heritage and Genealogy Association from the USA. From 2004 onwards he acted as the President of the Historical Association of Slovenia and from 2006 to 2008 as its Vice-President. Between 2009 and 2011 he was the head of the Department of History. For his important scientific achievements in modern Slovenian history he received the Zois Award in 2014. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Boris GOLEC, PhD, Associate Professor

After graduating in history at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana (1992), he received a scholarship from the Austrian government and took courses in Graz (1993–94); afterwards he was employed as an early-stage researcher at the Department of History of the Faculty of Education in Maribor (1994–99). At the parent department of the Faculty of Arts he obtained his master's degree (1997) and PhD (2000). He received the Golden Emblem of ZRC SAZU (2001) for his influential doctoral thesis. From the 2000/2001 academic year onwards he has been lecturing the subjects Archival Science 3 and 4 at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. Since 2001 he has been an associate of the Milko Kos Historical Institute at ZRC SAZU, since 2006 with the title Senior Scientific Associate. In 2001 he was appointed assistant professor of Slovenian history of the 16th–18th century and archival science. From 2006 he has been an assistant professor of auxiliary historical sciences and archival science; from 2006 onwards an assistant professor and from 2011 an associate professor of Slovenian and general history of early modern times.

He mostly researches the comparative history of town settlements and the social and cultural history of Slovenian territory between the 16th and 19th centuries. In recent years he has also been focusing on the biographies of famous Slovenes, especially Janez Vajkard Valvasor. He was the President of the Slovenian Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies from its establishment in 2007 to 2013, and has since been acting as its Vice-President. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Niko HUDELJA, MA, lecturer He graduated in 1972 at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana in German (A) and French (B) language and literature. From 1973 to 1980 he worked as a professor of French and German at the Ljubljana-Moste VI general secondary school, and from 1980 to 1983 taught German at IC OZN in Tacen. He has been employed as a professor of German language at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana since 1983. Until 1986 he taught German practical classes at the departments of ethnology, history and history of art, but since 1993 only at the Department of History. In 1997 he completed his master's study by defending his master's thesis Phraseology of the Technical Language of Historical Science. He is a member of various professional societies. Since 1984 he has been an active member of the Society for Foreign Languages and Literatures of Slovenia, with a head office at the Faculty of Arts, and from 1989 the editor-in-chief of the journal Vestnik. He published several technical articles in this journal, discussing the problems of teaching a foreign language as the language of the discipline. He organised national and Yugoslav German language competitions for secondary school students. In 2003 he received Veliko priznanje (Grand Certificate of Recognition) from the Faculty of Arts. He has also published several textbooks and a selection of archival material. He translates technical and scientific texts into German for the needs of the Department of History, historical institutes, museums and archives. From 2004 to 2006 he acted as deputy head of the Department of German, Dutch and Swedish. He retired in 2013. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Sašo JERŠE, PhD, Associate Professor

Sašo Jerše was an undergraduate student of history at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana between 1993 and 1998. After finishing his studies he became employed as an early-stage researcher at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts. In the 1998/1999 academic year he took courses in the history of early modern times at the Central European University in Budapest, where he obtained his master's degree with the thesis Political Thought Regarding Holy Roman Empire in the Late 16th Century. He completed his doctoral study in 2005 at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana with the dissertation Relationships between Holy Roman Empire and the Lands of Inner Austria from 1564 to 1590. After 2004 he was a scientific associate of the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts; from 2006 he was an assistant professor and from 2015 an associate professor of Slovenian and general history of early modern times. He is a member of Slovenska matica and the Vienna Institute for the Study of Early Modern Times. He received scholarships from various domestic and foreign foundations, including Sklad Dr. Franca Munde, Lucas Knaffel'sche Privatstiftung, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Austrian Agency for International Mobility and Cooperation in Education, Science and Research (OeAD). His research focuses mostly on the political history of the lands of Inner Austria in the 16th and 17th centuries, the history of the Empire in early modern times and the history of political thought in early modern times. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Jernej KOSI, PhD, Teaching Assistant

He graduated in 2006 in history and cultural sociology at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. From 2006 to 2011 he was employed at the Department of History as an early-stage researcher. He was again employed as a researcher at the Department at the end of 2013, after working in the non-governmental sector for a few years. He successfully finished his doctoral study in November 2012 with the dissertation Emergence of the Slovenian National Movement and Its Development until mid-19th Century. Since February 2014 he has been an assistant for contemporary Slovenian and general history. His research and study endeavours mostly focus on Central European and particularly Slovenian history of the long 19th century. He is the author of a book (How the Slovenian Nation was

Created, 2013), and has so far published a few scientific and technical articles. He is the co-author of two exhibitions and has lectured at home and abroad. He conducted research and took courses in Zagreb and Graz, and as an OeAD scholarship holder in Vienna. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Ana Marija LAMUT, MA

After finishing the Secondary School of Natural Sciences in Ljubljana (Bežigrad General Secondary School), she completed a joint honours pedagogical university study programme at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana: Greek language and literature and art history, thus obtaining the professional title "Professor of Greek and Art History". In 2004 she attended two one-month courses of Modern Greek as a holder of a Greek Government scholarship for summer courses of Modern Greek and Civilization at the University of Athens and at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. In the same year she became employed at the Slavic Library, where she passed the professional examination in library science. In 2006 she was employed at the Jože Plečnik General Secondary School in Ljubljana as an art history trainee. From 2007 to 2009 she was employed at the National and University Library in Ljubljana, where she obtained a licence for creating bibliographic records for monographs in the COBISS.SI system in June 2008. From 2009 to 2011 she was employed at the Special Library for Oncology at the Institute of Oncology. In 2011 she became employed at the library of the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In 2013 she obtained a master's degree in Greek literature under mentor Prof Marko Marinčič, PhD, with a thesis entitled Descriptions of Works of Art in Hellenistic Poetry. She is also a founding member of Društvo slovensko-grškega prijateljstva (Society of Slovenian and Greek Friendship). In 2014 she became a secretary-general of the Historical Association of Slovenia. Since 2015 she has been the leader of the Working Group for Education under the Central Humanities Library of the Faculty of Arts.

Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Walter LUKAN, PhD, Full Professor

After graduating from the University College of Teacher Education in Klagenfurt in 1965/66, he began teaching at

bilingual elementary schools in Carinthia (Edling, Latschach). From 1965 to 1970 he studied history and German language at the Faculty of the Humanities of the University of Vienna, where he obtained a PhD in 1984 with the dissertation Zur Biographie von Janez Evangelist Krek (1865–1917). From 1971 onwards he was employed at the Austrian Institute of East and Southeast European Studies, where he was a member of the institute's management board (1973–1996), managing the Library Department, documentation and several scientific projects, alongside parallel scientific and research work. From 1981 to 2006 he was the editor-in-chief of the internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary journal, published by the Institute, Österreichische Osthefte, and the editor, publisher and co-author of 11 thematic collections of scientific papers of said journal (Vuk Štefanović Karadžić; Franc Miklošič; Jernej Kopitar; Im Spannungsfeld von Nation und Staat; Aus polnisch-österreichischer Vergangenheit, Nationalitäten und Identitäten in Ostmitteleuropa; Kroatien; Makedonien; Ukraine; Albanien; Serbien und Montenegro). From 1991 to 2000 he was an external university professor of contemporary history at the Institute of East and Southeast European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Vienna. In the 1995/96 and 1998/99 academic years he lectured as a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, Department of History, and in the 1997/98 academic year also at the history department of the Faculty of Education of the University of Maribor. After the nostrification of his Vienna doctorate, he was appointed assistant professor of Slovenian history of the 19th century at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana in 1997. He was a full professor at this Faculty (Department of History) from 2000 onwards, lecturing on General History of the 19th Century and History of Southeast Europe of the 19th Century. In 2002 he was appointed associate professor of contemporary Slovenian history and contemporary history of Southeast Europe, and eventually in 2008 full professor of contemporary Slovenian and general history. He researches Slovenian and South Slavic history of the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular the work of Janez Evangelist Krek and Jernej Kopitar, Slovenian-Austrian political connections, political Catholicism, national stereotypes, issues from World War I and the history of

postcards. He is or was a member of scientific panels at domestic and foreign scientific institutions (Milko Kos Historical Institute at ZRC SAZU, Slovenian Scientific Institutes in Vienna and Klagenfurt) and of editorial boards of periodicals (European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies/Paris, Časopis za zgodovino in narodopisje/Maribor). He is also a member of a bilateral Austrian-Slovenian expert group of historians for discussing the history of the 20th century. He retired in 2014. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Janez MAROLT, PhD, Associate Professor

He obtained his master's degree in ecclesiastical history in 1971. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana in history and comparative literature in 1977. He obtained his PhD in 1990 at the same faculty with the thesis History of Our Region from 235 to 284 as Seen by Scriptores historiae avgustae. He passed the library science examination in 1980. From 1988 to 1992 he was a secretary-general of the Historical Association of Slovenia. He was a member of the management board of the Prešeren Fund for two mandates from 1992 to 1996 and from 1996 to 2000. From 1987 onwards he was employed at the Faculty of Arts (previously Faculty of Education) of the University of Maribor, where he lectured on ancient history and the history of early civilisations as an associate professor. He lectured on medical Latin terminology at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana from the 1989/90 academic year onwards. From 1988 to 2011 he lectured the subject Ancient East at the Department of History and the Department of Archaeology of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. He retired in 2012. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Peter MIKŠA, PhD, Teaching Assistant

In 2007 he graduated in history from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. In the following year he enrolled in the master's study of history at the same institution and in 2010 transferred directly to a doctoral study. During that time (in 2009) he became employed as a researcher at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts, where he is

working on several projects as a researcher. His studies and research focus on contemporary history, primarily the history of sports. He is researching the history of Slovenian mountain climbing and alpinism and is also actively engaged in genealogy and family and social history. He obtained his PhD in 2013. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Dušan MLACOVIĆ, PhD, Assistant Professor

He studied history and philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, graduating in 1992. From 1994 to 1997 and from 1997 to 1999 he was employed at the Department of History as an early-stage researcher. He obtained his PhD in 2006 with the dissertation Nobility of the Island of Rab in Late Middle Ages. From 2001 to 2003 he was employed at the Municipality of Rogaška Slatina as head of the Department of Economy; from 2003 to 2005 he was a project manager at the Scientific Research Centre Bistra Ptuj. He once again became employed at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana in 2008; he lectures on mediaeval history of SE Europe. He studies the mediaeval history of the Adriatic region and the issues of the interaction between urban material cultural heritage and development. From 1993 to 1994 he managed the project of conserving the documents of notaries from the Island of Rab, Nicolaus of Bologna (1369–1371) and Nicolaus of Curtarolo (1372–1396), in cooperation with Croatian State Archives and the Town of Rab; from 1993 to 2000 he managed the organising of the archives of the Rogaška Medical Centre (1803–2003), in cooperation with Zgodovinski arhiv Celje (Celje Historical Archives). Since 2006 he has been collaborating with the Municipality of Ptuj in revitalising the Ptuj town centre; between 2007 and 2009 he collaborated with the Department of the History of Older Periods and the Near East of the Ca'Foscari University of Venice on the archaeological project "Stari Bar“. He was a visiting lecturer at the universities in Ciudad Real (Spain), Zadar (Croatia) and Padua (Italy). Since 2008 he has been an assistant editor of the journal Zgodovinski časopis (a newsletter of the Historical Association of Slovenia) and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Povijesni prilozi – Historical Contributions (Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia) and a member of the extended editorial board of the online

journal Studies of the Ottoman Domain for the field of history (http://www.thestudiesofottomandomain.com, Department of History of the University of Samsun, Turkey). His book The Nobility and the Island. The Fall and Rise of the Rab Nobility (2008), was, in addition to a Slovenian and Croatian version, also published in English and Italian in 2012 and in a second, supplemented and revised Croatian edition. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Janez MLINAR, PhD, Assistant Professor

He graduated from the Department of History in 1996 and received the Prešeren Award for Students of the Faculty of Arts for his diploma thesis, entitled Carniola in the Liber certarum historiarum of Janez Vetrinjski. At first he was employed in the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia and then from 1997 to 2001 at the Faculty of Arts as an assistant trainee. In the 1999/2000 academic year he attended a course by Prof Johanek, PhD, at Westfälische Wilhelms University of Münster on mediaeval historiography. He obtained his PhD in 2001 with the dissertation The Image of the Counts of Celje in Narrative Sources. After receiving his PhD he was employed at various institutions, among others in the Gornjesavski muzej Jesenice museum as a curator of the mountain-climbing collection. He again became employed at the Faculty of Arts in 2004; he has been an assistant professor there since 2011. He is primarily interested in mediaeval and modern historiography and in nobility in Slovenia. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Dušan NEĆAK, PhD, Full Professor

He graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana in 1971 in history – art history and in 1978 attained the title Doctor of Historical Sciences with the doctoral dissertation Elections in Carinthia after World War II. He received his first post in the foreign affairs editorial office of the newspaper Delo as a journalist in charge of following the issues of Slovenes living in the neighbouring countries. From 1972 to 1980 he was a researcher at the Institute for Ethnic Studies in Ljubljana, where he was mostly engaged in the issues of Carinthian Slovenes and broader ethnic and minority problems. He

came to the Faculty of Arts in 1980 as an assistant professor of contemporary history; in 1985 he became an associate professor and in 1989 a full professor of contemporary history. He was the head of the Department of History twice, in 1984–1985 and 1992–1994; from 1985 to 1987 he was the deputy dean and from 1987 to 1989 the dean of the Faculty of Arts. He was the head of the Scientific Research Institute of the Faculty of Arts for six years (1996–2002). He is scientifically interested mostly in contemporary general, Yugoslav and Slovenian history and in ethnic issues. In that regard he is above all a specialist in post-war history. He also conducted in-depth research of methodological and historiographical issues of the research into contemporary history and researched the issues of general history, and the issues of local history connected with it (diplomatic history). In the 1986/87 and 1997/98 academic years he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Vienna, and in the 1993/1994 and 2005/2006 academic years at the University of Klagenfurt; in 1995 he was a guest of the University of Cologne, and in 2000, 2003 and 2006 a guest at Freie Universität Berlin. He was a five-time holder of a DAAD scholarship for professors and holder of scholarships of other local and foreign institutions, among others a two-time holder of a scholarship of the Vienna Konstantin Jireček Foundation. He has publicly presented his work at numerous scientific gatherings virtually across all of Europe, USA and Asia. His COBISS bibliography contains over 1000 units. He is the holder of several awards for scientific work, among others the Kajuh Award, Nagrada vstaje slovenskega naroda (Award of the Revolt of the Slovenian Nation) and Državna nagrada za vrhunske rezultate v zgodovinopisju (National Award for Special Achievement in Historiography) for 1996. In 1994 he received Veliko priznanje (Grand Certificate of Recognition) of the Faculty of Arts. He retired in 2014. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Marija Mojca PETERNEL, PhD, Lecturer, Assistant Professor

She is employed at the Department of German, Dutch and Swedish of the Faculty of Arts. After finishing the study of German and history and completing her master's study, she defended her doctoral dissertation in 2005, entitled German Newspapers in the Revolutionary Year of 1848/1849. After 2004 she was an assistant for the didactics of German, and

from 2012 onwards an assistant professor of Slovenian and general history of the 19th century. The core of her scientific research work consists mostly of 19th century newspapers. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Božo REPE, PhD, Full Professor

Božo Repe obtained his PhD in 1992 at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana and afterwards lectured in contemporary history at the Faculty of Education in Maribor. Since October 1996 he has been a professor of contemporary history at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. From 1999 to 2001 he was the head of the department. His research area is contemporary Slovenian, Southern Slavic and Central European history; he places great emphasis on comparativity. He is also interested in the issues of contemporary historiography and the influence of historical consciousness on Slovenian society, and in issues of history lessons in Slovenia and Southeast Europe. He is the author of several secondary school textbooks and co-author of a university textbook. His international renown is demonstrated by a number of articles published in Austria, France, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Canada, Hungary, Macedonia, Germany, Pakistan, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland and the USA; by his constant attendance at international conferences; by his participation in international projects and his lectures at foreign universities and institutions (University of Vienna and Institute of East and Southeast European Studies in Vienna, University of Kaunas in Lithuania, University of Bratislava in Slovakia, University of Skopje in Macedonia, University of Trondheim in Norway, and University of Graz). He is a member of the Bureau of the International Committee for the History of the Second World War. He is in charge of the History of Slovenes research programme at the Department of History. He has so far mentored over 300 graduates, 22 master's students and 8 PhD students. He is the author or co-author of 12 scientific and 11 technical monographs, 34 scientific and 16 review scientific articles and 30 independent scientific papers or chapters in a monograph. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Irena SELIŠNIK, PhD, Assistant Professor

In 2001 she graduated in history and cultural sociology from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. In 2004 she became employed at the Department of Sociology as an early-stage researcher and in 2007 obtained her PhD on the topic Women's Right to Vote as a Democratic Novelty: Factors Influencing Its Assertion in Slovenia. From 2007 onwards she was employed at the Faculty of Arts as a researcher and participated in several scientific research projects. In 2011 she was appointed assistant for contemporary Slovenian and general history by the Senate of the Faculty of Arts, and later on assistant professor of contemporary Slovenian and general history. Since 2015 she has been employed at the Department of History as a lecturer, lecturing on Slovenian History of the 19th Century and History of Women. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Vasko SIMONITI, PhD, Full Professor

In 1977 he graduated in history and in 1989 obtained his PhD at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana with the thesis Organisation of Defence against Turkish Raids on Slovenian Lands in the 16th Century. In 2000 he was elected full professor of the history of modern times at the same university. From 1990 to 1991 and from 2001 to 2003 he was the head of the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. He was granted several scholarships for working abroad and visited Vienna, Leipzig, London, Regensburg and Taipei for study and research. He is a member of the Vienna Institute for the Study of Early Modern Times. He was a member of the presidency and is a member of the management board of Slovenska matica and the head of its history department. From 2004 to 2008 he was the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and in the first half of 2008 the President of the Council of Ministers of Culture of the European Union. He is the author of several scientific and technical works (monographs and papers) on early modern history: he was especially interested in military history, Turkish raids and the myths connected with them, pillaging, migrations and mass deaths, in the attitude of authorities towards subjects and their status, in the formation of the early modern state, cultural history and the political history of Southeast Europe. He was also engaged in the issues of the attitudes

of historians towards history and the issues of historiography; in his last period he also devoted his attention to Slovenian history of the 20th century. He also writes essays and political articles on current events. He retired in 2015. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Rok STERGAR, PhD, Associate Professor

He finished elementary and secondary school in Ljubljana. He enrolled in the study of history at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, from which he graduated in 1998. After graduation he became an assistant at the Department of History. With the topic Slovenes and Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces (1868–1914) he obtained his PhD in 2003; he was appointed assistant professor in 2007 and associate professor in 2013. He is researching the history of the 19th century. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Barbara ŠATEJ, MA She studied history and library science at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana; she graduated in 1996 and became employed as a librarian in the library of the Department of History, which she has been managing since 2005. From 1996to 2002 and from 2004 to 2006 she was the secretary-general of the Historical Association of Slovenia. She obtained her master's degree in 2012. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Peter ŠTIH, PhD, Full Professor

In 1983 he graduated in history from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. Between 1989 and 1992 he specialised in the basic historical sciences at Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung at the University of Vienna. In 1993 he obtained a PhD at the University of Ljubljana and became an assistant professor in 1994; since 2004 he has been a full university professor of mediaeval history and auxiliary historical sciences. Between 1995 and 1997 he was the head of the department. In scientific and technical press he has so far published over 500 titles, of which (as co-author) 19 scientific monographs (which were published in English, German, Italian and

Croatian) and some 150 scientific papers. The core of Štih's work is research into mediaeval history between the Northern Adriatic, Eastern Alps and Western Pannonia from the end of Antiquity to the 15th century, inclusive, with the following contents highlighted: 1) Slavic ethnogeneses and state formations of early Middle Ages in Eastern Alps; 2) history of mediaeval nobility; 3) formation of lands in Slovenian territory and constitutional and administrative history; 4) diplomatics and source criticism; 5) stereotypes and myths in Slovenian history and historiography. His papers were included in over sixty symposiums at home, in Central Europe and the USA. The international renown of his work is demonstrated by numerous publications abroad (Italy, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Croatia and Brazil) and countless quotes in foreign works. As a whole, his research has quite substantially changed the established view on Slovenian Middle Ages. His organisational and journalistic work in the science of history is likewise comprehensive; it should be pointed out that he has been the editor-in-chief of Zgodovinski časopis (Historical Newspaper) and the monograph series Zbirka Zgodovinskega časopisa (Collection of the Historical Newspaper) since 2000. In addition he was the (co-)editor of nineteen publications. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several periodicals at home and abroad. Between 2010 and 2014 he was a member of the Committee of the Republic of Slovenia for the Zois Award, the Zois Certificate of Recognition, the Ambassador of Science Certificate of Recognition and the Puh Certificate of Recognition; as a member of several scientific councils he is also collaborating with the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a member of several professional associations and institutions; for instance, he is a member of the Austrian Institute of Historical Research (Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung) in Vienna, where he has also been a member of its scientific panel since 2010; a member of the Commission for the History and Culture of Germans in Southeast Europe (Komission für Geschichte und Kultur der Deutschen in Südosteuropa; the former Südostdeutsche Historische Komission) in Tübingen, and a member of the scientific council Fonti per la Storia della Chiesa in Friuli – Serie Medievale (Udine). In 2007 he was elected associate member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and in 2015 its full member of Section I - Historical and Social

Sciences; between 2008 and 2014 he was the head of the department of historical sciences and has been the secretary-general of the section since 2011. In 2008 he was elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and in 2010 a member of Istituto per gli Incontri Culturali Mitteleuropei, based in Gorizia, Italy. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Marko ŠTUHEC, PhD, Assistant Professor

He graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana (1984). After graduating, he became employed as a researcher trainee at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In the autumn of 1985 he became an assistant at that department. In the 1989/90 academic year he was a holder of a French government scholarship and took courses in Paris. In 1993 he obtained his master's degree at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana and in 2000 a PhD at the same. He has been an assistant professor of the history of early modern times since 2001. Between 2003 and 2005 he was the head of the department. His research covers the social and cultural history of Slovenian territory in the 17th and 18th centuries, in particular the history of the nobility in Carniola. His papers were included in several scientific gatherings in Slovenia, Hungary, the USA, Great Britain and Austria. He teaches the following subjects at the Department of History: General History of Early Modern Times, Social History, and Structure and Development of Historical Science. He is the departmental coordinator of the international study programme History of South-East Europe/joint degree, which the Department of History is implementing together with appropriate departments and institutes of the universities of Graz and Cluj, and is the head of the Tempus programme Example of Excellence for Joint Degree Programmes Development in South-East Europe. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Danijela TRŠKAN, PhD, Associate Professor

After finishing the Vida Janežič Secondary School of Social Sciences, she enrolled in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, from which she graduated in 1991 in A-French

language and A-history. In 1996 she completed her master's study in the didactics of history and in 2002 her doctoral study at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana (mentor Štefan Trojar, PhD). She is a Doctor of Philosophy in History. From 1992 to 2002 she was employed at the Bežigrad General Secondary School in Ljubljana, where she taught history and French language in the general secondary school sections, and an individual project in the English language at the International School for Foreigners. From 1999 to 2002 she was an assistant, from 2002 to 2007 an assistant professor, and from August 2007 onwards an associate professor of the Didactics of History at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. In 2010 the Student Council of the Faculty of Arts awarded her a certificate of recognition for outstanding pedagogical work. Her scientific and expert work covers history lessons at the elementary school and secondary school level in Slovenia; she studies the testing and grading methods, curriculum designs, textbooks and manuals for history, museum work and learning through discovering local history. At the higher education level she researches alternative grading, pedagogical practice, teamwork and the personal files of students. In the 2006-2008 period she was the manager and implementor of the project The Role of Local History in Elementary and Secondary School under the Target Research Programme Slovenian Competitiveness. Under the research programme Slovenian History she is researching history lessons and the educational system after 1945 in Slovenia. She has been a member of the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO since 2010. In the 2010–2014 period she managed and implemented the project Euro-Arab Dialogue: Textbook Analysis; in the 2015–2018 she is managing and implementing the project Role of Oral Sources as Part of Cultural Heritage in History Lessons. Since 2011 she has been a member of the International Society of History Didactics, and has been in the HEIRNET organising committee since 2014. In the 2013/2014 academic year she received a three-month scholarship from the Republic of Croatia as a visiting lecturer and researcher at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Zagreb. At the Department of History she has been functioning as the coordinator of international collaboration or the Erasmus exchange programme for students and professors since 2004. From 2006 to 2009 and from 2012 to 2015 she

has been in charge of presentational collections of scientific papers, accreditation and re-accreditation of Bologna study programmes. She is the administrator of two pedagogical study programmes at the 2nd Bologna cycle. From 2011 to 2013 she was the deputy dean of the Faculty of Arts for undergraduate study (1st and 2nd cycle) and international collaboration. Between 2013 and 2015 she was the head of the department. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Jasna VANČEK

She graduated from the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana in 2005. Since September 2007 she has been employed as a professional secretary of the Department of History.

Marta VERGINELLA, PhD, Full Professor

In June 1984 she graduated in history from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Trieste. She graduated in 1995 from the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. After teaching at Slovenian secondary schools in Trieste and Gorizia, she became employed as an assistant trainee for Cultural Sociology at the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Arts in 1992/93; in 1995/96 she lectured on General History of the 19th Century at the Department of History and Historical Anthropology at the Department of Sociology. From 1997 onwards she lectured on General History of the 19th Century and Theory of History at the Department of History as a lecturer; on 6 June 2001 she was elected associate professor, and in 2006 full professor of General History of the 19th Century and Theory of History. She is currently lecturing on Theory of History, Epistemology of History, General History of the 19th Century and Selected Chapters from General History of the 19th Century. She is interested in the following themes: social history, memory studies, border studies, national studies, history of women and gender, and oral history. Between 1999 and 2001 she was the deputy head of the Department of History. In the 2004/2005 academic year she was the head of the Department of History. From 2006 to 2010 she was the national coordinator for Historiography at ARRS (Slovenian Research Agency). As a visiting lecturer she lectured at and collaborated with ISH-Faculty of Postgraduate Studies in Ljubljana, University

of Naples Federico II, University of Sassari, University of Trieste, University of Vienna, University of Zagreb, University of Alessandria, University of Hamburg and University of Padua. In 2005 she lectured a subject at the Mediterranean Chair, founded by Unesco at the University of Valencia. She is a regular participant in international symposiums at home and abroad. She is the author of 13 monographs, 50 monograph papers, 34 scientific articles and many other technical texts. She has written 11 accompanying studies and 86 reviews. She is a member of various research institutions (Slovenska matica in Ljubljana, Slovenian Research Institute in Trieste, Slovenian National Library of Studies in Trieste), associations (Društvo slovenskih zgodovinarjev (Society of Slovenian Historians); SISSCO) and editorial boards (Studia humanitatis publishing house, Zgodovinski časopis, Acta historiae, Rivista DEP and Qualestoria). Since September 2015 she has been a member of the scientific council of the national institute INSMLI in Milano. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html

Žiga ZWITTER, PhD, Teaching Assistant

He took up a joint honours study of history and geography at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana in the 2005/2006 academic year as a golden general secondary school graduate and completed it in June 2010. In 2008 he received a certificate of recognition for special achievement in the study of geography for his seminar paper. For his diploma thesis, entitled Impact of the "Little Ice Age" on Agrarian Settlement in the Territory of Present-Day Slovenia: Example of Selected Areas in Zgornja Savinjska dolina, he received the Faculty Prešeren Award. In October 2010 he enrolled in the doctoral study and became employed at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana as an early-stage researcher. Mentored by Prof Peter Štih, PhD, and Assoc Prof Boris Golec, PhD, his doctoral dissertation discussed the environmental history of Slovenian territory in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times (the history of climate, of forests, waters, natural disasters, the environmental aspects of agrarian history, and the environment in the topography of the Glory of the Duchy of Carniola). From 2013 to 2015 he attended study courses at three DIANET interdisciplinary schools. He obtained his PhD in 2015. He publishes his findings in local and foreign

scientific journals and collections of scientific papers. He is continuing his environmental and historical research with an emphasis on early modern times. He is a member of the European Society for Environmental History. Bibliography: http://home.izum.si/COBISS/bib/Home_SI_en.html