Research Associate, Assistant Professor
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In 1999 she graduated from the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and the Department of Art History at Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts and in 2012 she graduated from the same university with a doctorate in ethnology. In 2000 she started working as a research assistant at the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, where she studies heritage, architecture, dwelling culture, domestic lifestyle, mountain pasture and livestock grazing and trade between countryside and towns. Since 2004 she has been working at the Research Station Nova Gorica. During the 2001-2003 she was on editorial board of the Monitor ISH, since 2004 of the Izvestje Raziskovalne postaje ZRC SAZU v Novi Gorici and since 2008 of the Goriški letnik. She presents her expert and research work at periodical lectures and seminars at the University of Ljubljana, Primorska, Nova Gorica, Krakow, Lima and Udine; since 2019 she is an assistant professor at the Postgraduate school ZRC SAZU. During the years 2012-2016 she was a vice-president of the Expert Council of the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Scientific Council of the National and Study Library in Trieste, and since 2017 of the Action Group 6 of the European Union Strategy for the Alpine region. Between 2016-2017 she was a research fellow at the University of Udine. Since 2019 she leads multidisciplinary research programme Heritage on the Margins.
Isolation and connectedness in the Bohinj Alps : experiences of a majerca. Traditiones : zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje . [Tiskana izd.]. 2024, letn. 53, št. 2, str. 19-36, fotogr. ISSN 0352-0447. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/article/view/13752, DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2024530202. Špela Ledinek Lozej (avtorica, fotografinja)
Hodim, pišem, raziskujem : refleksija hoje in pisanja v etnološkem in antropološkem raziskovanju. Etnolog : glasnik Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja. [Nova vrsta]. [Tiskana izd.]. 2021, letn. 31 = 82, str. 67-86, ilustr. ISSN 0354-0316. https://www.etno-muzej.si/files/etnolog/pdf/0354-0316_31_Rogelja_Ledinek_Hodim.pdf. Špela Ledinek Lozej (soavtorica)
Collections, walks, and cultural landscapes : Slovenian-Italian cross-border heritage initiatives. Traditiones : zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje. [Tiskana izd.]. 2021, letn. 50, št. 1, str. 79-105, ilustr. ISSN 0352-0447. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/article/view/10519/9681, DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2021500106. Špela Ledinek Lozej (soavtorica)
Heritage on the margins? : Central and Eastern European perspectives. Traditiones : zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje. [Tiskana izd.]. 2025, letn. 54, št. 1, str. 7-16. ISSN 0352-0447. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/article/view/14342/12449, DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2025540101. Špela Ledinek Lozej (soavtorica)
Branding, labelling and certification : geographical and anthropological insights. Acta geographica Slovenica. [Tiskana izd.]. 2022, 62, št. 2, str. 51-61. ISSN 1581-6613. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/ags/article/view/11265/10636 , DOI: 10.3986/AGS.11265. Špela Ledinek Lozej (soavtorica)
The walk of peace : heritage-border complex between Slovenia and Italy. V: MOZAFFARI, Ali (ur.), HARVEY, David Charles (ur.). Border-straddling heritages : containment, contestation and appreciation of shared pasts. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, cop. 2025. Str. 175-198, ilustr. Explorations in Heritage Studies, vol. 1 0. ISBN 978-1-83695-234-3. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781836952350/html#overview. Špela Ledinek Lozej (soavtorica)
Alpine pasture in the Julian Alps (Slovenia) : the Krstenica Alp revisited. V: SCHNEIDER, Almut (ur.), TAUBER, Elisabeth (ur.). New horizons for the Alps : ethnographies, reshaping challenges, and emerging more-than-Alpine relations. Bozen; = Bolzano: Bu,press, 2024. Str. 103-128, ilustr. ISBN 978-88-6046-198-8. DOI: 10.13124/9788860461988.
Cross-border landscape as heritage? : insights from Slovenian borderlands. V: PETTENATI, Giacomo (ur.). Landscape as heritage : international critical perspectives. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. Str. 136-147, ilustr. ISBN 978-1-032-04934-2, ISBN 978-1-032-04623-5. DOI: 10.4324/9781003195238-12. Špela Ledinek Lozej (soavtorica)
Mountain pasture in Friuli (Italy) : past and present. V: BINDI, Letizia (ur.). Grazing communities : pastoralism on the move and biocultural heritage frictions. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, 2022. Str. 222-240, ilustr. Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology, vol. 29. ISBN 978-1-80073-475-3. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/OpenAccess/BindiGrazing/9781800736672_OA.pdf , DOI: 10.3167/9781800734753. Špela Ledinek Lozej (avtorica, fotografinja)
Hodopisi : zbirka etnografskih esejev z metodološkimi premisleki o hoji in pisanju. 1. e-izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2023. 1 spletni vir (1 datoteka PDF (217 str.)), ilustr., zvd. Prostor, kraj, čas, 21. ISBN 978-961-05-0708-6. ISSN 2712-2840. https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610507086, DOI: 10.3986/9789610507086. Špela Ledinek Lozej (soavtorica, fotografinja)
Labelling, certification and branding of cheeses in the southeastern Alps (Italy, Slovenia): Montasio, Bovec, Tolminc and Mohant cheese. Acta geographica Slovenica. Special issue: Gastronomy, territory and tourism 2021, vol. 61, issue 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.8746
Walks through the multi-layered landscape of Šavrinkas' Istria : eggs, books, backpacks and stony paths. Landscape research. 2018, vol. 43, issue 5, str. 600-612, ilustr. ISSN 0142-6397. DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2017.1336207. [COBISS.SI-ID 41852717]
Frankfurtska ali švedska kuhinja? : prispevek k zgodovini migracij in prilaščanj oblik(ovanja). Etnolog : glasnik Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja. [Nova vrsta]. [Tiskana izd.]. 2016, letn. 26 = 77, str. 127-146.
Od hiše do niše : razvoj kuhinje v Vipavski dolini. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2015. 184 str., ilustr. Ethnologica - Dissertationes, 5. Špela Ledinek Lozej (sourednica, članica uredniškega odbora).
Paša in predelava mleka v planinah Triglavskega narodnega parka : kulturna dediščina in aktualna vprašanja. Traditiones : zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje. [Tiskana izd.]. 2013, letn. 42, št. 2, str. 49-68, ilustr.
Dairying in the mountain pastures in the Julian Alps : heritages, utopias and realities. Studia ethnologica Croatica. 2016, vol. 28, str. 91-111, ilustr. ISSN 1330-3627. http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=253579 , DOI: 10.17234/SEC.27.1. [COBISS.SI-ID 40804141]
Večstopenjska planinska paša. 2010.
Večstopenjska planinska paša v Bohinju, Živa kulturna dediščina se predstavi. Slovensko etnološko društvo, 2010, str. 80-84.
Pregled poglavitne, predvsem etnološke strokovne literature druge polovice 20. stoletja o stanovanjski kulturi Vipavske doline. Izvestje Raziskovalne postaje ZRC SAZU v Novi Gorici. ISSN 2630-4287. - Št. 5 (2008), str. 30-40.
Ob petdesetletnici Orlove terenske ekipe Etnografskega muzeja na Vipavskem : pregled gradiva o stavbarstvu in bivalni kulturi. Izvestje Raziskovalne postaje ZRC SAZU v Novi Gorici. ISSN 2630-4287. - Št. 4 (dec. 2007), str. 31-35.
Mediterranean dwelling culture in The Vipava Valley (Slovenia) : development of the kitchen throughout the 20th century, Meditriology 2 : coastal settlements, culture, conservation : [proceedings]. Eastern Mediterranean University Press, 2007.
Stavbarstvo na Vipavskem v Valvasorjevem slikovnam gradivu. Izvestje Raziskovalne postaje ZRC SAZU v Novi Gorici. ISSN 2630-4287. - Št. 2 (dec. 2005), str. 6-10.
Aktualnost Alamuta ali zgodba za vse čase. Besede terorja : medijska podoba terorja in nasilja. Filozofska fakulteta, 2002, str. 23-33.
DRIM (Danube Region Information Platform for Economic Integration of Migrants) (international project • January 1, 2017 - June 30, 2019)
ZBORZBIRK Cultural heritage in collections between the Alps and Karst (international project • October 1, 2012 - March 31, 2015)
Alpfoodway: a cross-disciplinary, transnational and participative approach to Alpine food cultural heritage (INTERREG • November 1, 2016 - October 31, 2019)
Heritage on the margins: new perspectives on heritage and identity within and beyond national (research programme • January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2027)
100% Local (applied research project • August 1, 2019 - January 31, 2021)
EPISCOPE OF BORDERSCAPES: Projections of the Gorizia Region's pasts and futures as part of European Capital of Culture, Nova Gorica 2025 (applied research project • January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025)
Migrants'emplacement at the micro-level: Restaurants as the contact zones (January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2027)
Route biographies: walking and writing as methods for researching border regions (fundamental research project • October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)