Luka Kropivnik holds a bachelor’s degree in Slovene and Russian studies from the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He continued his graduate studies at the Department of History and the Department of Slovene Studies at the same faculty, while also attending courses at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.

In 2022, he completed his master’s studies in Slovene studies and history with the thesis Ivan Hribar Between Politics and Literature (supervisors: Prof. Dr Urška Perenič and Prof. Dr Božo Repe; co-supervisor: Prof. Dr Milena Mileva Blažić). For this thesis, he received the Dean’s Award of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.

During his graduate studies, he participated in the Erasmus+ programme, spending the period from November 2020 to March 2021 at the Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Klagenfurt, and from June to September 2021 at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, where he contributed to the ERIM project under the supervision of Dr Marijana Hameršak.

As a recipient of an ASEF Fellowship, he conducted fieldwork between February and May 2023 at Deakin University in Melbourne for his master’s thesis The Slovenian Community in Australia at the Crossroads of Generations and in the Light of New Immigration (supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Dr Jaka Repič and Prof. Dr Tone Smolej).

Since October 2023, he has been employed as a young research fellow at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, ZRC SAZU, under the research mentorship of Assist. Prof. Dr Tatiana Bajuk Senčar. He is also enrolled in a doctoral programme at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, under the academic supervision of Assoc. Prof. Dr Jaka Repič.

In 2024 and 2025, he undertook research visits at the University of Melbourne (December 2024–February 2025), Deakin University (November–December 2024), and James Cook University in Brisbane (August–September 2025).