Research Associate, Associate Professor
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Miha Kozorog is Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Associate Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Ljubljana. He is a member of the board of the Slovenian Ethnological Society. He has written over 40 scientific articles and (co)authored three monographs. In 2012, his work received recognition of exceptional scientific achievement from the Slovenian Research Agency.
Research:
His research topics include: human-environment relations; space, place and landscape; borders; economy; agrarian worlds; tourism and festivals; popular music; ethnological and anthropological theories.
He has conducted fieldwork in Slovenia, Italy, Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia and Hungary.
Books (in Slovenian):
2023 (ur.) Mladi podjetniki: etnografije političnega, ekonomskega in moralnega subjekta. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC.
2022 (sourednik) Meje: antropološki uvidi. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC.
2013 Festivalski kraji: koncepti, politike in upanje na periferiji. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete.
2009 Antropologija turistične destinacije v nastajanju: prostor, festivali in lokalna identiteta na Tolminskem. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete.
Book chapters:
2025. Wildlife Fencing as Resistance from Below: A Case from the Slovenian Borderland. Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature. ur./eds. A. Pohl Harrisson, M. Eilenberg. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 97-128. https://www.hup.fi/reader/chapters/pdf/10.33134/HUP-30-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-30-4
2019. On the Border: Perspectives on Memory Landscapes between Slovenia and Italy. Rediscovering the Great War: Archaeology and Enduring Legacies on the Soča and Eastern Fronts, ur. U. Košir, M. Črešnar, D. Mlekuž. London, New York: Routledge, 63–76.
2017. Doubly Excluded, Doubly Included, ‘Something In-between’: A Bosnian Refugee Band and Alternative Youth Culture in Slovenia. Sounds of Attraction: Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav Popular Music, ur. M. Kozorog, R. Muršič. Ljubljana: Ljubljana University Press, 73–97.
2016. Triggering Movement in Places of Belonging: Jazz Festival Organizers as Locals-Cosmopolitans in a Small Slovenian Town. Moving Places: Relations, Return, and Belonging (EASA Series 29), ur. N. Gregorič Bon, J. Repič. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 105–125.
2016. Hallucinating the Slovenian Way: The Myth of Salamander Brandy, an Indigenous Slovenian Psychedelic Drug. Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage, ur. R. L. Brulotte, M. A. Di Giovine. London, New York: Routledge, 125–139.
Articles:
2019. “They Feed Here and Live There”: Borderwork with Wildlife in Slovenia’s North-East Corner. Traditiones 48 (1): 191–211.
2015. Kozorog, M. & Bartulović, A. The Sevdalinka in Exile, Revisited: Young Bosnian Refugeesʼ Music-making in Ljubljana in the 1990s (A Note on Applied Ethnomusicology). Narodna umjetnost 52 (1): 121–142.
2012. Dante Alighieri was Here: Place, Identities, Geographies and Histories in a Small Slovenian Town. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 21 (1): 3–21.
2011. Festival Tourism and Production of Locality in a Small Slovenian Town. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 9 (4): 298–319.
Young entrepreneurs in times of uncertainty and accelerated optimism: an ethnological study of entrepreneurship and ethics of young people in modern-day Slovenia (fundamental research project • July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2022)
Protected Areas along the Slovenian-Hungarian border (bilateral project • June 1, 2017 - December 31, 2020)
Education:
BAs: in Economics (1996); Sociology (2002); Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (2002).
PhD in Ethnology from the University of Ljubljana (2008).
Post-doctoral specialization at the University of Udine (2007).
Employment history:
Senior Research Associate at ZRC SAZU, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology (2015–) (50 %)
Assistant in ethnology at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (2014–) (50 %)
Research fellow at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (2010–2014)
Popular music expert at the Slovenian Music Information Centre - SIGIC (2007–2010)
Selected management experience:
Chief-editor of the scientific journal Traditiones (2023–)
President of the Slovenian Music Information Centre – SIMIC (2017–)
Chief-editor of ethnological book collection Cultural Heritage (2015–)
Member of the board of the Slovenian Ethnological Society (2015–)
Chief-editor of the scientific journal Bulletin of the Slovenian Ethnological Society (2015–2017)
Chief-editor of ethnological book collection Zupanic’s Collection (2006–2008)
Programme director of the Creative Camp Sajeta international festival (2002–2009)
PhD supervisor:
2014–2017 Dr Blaž Bajič
2019–2023 Dr Tina Ivnik
2021– Jaro Veselinovič
2021– Janko Rošker
2023– Jan Ovnik