Saša Babič is a folklorist, researching short folklore forms, ie. greetings, swearing, proverbs, riddles, incantations, praying etc., their text usage and cultural meanings as well as their integration in folklore events and communication. She does archival research, in order to gain materials needed for diachronic comparisons, as well as fieldwork research, in order to collect materials and explore the integration of short folklore forms in society. Her special interest is given to contemporary usages, changes and adaptations of short folklore forms.
Between 2017 and 2019 she has researched the usage and dynamics of contemporary short folklore forms in language and culture as part of her postdoctoral project »Tradition and Innovation: Short forms of folklore and contemporary cultural dialogues« which was held in Estonian Literary Museum (Tartu, Estonia).
Saša Babič is the lecturer of a course "Short folklore forms in culture and society" for the doctoral students at Post gradual school ZRC SAZU (Ljubljana, Slovenia), and of a course “Introduction to mythology” for BA students on the Faculty of Arts on the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.
Saša Babič is chief co-editor at scientific journal Studiy Mythologica Slavica and a member of the Slovensko etnološko društvo [Slovenian ethnological society], The International Society For Folk Narrative Research, International Society for Ethnology and Folklore and the International Association of Paremiology (AIP-IAP).
2023 soavtorica z GAŠPERIČ, Primož: The semiotics of cartographic symbols on old maps. Acta geographica Slovenica, 63-2, 2023, 51–71. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.10930
2023 soavtorica z VOOLAID, Piret: A sociocultural view of Estonian and Slovenian proverbs on alcohol and drinking. Folklore. Sept. 2023, vol. 134, issue 3, str. 370-394, DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2023.2175972.
2022 Collecting Slovenian school lore via e-questionnaire : analysis of the collected material and revision of the questionnaire. Folklore vol. 86, str. 15-32, DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.babic.
2022 soavtorica z RADOMIROVIĆ MAČEK, Kristina: COVID-19 conspiracy theories in Slovenia. Studia mythologica Slavica. 25, str. 27-48, DOI: 10.3986/SMS20222502.
2021 Uganke na Slovenskem. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. https://omp.zrc-sazu.si/zalozba/catalog/view/1954/8075/1445-1.
2019 Barve v slovenskih sodobnih folklornih ugankah. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva 59/1, str. 71-79.
2018 Barve v slovenskih folklornih ugankah. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva 58/ 1/2, str. 43-51.
2018 soavtorica z VOOLAID, Piret. Swearing: dissolution into nothingness. Studia mythologica Slavica 21, str. 147-159.
2018 Stereotipi in predsodki o ženskah in moških v šaljivih vprašanjih. V: JAMBREŠIĆ KIRIN, Renata (ur.). Humor u svakodnevnoj komunikaciji. Zagreb: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku.
2016 GRANBOM-HERRANEN, Liisa, BABIČ, Saša, VOOLAID, Piret. Proverbial expressions in newspapers: a study in Estonia, Finland, and Slovenia. Traditiones: zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje 44/3, str. 5-32.
2016 soavtorica z PODJED, Dan (avtor, fotograf). Vozila in stereotipi: primerjava Ljubljane in Beograda. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva 56/ 1/2, str. 74-84.
2015 Beseda ni konj : estetska struktura slovenskih folklornih obrazcev (Ethnologica - Dissertationes, 6). Ljubljana, Založba ZRC. [COBISS.SI-ID 278195712]
2015 soavtorica z PODJED, Dan, Crossroads of anger: tensions and conflicts in traffic. Ethnologia Europaea : journal of european ethnology 45/2, str. 17-33
Traditional Paremiological Units in Dialogue with Contemporary Use (research project • September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023)
Slovenian and Estonian Contemporary School Lore (bilateral project • November 1, 2020 - October 31, 2022)
Create to Connect > Create to Impact (international project • September 1, 2018 - August 31, 2022)
SCHOLA: Mentoring for Educators to Evaluate Volunteering (international project • September 11, 2016 - August 31, 2018)
DriveGreen: Development of an Ecodriving Application for a Transition to a Low-carbon Society (interdisciplinary project • July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2017)
Heroes and Celebrities in Slovenia and Central Europe (fundamental research project • August 1, 2013 - July 31, 2016)
ZBORZBIRK Cultural heritage in collections between the Alps and Karst (international project • October 1, 2012 - March 31, 2015)
ETNOFOLK Ohranjanje in pospeševanje etnološke kulturne dediščine v Srednji Evropi (international project • May 1, 2011 - April 30, 2014)
Slovenski pregovori kot kulturna dediščina: klasifikacija in redakcija korpusa (applied project • May 1, 2010 - April 30, 2013)
Tradition and its re-producers (applied project • February 1, 2008 - January 31, 2011)