Dr. Tatiana Bajuk Senčar received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Rice University in Texas (1998). Her research interests are diverse and cover many fields. The first area covers transition and studies, where she has focused on the social role of economists in Slovenia's transition process, the development of socialist entrepreneurship, and the emergence of "celebrity" economists in the public sphere. She also participated comparative research that examined post-socialist developments, precarity, and gender in trade union movements in select new EU member states.

The second area is related to sustainable development and globalization - both in the Slovenian Alps, where she has carried out numerous ethnographic projects, and the border area between Slovenia and Hungary. In recent years, she has dealt with sustainable tourism, the management of natural and cultural heritage, as well as sustainable mobility and multi-locality in both rural and urban settings.

The third research area concerns the EU and European integration processes. Her research in this area includes an in-depth ethnographic study of the integration of the first generation of Slovenian Eurocrats and the formation of identity within the EU institutions as well as research on the Europeanization of border areas through EU projects.

She is a member of the editorial board of journal Traditiones and has been a guest editor in foreign scientific journals. She also collaborates with institutions and local organizations in communities in the form of applied projects. Her professional work also includes formal and informal consulting on local tourism policy (as well as round tables, working groups). She is a member of AAA (American Anthropological Association), EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists), SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore), and the European Network for Multi-locality Studies.