Tatiana Bajuk Senčar is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, ZRC SAZU. She received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Rice University, in Houston, Texas (USA). Her main research interests, which she pursues in numerous national and international research projects (basic and applied), include the anthropology of policy, mobility and multi-locality, rural and urban sustainable development, and the anthropology of Europe. She holds the title of Assistant Professor from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University in Ljubljana and also teaches at the New University, Faculty of Slovenian and International Studies. She is also chief editor of the journal Traditiones.
Tatiana Bajuk Senčar has in recent years been studying EU and European integration at the level of everyday life as well as at the level of policy. She has examined EU integration processes as they manifest themselves through (cross) border development, mobility and multi-locality, and (transnational) professional identity formation – particularly among the first generation of Slovene EU officials in Brussels. She has also been researching the Europeanization of border regions and urban centers through EU policies, most recently in the context of climate change.
In addition, she has been exploring issues linked to sustainable development and broad-based processes of change. Her recent work focuses on sustainable mobility in both urban and rural areas, researching the role of tourism seasonality on the peripheralization of alpine areas as well as the development of multi-local livelihood strategies both in peripheral regions and urban centers.
She is active in numerous professional organizations in which she regularly presents her research, including SIEF, EASA, and the European Network for Multi-Locality Studies, whose yearly conference she organized in Ljubljana in 2025.
Bajuk Senčar, Tatiana. (2025) Imaginaries and Rhythms of Remoteness: The Case of Bohinj as a Tourist Destination. Svetovi 3(2), 105-128. DOI: 10.4312/svetovi.3.2.105-128.
Bajuk Senčar, Tatiana. (2023). Introduction: The (In)visibility of Multi-Locality in Theory and Practice. Traditiones52(3), 7-22. DOI: 10.3986/Traditio202352030
Kozorog, Miha, Tatiana Bajuk Senčar, Katalin Munda Hirnök, and Ingrid Slavec Gradišnik. (2022). Meje: antropološki uvidi. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. DOI: 10.3986/9789610505501.
Bajuk Senčar, Tatiana and Saša Poljak Istenič. (2022). "Ni čebel - ni prihodnosti": čebela kot simbol zelene Ljubljane. Traditiones 51(3), 45-74. DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2022510303.
Bajuk Senčar, Tatiana. (2021). Conceptualising Youth Entrepreneurship in EU Policy Discourse. Studia Ethnologica Croatica 33, 21-42. DOI: 10.17234/SEC.33.4.
Bajuk Senčar, Tatiana.(2020). Revisiting the Concept of Debordering: The Case of the Slovenian-Hungarian Border Region. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica: An International Journal of Ethnography 65(2), 399-414. DOI: 10.1556/022.2020.00017.
Bajuk Senčar, Tatiana. (2019). Cross-border Cooperation and the Europeanization of the Slovenian-Hungarian Border Region. Traditiones 48(1), 213–231. DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2019480109.
Bajuk Senčar, Tatiana and Jeffrey David Turk. (2018). Following European Stories: An Anthropological Study of European Integration / Suivre des histoires européennes: une étude anthropologique de l'intégration européenne. Revue des sciences sociales. 60, 128-133.
Bajuk Senčar, Tatiana. (2017). Researching the Culture of Comfort: the Use of Interviews in Ethnographic Studies of Mobility. In: Dan Podjed, Simona Bezjak, and Saša Babič, (eds.). Research on the Road: Methodology and Practice of Studying Traffic, Driving Habits, and Sustainable Mobility. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 43-61.
Bajuk Senčar, Tatiana. (2014). Bohinj and Constructions of Common Interest in Triglav National Park. Ethnologia Fennica: Finnish Studies in Ethnology 41, 6-22. https://journal.fi/ethnolfenn/article/view/65557
Bajuk Senčar, Tatiana. (2014). Eurocrats in Brussels. In: Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik and Jernej Mlekuž (eds.). Going Places: Slovenian Women's Stories on Migration. Akron: University of Akron Press, 213-234.
Bajuk Senčar, Tatiana. (2014). European Integration as Cultural Practice: The First Generation of Slovene Eurocrats. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. DOI: 10.3986/9789612547783.
- Wildlife in Borderlands (fundamental research project • March 1, 2026 - February 28, 2029)
- Competing Urgencies: Translating Climate Neutrality Policy in the European Union (EU-URGE) (fundamental research project • April 1, 2024 - March 31, 2028)
- Isolated People and Communities in Slovenia and Croatia (bilateral project • October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
- Urban Futures: Imagining and Activating Possibilities in Unsettled Times (bilateral project • November 1, 2020 - October 31, 2023)
- Protected Areas along the Slovenian-Hungarian border (bilateral project • June 1, 2017 - December 31, 2020)
- Park and enjoy nature! (research project • March 4, 2015 - January 31, 2017)
- The Anthropology of European Integration (July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2010)
- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (doctoral seminars: Everyday Life in Contemporary Migration Contexts; Anthropology of European Integration)
- New University, Faculty of Slovenian and International Studies (undergraduate level courses: Ethnology and Anthropology in Slovenia; Demography: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches)
- chief editor of journal Traditiones (2023-); member of editorial board (2011-2022)
- member of editorial board of Efka book series (2021-)
- head of scientific council of the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology ZRC SAZU (2025-); member (2012-2024)
- SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore): member; co-chair SIEF Working Group on Migration and Mobility (2025-)
- European Network for Multi-Locality Studies: member; organizer of annual meeting in Ljubljana (2025)
- EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists): member
- SED (Slovenian Ethnological Society): member
- ASEEES: Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (Society for Slovene Studies): member
- AAA (American Anthropological Association): member