KATJA JERMAN, Assistant

Katja Jerman was born in 1976 in Ljubljana, where she studied at the Faculty of Arts. In September 2001 she graduated from the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and the Department of History by presenting her undergraduate thesis titled Promenada v Ljubljani (The Promenade in Ljubljana), for which she received the Faculty of Arts’ Prešeren Award. Since 2003 she has been working as a research assistant at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology. As part of her graduate studies at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology she is involved in urban ethnology and preparing a doctoral dissertation on the same subject.

Research interests: urban ethnology, urbanization, identifications, town, ethnic affiliation, border, marginality, community, micro-communities, Nova Gorica, Gorica/Gorizia.

Selected publications:

2003 Promenada v Ljubljani. Ljubljana: Viharnik.
2004 O povezovanju med Novo Gorico in Gorico. v: Izvestje Raziskovalne postaje ZRC SAZU v Novi Gorici, 30-37.
2004 Razvoj slovenskih društev in institucij v Gorici do vstopa fašizma, v: Klanjšek, Martin (ur.). Znanstveno delo podiplomskih študentov v Sloveniji - "publish or perish!" : e-knjiga. Ljubljana: Društvo mladih raziskovalcev Slovenije, 197-212.
2005 Situation without the Slovene-Italian frontier: historical impossibility or future reality?. v: Pinter, Andrej (ur.). Communication in the global world: international graduate student conference. Ljubljana: Slovenian Communication Association, 117-134.

Tel.: +386 (0)1 4706 282; (0)5 335 73 22
Fax: +386 (0)1 4257 752
E-mail: katja.jerman@zrc-sazu.si