Dr Maja Lukanc
- maja.lukanc@inz.si
- +386 (1) 200 31 39
- Research Assistent PhD
- SICRIS (bibliography)
Research interests:
- Political, diplomatic and cultural history of Eastern Europe in the Cold War
- Cultural diplomacy and transnational exchange | Friendship in international relations
- State-society relations in communist regimes | Popular opinion in authoritarian regimes
- History of Yugoslavia | History of Poland | History of Czechoslovakia
Education:
- PhD in Contemporary History | University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts | 2015—2020 | Doctoral Thesis: Polish-Yugoslav relations between 1945 and 1956 | Supervisors Professor Aleš Gabrič and Professor Kornelija Ajlec
- MA in Medieval History | University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts | 2007—2015 | Master Thesis: Anna of Celje (Cilli): A biography framework | Supervisor Academic Professor Peter Štih
Academic honours:
- Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Field of Humanities by University of Ljubljana | 2020
- University Prešern Award for the Outstanding Master Thesis | 2015
Fellowships and mobility:
- Josef Dobrovský Fellowship for Foreign Researchers | 2022 | Prague, Czech Republic | Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
- Pipes Laboratory Scholarship for Foreign Researchers | 2022 | Warsaw, Poland | Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Fulbright Visiting Scholar | 2019—2020 | College Park, USA | University of Maryland | Supervisor Professor Piotr K. Kosicki
Research programmes and projects :
- Gender and Intellectual History in Serbian and Slovenian Periodical Press in the 20th Century | Bilateral project Slovenia-Serbia (principal investigator for Slovenian part of the project)
- Prospects and boundaries of international friendship: Polish-Yugoslav relations between 1956 and 1968 | Z6-4605 Slovenian Research Agency postdoctoral research project (principal investigator)
- Sin, Shame, Symptom: Suicide and its perceptions in Slovenia (1850–2000) | J6-3123 Slovenian Research Agency research project (participant)
- Creating, Maintaining, Reusing: Border Commissions as the Key for Understanding Contemporary Borders | J6-2574 Slovenian Research Agency research project (participant)
- Political History | P6‐0281 Slovenian Research Agency research programme (participant)
