Dr Ana Kladnik

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Ana Kladnik joined the Institute for Contemporary History in Ljubljana in 2020. She received her PhD in history from the University of Ljubljana, after being a PhD researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History in Prague. She then worked at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) in Potsdam and at the Hannah-Arendt-Institut, Technische Universität Dresden. She was a Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh (2011), at the University of Liverpool (2016/17) and for many years she taught at the Charles University in Prague. She has held fellowships in Potsdam, Berlin, Sarajevo and Jena. Currently she is an editorial board member of Securitas Imperii.

Research interests: She works on modern European history (particularly East Central Europe), political and social transformation process of the 19^th – 21^st centuries, socialism, democratization, nationalism, urban history, and the history of civil society.

Ana Kladnik has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship by the European Commission. Starting in 2023, she will be working on a project A Land of Joiners. A Gender History of Volunteer Fire Departments in a Three-Border-Region of East Central Europe in Times of Political Transformation, 1918-1989, at the University of Graz, Department for Sociology / Sociology of Gender.

In 2021 and 2022 she has been organising the Lecture Series / Festival History on the Edge:

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Selected publications

Forthcoming:

Velenje: A Local Community’s Quest for its Town Heritage and Identity, in: Valentin Mihaylov, Mikhail Ilchenko (eds.): Post-Utopian Spaces Transforming and Re-Evaluating Urban Icons of Socialist Modernism, Routledge 2023. Post-Utopian Spaces: Transforming and Re-Evaluating Urban Icons of Soc (routledge.com)

Recently published:

• Celia Donert, Ana Kladnik, Martin Sabrow (eds.), Making Sense of Dictatorship. Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945, Central European University Press 2022

Making Sense of Dictatorship | CEUPress 

• Ana Kladnik, guest editor, Volunteering and Voluntary Associations in the Post-Yugoslav States, Südosteuropa Journal of Politics and Society, Vol. 68, no. 2 (2020), De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 125-273. Südosteuropa Volume 68 Issue 2 (2020) (degruyter.com)

• Ana Kladnik and Thomas Lindenberger (guest editors), Volunteering in (Post-)Communism. Totalitarianism and Democracy. HAIT, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020/2. Totalitarismus und Demokratie 2020 Jg. / Vol. 17, Heft / Issue 2 | Zeitschriften und Kapitel | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage (vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com)

Selected articles:

• Local Governance, Voluntary Practices, and the Sinnwelt of Socialist Velenje, in: Celia Donert, Ana Kladnik and Martin Sabrow (eds.): Making Sense of Dictatorship. Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945, CEU Press 2022, pp. 83-109.

• A Nation of Joiners. Volunteer Firefighters and Slovenian Nation- and State-Building from Below, in: Ana Kladnik (ed.): Volunteering and Voluntary Associations in the Post-Yugoslav States, Südosteuropa Journal of Politics and Society, Vol. 68, no. 2 (2020), De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 148-175.  https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2020-0013

• A Smouldering Fire: The National, Political and Gender Adaptations of Volunteer Firefighters in Interwar Yugoslavia, chapter in: Fabio Giomi and Stefano Petrungaro (eds.): Voluntary Associations in Yugoslavia, 1918-1941, European Review of History, Volume 26, issue 1 (2019), Routledge Taylor & Francis, pp. 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2018.1474178

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