Helena Stolnik Trenkić; Visiting Fellowship 2022/23
Biography:
I am a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Cambridge, researching vernacular and contesting dimensions of the human right to self-determination developing in socialist Yugoslavia (1960-1990). My research, supervised by Dr Celia Donert, contributes to histories of European and global socialism, human rights and the international order, Yugoslav social movements, and connects histories of nationalism, federalism, and internationalism. I am fully funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Isaac Newton Trust. I hold a double-first in the Bachelor of Arts (History Tripos) (2017-2020) and Distinction in the MPhil for Modern European History (2020-2021), both at the University of Cambridge.
I co-convene the Modern European History Workshop for postgraduate students, am the Graduate Communications Officer for the Modern European History subgroup (Twitter @MEHCambridge), and am a Postgraduate Member of the Royal Historical Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
In addition to my academic work, my interest in human rights has led to internships and advocacy work at the United Nations, AIRE (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe) Centre, Office of the High Representative in Bosnia, and other groups and organisations.
Motivation:
My Fellowship comes one-and-a-half years into my PhD, when I am in the midst of gathering archival sources and progressing with writing projects. I hope that the exchange of ideas with colleagues at the INZ will generate inspiration at this creative stage of my doctoral dissertation; I would particularly like to engage in consultations with historians at INZ and other Ljubljana institutes as I sketch out my third chapter. I will use the INZ and National and University Library for source collection for this chapter. I hope additionally to finish the draft of my second research chapter for my dissertation as well as revise and finish an article manuscript for publication. Finally, I hope to engage especially with the political history programme group at INZ, and to improve my Slovenian language skills!
Visiting fellowship Jul 26 - Sep 16, 2023
Publications:
Helena Stolnik Trenkić, 'Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Imaginaries ed. by Paul Stubbs (review)' Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 101, No. 1 (January 2023), pp. 183-185.
