Curriculum Vitae
Barbara Turk Niskač was Research Assistant at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, ZRC SAZU from 2019 to 2022. In 2007, she graduated from the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology with a thesis entitled Chaos and Cosmos among Albanian and Macedonian Youth in Gostivar, for which she conducted nine months of field research in Macedonia. From 2008 to 2016, she worked in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology as a Junior Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant. In 2016, she received a PhD in Ethnology, Cultural and Social Anthropology. Her dissertation, Playing at Work, Working at Play: An Ethnographic Study of Learning in Early Childhood, for which she conducted ethnographic fieldwork in two kindergartens, examined the relationship between play, work, and learning in early childhood.
She was a visiting doctoral student at the University of Sarajevo, Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies (2008), Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University, USA (2016) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies - Southeast Europe (CAS SEE), University of Rijeka, Croatia (2018). In 2019, she was awarded a Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Scholarship and a postdoctoral research project by the Slovenian Research Agency at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology.
Besides academic activities, she worked for the International Organization for Migration (IOM - UN Agency) as a project assistant on "Protecting Children in the Context of the Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe." She also worked as a guardian for unaccompanied migrant children, organised participatory photography and film workshops for primary school children, and wrote several articles for general audiences on the anthropology of childhood and parenting.
In the academic year 2021/2022 she taught Theory of Culture and Historical Anthropology at Sigmund Freud University - Ljubljana.
Curriculum Vitae
Barbara Turk Niskač was Research Assistant at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, ZRC SAZU from 2019 to 2022. In 2007, she graduated from the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology with a thesis entitled Chaos and Cosmos among Albanian and Macedonian Youth in Gostivar, for which she conducted nine months of field research in Macedonia. From 2008 to 2016, she worked in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology as a Junior Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant. In 2016, she received a PhD in Ethnology, Cultural and Social Anthropology. Her dissertation, Playing at Work, Working at Play: An Ethnographic Study of Learning in Early Childhood, for which she conducted ethnographic fieldwork in two kindergartens, examined the relationship between play, work, and learning in early childhood.
She was a visiting doctoral student at the University of Sarajevo, Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies (2008), Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University, USA (2016) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies - Southeast Europe (CAS SEE), University of Rijeka, Croatia (2018). In 2019, she was awarded a Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Scholarship and a postdoctoral research project by the Slovenian Research Agency at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology.
Besides academic activities, she worked for the International Organization for Migration (IOM - UN Agency) as a project assistant on "Protecting Children in the Context of the Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe." She also worked as a guardian for unaccompanied migrant children, organised participatory photography and film workshops for primary school children, and wrote several articles for general audiences on the anthropology of childhood and parenting.
In the academic year 2021/2022 she taught Theory of Culture and Historical Anthropology at Sigmund Freud University - Ljubljana.