Research Councillor
juric.pahor@alice.it
Marija Jurić Pahor (maiden name: Korenjak) was born in 1956 in St. Margareten im Rosental/Šmarjeta v Rožu, Carinthia, Austria. She graduated in pedagogy from the University of Klagenfurt in 1985. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in sociology in 1998 at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. For several years she was secretary and then researcher at the Slovenian Scientific Institute in Klagenfurt/Celovec. In 1989, she moved to Trieste/Trst, where she worked for almost ten years at the Slovenian Research Institute. Since 1999, she has been employed at the Institute for Ethnic Studies in Ljubljana, and since 2011 as a research councillor. She has been the leader of several national (Austrian, Slovenian) and co-leader of one international research project. Her research is closely linked to contemporary historical research on war, persecution, and resistance, as well as to transcultural and minority studies. She also pays special attention to the topics of trauma and memory in connection with fascism and Nazism, and national and ethnic identity in the contemporary globalized world. Geographically, her work focuses on the cross-border area between Austria, Slovenia and Italy. She is the author of numerous scientific articles and books. Her monograph entitled Med krukastim in kljukastim križem: koroški Slovenci v času zgodnjega nacizma (Between crutch cross and swastika: Carinthian Slovenes in the time of early Nazism) will be published by Hermagoras/Mohorjeva Publishing House in Klagenfurt/Celovec in December 2025.
