Senior Research Associate
danijel.grafenauer@inv.si
+386 1 200 18 93 
Danijel Grafenauer holds a PhD in history and is a professor of history and geography. During his studies, he spent a semester at the University of Klagenfurt as part of the Socrates-Erasmus program. He has been employed at the Institute for Ethnic Studies since 2005. In 2009, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled "The Life and Work of Julij Felaher and the Carinthian Slovenes." For this, he received first prize in a competition organized by the Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Slovenes Abroad and Around the World.
His research areas include Carinthian Slovenes, minorities in the Slovenian region, indigenous Slovenian communities in neighboring countries, diversity management, peace studies, inclusion and integration, dialogue processes of ethnic reconciliation, and minority protection in the EU. As a researcher and leader, he has worked on numerous national and international research projects. He presents the results of his research in various journals in Slovenia and abroad, at symposiums, round tables, in newspapers, public media, and elsewhere. In 2006, he became a member of the editorial board of the journal Koroški vestnik, and in 2014 he was appointed editor of the collection Etničnost / Ethnicity. In February 2017, he was appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia to the list of experts of the Moscow Mechanism of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. He is also the president of the Carinthian Slovenes Club in Maribor and secretary of the Carinthian Slovenes Club in Ljubljana, both founded in 1928, which bring together the descendants of post-plebiscite exiles from what is now Austrian Carinthia to central Slovenia. The clubs act as intermediaries in cultural exchanges between Slovenia and Austria.
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