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About me

Barbara Turk Niskač is Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow working on the PatchWORK project (101061450 - PatchWORK - HORIZON-MSCA -2021- PF -01).

Barbara received her PhD in Ethnology, Cultural and Social Anthropology from the University of Ljubljana (2016). Previously, she worked as a junior research fellow and teaching assistant in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana and as a research assistant at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, ZRC SAZU. She also taught at the Sigmund Freud University of Ljubljana, worked for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM - UN ) and as a guardian for unaccompanied migrant children.

She was a visiting doctoral student at the University of Sarajevo, Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies (2008), a Fulbright visiting scholar at Rutgers University, USA (2016), and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies - Southeast Europe (CAS SEE), University of Rijeka, Croatia (2018). 

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Research topics

Anthropology of childhood, anthropology of work, anthropology of education, environmental anthropology, multispecies ethnography, visual and multimodal anthropology, participatory visual methods, sensory ethnography