Andreja Mesaric

Ms A. Mesarič graduated from the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and has been enrolled in the Doctoral Programme of the same Department since 2004. Her Doctoral research addresses the transformation of religious and national identities in present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina, and focuses on Islamic revival and gender. A. Mesarič has held a position of a Teaching Research Assistant and Research Fellow (2006-2009) at the Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, carrying out practical courses for undergraduate students on anthropology of migration, anthropology of advertising, popular culture, and methodology, and coordinated a course on the culture and history of Slovenia (2006). She has also contributed to several non-governmental organisations in Slovenia, working in the fields of intercultural communication, tolerance and refugees (2003, 2004), and was involved in data-collecting on trafficking for the International Organisation for Migration and Peace Institute (2003).

Research Interests

Andreja Mesarič's current academic intersts include Islamic revival in the Balkans and the relation between Islam and feminism. She draws methodological and theoretical approaches mainly from anthropology and gender studies.