Research Associate
+386 5 3357326
petra.testen@zrc-sazu.si
Her research focuses on cultural history and the challenges of oral history. She is interested in the history of everyday life, women's history, the history of work (with a particular focus on women's work), family history, and biography. She is particularly interested in the intersection of memory studies, border studies, gender studies, and transnational history.
At the Institute of Cultural History ZRC SAZU, she participates in the research programme “The (New) Cultural History of Intellectual Heritage. Slovenian Historical Space in Its European Context.” She is involved in the project of writing The New Slovenian Biographical Lexicon (NSBL), where she has participated as an author, editor and member of the editorial board, and since 2022 as editor-in-chief.
TESTEN KOREN, Petra. Slovene female textile workers and their alternative employment : a case study in Komen. V: VERGINELLA, Marta (ur.), STRLE, Urška (ur.). Women and work in the North-Eastern Adriatic : postwar transitions. Budapest; Vienna; New York: CEU Press, Central European University Press, cop. 2025. Str. 181-205, ilustr. Work and labor - transdisciplinary studies for the 21st century, vol. 5. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789633867518/women-and-work-in-the-north-eastern-adriatic.
TESTEN KOREN, Petra, CERGOL PARADIŽ, Ana. Slovene servants/domestic workers in Italian towns in the second half of the nineteenth century and the twentieth century. V: ROMAN, Nicoleta (ur.), ZUCCA MICHELETTO, Beatrice (ur.). Women, migration and the exchange of knowledge from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century : connecting Europe, reintegrating the East. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, cop. 2025. Str. 181-215, ilustr. Palgrave studies in gender and migration.
CERGOL PARADIŽ, Ana, TESTEN KOREN, Petra. Slovenske priseljenke v Trstu : vprašanje identitete ob ljudskem štetju 1910. Dve domovini : razprave o izseljenstvu, 2022, [Št.] 55, str. 151–171, tabele, graf. prikazi. doi: 10.3986/dd.2022.1.09.
TESTEN KOREN, Petra, CERGOL PARADIŽ, Ana. The excluded amongst the excluded? : Trst/Trieste and (Slovene) servants after the First World War. Acta Histriae, 2021, letn. 29, št. 4, str. 887–920. doi: 10.19233/AH.2021.35.
TESTEN KOREN, Petra. (War)fare: women behind the Isonzo front line and the issue of food. V: BOISSERIE, Étienne (ur.), MONDINI, Marco (ur.). I disarmati = The disarmed : profunghi, prigioneri e donne del fronte italo-austriaco = refugees, prisoners and women of the Austro-Italian front, (Studie e ricerche, 5). [Rovereto]: Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra. 2020, str. 73–96, 269, graf. prik.
TESTEN KOREN, Petra. Sostenitori e collaboratori maschili di Slovenka (1897-1902). V: VERGINELLA, Marta (ur.).Slovenka : il primo giornale femminile sloveno (1897-1902), (Exempla). 1a ed. Trieste: Vita Activa. 2019, str. 107–123.
TESTEN KOREN, Petra. Minka Skabernè (1882-1965), die Gründerin der ersten slowenischen Blindenbücherei. V: KRAMBERGER, Petra (ur.), SAMIDE, Irena (ur.), ŽIGON, Tanja (ur.). Frauen, die studieren, sind gefährlich : ausgewählte Porträts slowenischer Frauen der Intelligenz. 1. Aufl. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. 2018, str. 243–270, 269–270, 275.
Materinstvo in reproduktivna politika v 19. in 20. stoletju (October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
Književna republika Borisa Pahorja (October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
InTaVia (international research project • November 1, 2020 - October 31, 2023)
Biographies, mentalities, epochs 2015‒2019 (research programme • January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2019)
The New Slovenian Biographical Lexicon (NSBL) (January 1, 2010 - )
* 2004
she graduated in History (major) and Philosophy (minor) at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, with the thesis Ženske, delo in družina – filozofski in zgodovinski vidiki (služkinje, “dikle”, hišne pomočnice)
* 2011
received her PhD in History with the dissertation Hišne pomočnice – žensko delo v mreži narodnih in socialnih odnosov na Goriškem v 19. in 20. stoletju.