urska.strle@zrc-sazu.si
- History of migration: study of the history of Slovenian emigration in Canada, study of the history of forced migration in Slovenia in the 20th century (refugees, exiles, internment), study of immigration to Slovenia after 1960, study of migration using biographical and micro-historical methods.
- Labour history: analysis of the tobacco factory in Ljubljana, with emphasis on its workers, in parallel with the study of other tobacco factories and labour history in general.
- Oral history: theory and methodology of oral history, use of oral history in particular in the fields of migration history and women's history.
- Women's history: research on migrants, refugees, internees, women in war, women in the war and post-war economy, case studies using biographical and micro-historical methods, women's newspapers.
- Biographical studies: dealing with personal narratives (ego-documents) and their translation into a biographical record with a historical context.
Materinstvo in reproduktivna politika v 19. in 20. stoletju (October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
The history of women's work in the 19th and 20th centuries in Slovenia (research project • October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2026)
Education:
2004 - Bachelor's degree in history with the thesis Žena ostani žena!: žensko vprašanje in odnos do ženske v slovaškem in slovenskem ženskem časopisju do razpada monarhije [Woman should remain a woman!: the women's question and attitudes towards women in Slovak and Slovene women's newspapers until the collapse of the monarchy"] (mentor: prof. dr. Janez Cvirn)
2010 - Doctor of Philosophy in the field of historiography with doctoral thesis: Slovenci v Kanadi: izseljevanje skozi prizmo življenjskih zgodb [Slovenians in Canada: emigration through the prism of life stories] (mentor: prof. dr. Marta Verginella)
Employment:
2006-2010 - young research fellow at the Slovenian Migration Institute ZRC SAZU
2010-2013 - Assistant Professor with PhD at the Slovenian Migration Institute ZRC SAZU
2012-2017 - Assistant Professor with PhD at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, UL
2018-2023 - Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, UL
2023 - Research Fellow at ZRS Koper
Education abroad:
1999/2000 - one-year study in Bratislava within the Socrates programme
2006 (October) - three-week intensive course for postgraduate students in the field of migration studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany
2011 (September) - one-month scholarship at the University of Stavanger, Norway within the Mobility Programme (Norwegian Financial Mechanism, EEA Grants)
2012 (April) - one month postdoctoral fellowship in Toronto (International Council for Canadian Studies)
2022 (November) - three-week exchange at the University of Padua (Erasmus+)