Research Areas:

  • History of everyday life
  • Cultural history
  • Social history

Biography:

Dragica Čeč has graduated in 2002 in history at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts. Between 2002 and 2009, she was a postgraduate student of the doctoral study programme History at the same Faculty. She received her PhD degree in 2009, with a thesis on marginal groups in 18th century (“Poor, Beggars and crimials in 18th century in Krain”), supervised by Marko Štuhec and Boris Golec.

She is employed at the Science and Research Centre, Institute for Historical Studies as a research associate, where she is active since the beginning of his career as a researcher. In the years from 2006 to 2016, she collaborated with the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia as an Assistant, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor within the undergraduate and MA courses of History. In 2019 she was guest lecturer at MA course History of Gender on University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.

Dragica Čeč has received following grants and awards for her work:

  • 2012: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellowship for postdoctoral research at the University of Saarland, Germany;
  • 2011: July-December: Visiting Fellowship at the Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria (sponsored by the Ministry of Science, Austria);
  • 2010: The Glasnik znanosti award (by the Science and Research Center of Koper) for individual top scientific achievements of promising researchers;
  • 2003-2004 Herder Stiftung Hamburg, Fellowship for doctoral research and study at University of Vienna.
She regularly presents the results of her research at scientific conferences and publishes them in both Slovenia and international peer-reviewed journals and publications.