Manca Koren
Assistant
Field of Research
Her research focus covers the fields of cultural history and social gender studies. It centers on the examination of the historically and socially conditioned position of women, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of labor, migration, and social protection. Within this framework, her work includes the analysis of female labor migration, the informal economy, and the role of the welfare state in regulating (or neglecting) specific forms of women’s work and care. Additionally, her research extends to issues of women’s mental health as a structurally conditioned social phenomenon. She employs interdisciplinary approaches that enable a holistic understanding of individual destinies and broader social changes over time.
Curriculum vitae
Manca Koren is a cultural historian, currently a Young Researcher at the Institute for Slovenian Migration Studies at ZRC SAZU and a doctoral student at the ZRC SAZU Graduate School. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Cultural History from the School of Humanities at the University of Nova Gorica, with a thesis on hysteria in Slovenian discourse prior to World War I. She completed her master’s studies in Marital and Family Studies at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, where she focused on analyzing the family lives of the Aleksandrinke through personal correspondence. Part of this research has been published in the monograph Love in Letters (Ljubezen v pismih).
During her undergraduate and postgraduate education, she participated in several research and applied projects in the fields of cultural history, migration, and heritage. These include the PKP project Innovative Approaches to Treating Trauma, the Aleksandrinke project, and Coal Story, which resulted in an exhibition at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum. She currently serves as an Assistant at the School of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica and the Faculty of Applied Social Studies, while also serving as a member of the editorial board for the journal Platforma.