Prof. Božo Repe

EDUCATION

• 1992: PhD in History (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts)

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of History

• 2002–: Full Professor of Contemporary Slovenian and General History

Visiting professor

• 2001: Comenius University in Bratislava

• 1996: University Vytautas Magnus in Kaunas

Visiting lectures

• 2017: Ghent University
• 2017: Free University of Brussels
• 2012: Charles University in Prague
• 2009: University of Graz
• 2004: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• 2002: University of Neuchâtel
• 2000: Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (University of Vienna)
• 1999: Institute of National History of University in Skopje

Project head

• 2017–: member of the SRA research project Make This Land German… Italian… Hungarian… Croatian… Again! Borders of Occupational Zones in Slovenia during the Second World War.

Research projects

• 2019–2021: Legacy of Yugoslavia and the future of the Region

• 2017–: član ARRS raziskovalnega projekta Begunci – nikoli dokončana zgodba

• 2014–2017: član ARRS raziskovalnega projekta Slovenski diplomati in zunanjepolitični vidiki osamosvajanja Republike Slovenije, 1980–1992

• 2010– : član ARRS programske skupine Slovenska zgodovina (Oddelek za zgodovino Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani)

• 2009–2012: član ARRS raziskovalnega projekta Manevrska struktura Narodne zaščite v organih za notranje zadeve leta 1990

• 2008 –: Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project

• 1996–2000: member of the SRA research project Arhivistična zgodovina

• 1997–1999: member of the SRA research project Slovenian History

• 1996–1998: member of the SRA research project Nemci na Slovenskem 1941–1955

• 2010–: member of the SRA programme group Slovenian History (Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)

Leadership of a bilateral project:

• 1998–1999: Slovenci in Makedonci v Jugoslaviji

Leading functions:

• 2009–: head of the SRA research group Slovenian History (Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)
• Member of the senate of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 1999–2001: representative of the Department of History, Faculty of Arts

Membership in rank groups

• 2017–: DMMK Association Forum: Forum for the International and Interdisciplinary Research Group, The Double Monarchy and the Middle Kingdom
• 2002–: Mauthausen Survivors Research Project (Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Wien
• 1999–: member of Bureau of the International Committee for the History of the Second World War
• 1999–: member of the Joint History Project (Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in South East Europe)

Other roles in the field of expertise

• President of the Matura Commission
• 2003–2004: Head of the Slovene part of the Slovene-Austrian Historical Commission
• 2000–: membership in the editorial board of the  Historical Review: A Journal of the Historical Association of Slovenia 1996–1998: Chairman of the Commission for the Reform of Curricula for History
• 1996–1998: member of the National Curriculum Council
• 1985–: member of the editorial board of Borec: a journal for history, literature and anthropology

Scholarships

• 2016: recipient of the Klio Award: Award of the Historical Association of Slovenia for research work in historiography for his volume S puško in knjigo: narodnoosvobodilni boj slovenskega naroda 1941–1945
• 1997: Tempus scholarship at the Institut d'histoire du temps present, Paris
• 1996: Institute for East and Southeast European Studies scholarship, Vienna
• 1995: scholarship of the French government at the Centre International d'Erudes Pédagogiques de Sévres, Paris
• 1994: Institute for East and Southeast European Studies scholarship, Vienna
• 1992: scholarship of the government of the USA at UCLA, Los Angeles

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

The position of Slovenes in various state formations; Central and South-Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia; democracy, parliamentarism and civil society; national issues, transnational relations, diplomacy; teaching history and methodological problems of historiography.