Petrović-Šteger – Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU

Asst. Prof. Maja Petrović-Šteger, Ph. D.

Research Fellow, Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Office: ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2/II, No. 303
Tel.: 01 4706 537
Email: maja.petrovic-steger@zrc-sazu.si
Office hours: Tuesdays 10 – 12

Education and main appointments:

B. A. in Cultural Studies at Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), 1999.
MPhil in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge (UK), 2002.
PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge (UK), 2007.
JRF Fellow, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge (UK), 2006–2010.
Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge (UK), 2008–2010.
Independent Scholar and a Research Associate, at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge (UK), 2011-2013.
Research Fellow, Independent Social Research Foundation, London (UK), 2014.
Research Fellow at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Art, Ljubljana (Slovenia), 2014 – .
Assistant Professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU
Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Centre for Tibetan and Anthropological studies, Chengdu University (China), March through May 2015.
Research Fellow, Morphomata, Univesity of Köln, Centre for the Advanced Studies and Humanities (Germany), September 2015 through February 2016.

Fieldwork:

Slovenia (1998; 2001)
Tasmania, Australia (2003-2004; 2006; 2009)
Switzerland (2007 – 2010)
Serbia (2002 -2005; 2007-2010; 2012-2026)

Research interests:

Anthropology of death and dying;
Anthropology of ideas and consciousness;
Anthropology of body;
Medical anthropology;
Anthropology of the postconflict and reconciliation;
History of anthropological thought and theoretical approaches;
Neuroanthropology;
Bioart;
Mental health;
Water and sacred in anthropology;
Visionary practices/anthropology of the imaginal;
Serbia, Tasmania, Switzerland;

Teaching Experience:

I have taught and lectured both undergraduate and graduate students on various subjects (e.g. Anthropology of Death; Symbolic Anthropology; Anthropology of Law; Anthropology of Noneuropean societies; Medical anthropology; etc.) at the University of Ljubljana, University of Cambridge, University of Maribor, Chengdu University (China).
I have organised, delivered, chaired and acted as discussant for a number of conference papers, including invited papers at the Universities of Hobart (Tasmania), Turku (Finland), Edinburgh (UK), Yale (USA), Osaka (Japan), København (Denmark), Manchester (UK), Oslo (Norway), Bilbao (Spain) and elsewhere.
I have advised more than fifteen students and colleagues (in Social Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Social and Political Studies, International Relations, etc.) on their research theses and applications in the areas of Central and SouthEastern Europe and Australia.

Research/Doctoral Supervision:

Ahac Meden, ‘The Role of Digital Humanities in Sharing Knowledge in Public Scientfic Institutions’.
Aleksandra Gačić, ‘Life within Limits: Childlessness, Infertility and Health Care in urban areas of Ethiopia’.
Nastja Slavec, ‘Dancing as an Euskaldun: experiences and subjectivities of Basque speakers and dancers’.
Luka Benedičič ‘Vitality along the Mekong: An Anthropological Study of Devotional Objects in Buddhist Laos’.

PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja. 2025. Visionaries in Hiding: Figuring and Prefiguring. In: The Oracle: On Fantasy and Freedom. Edited by Chus Martinez and Ajda Ana Kocutar. London: Sterenberg Press, 97-116.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja. 2021. The Textures of Touch: a study of a sensory journey into creativity, fashion, and entrepreneurship. Studia ethnologica Croatica. 2021 (33): 121-145. ISSN 1330-3627. https://hrcak.srce.hr/268252, DOI: 10.17234/SEC.33.5
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja. 2020. On the side of predictable: Visioning the Future in Serbia / O onome što predvidljivo ne obuhvaća: Zamišljanje bodućnosti u Srbiji. In Etnološka tribina: Godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva, 50 (43): 3-67.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja. 2020. ‘Calling the Future into Being: Timescripting in Contemporary Serbia’. In Biography – A Play? Poetological Experiments in a Genre Without Poetics. Edited by Günter Blamberger, Rüdiger Görner and Adrian Robanus. Paderborm: Wilhelm Fink, 163-179.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja. 2019. Pred-časnost in po-časnost znanstvenih vizij Gregoryja Batesona. In Bateson, Gregory. Ekologija idej: zbrani eseji iz antropologije, psihiatrije, evolucije in epistemologije . 537-551. Ljubljana: Beletrina: Knjižna zbirka Koda.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja. 2018. O “odprtem pogledu” Miselne pokrajine in doživljanje časa družbenih podjetnikov in vizionarjev v današnji Srbiji. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva, 58 (3-4): str. 7-23.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja. 2017. ‘O ontološkem obratu in tem, kako antropologi vrednotimo in drugotimo druge in drugo’. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva, 57 (3-4): str. 12-17.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja. 2016. ‘O živih in spečih vodah: antropološka analiza rabe in doživljanja vode v Srbiji’. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva, 56 (3-4): str. 75-88.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja. 2016. ‘Understanding self-care: passing and healing in contemporary Serbia’, In Materialities of passing : explorations in transformation, transition and transience.Bjerregraard, Peter et al (eds.), 113-129.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja, 2013. ‘Claiming the Aboriginal Body in Tasmania’. An Anthropological Study of Repatriation and Redress. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja, 2013. ‘Parasecurity and Paratime in Serbia: Neocortical Defence and National Consciousness’, In Times of Security: Ethnographies of Fear, Protest and the Future. Pedersen Morten Axel in Holbraad Martin (ur.), 141-162. London: Routledge.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja, 2013. ‘Marilyn Strathern’, In SAGE Encyclopeadia, Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology. R. Jon McGee in Richard L. Warms (ur.), 816-819. SAGE.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja. 2012. ‘Mobile sepulchre and interactive formats of memoralization’. Journeys, 13(2): 71-89.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja, Jeanette, EDWARDS (ur.), 2011. Recasting Anthropological Knowledge: Inspiration and Social Science. Recasting Anthropological Knowledge: Inspiration and Social Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja, 2011. ‘Spools, loops and traces: on etoy encapsulation and three portraits of Marilyn Strathern’, In Recasting Anthropological Knowledge: Inspiration and Social Science. Edwards Jeanette in Petrović-Šteger Maja (eds.), 145-164. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja, 2009. ‘Anatomizing Conflict – Accommodating Human Remains’, In Social Bodies. McDonald Maryon in Lambert Helen (ur.), 47-76. London: Berghahn.
PETROVIĆ-ŠTEGER, Maja, 2008. ‘O odnosnostih v antropološki vednosti’, In Pisanje Antropologije. 245-271. Ljubljana: Koda, Študentska založba.
PETROVIĆ, Maja, 2005. ‘Srebreniška morišča in metini travniki: Vloga znanja in dokazov v rekonstrukciji preteklosti’, In Srebrenica: dokumenti-pričevanja-haaški proces. 321-333. Ljubljana: Koda.
PETROVIĆ, Maja. 2003 ‘The Practices of Justice and Understandings of Truth: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions’, Eurozine, 12.02.2003.