Main Visiting Appointments and Research Stays:

• Field Research, California and Minnesota, USA, 2024
• Visiting Professor, University of Sarajevo, Academy of Music, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, academic year 2019/2020 and academic year 2017/2018
• Visiting Professor, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Graz, Austria, 2017
• Research Grant of the Slovene Research Initiative, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2016
• Visiting Professor, The Ohio State University, School of Music, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2016
• Research Fellow, The National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2015
• Research Fellow, Department of Russian Folklore, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2012
• Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia, 2011
• Research Fellow, Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2011
• Research Fellow, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA, 2010
• Research Fellow, Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, several visits between 1994–2008

Leadership Positions

• Head of the Sound Archive of the Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU (1993–2024)
• Head of the Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU (2015–2019)
• Chair of the Slovenian Committee of the Slovene Research Initiative, in partnership with The Ohio State University, Center for Slavic and East European Studies (2018–2025)
• Chair of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Ethnomusicology, ZRC SAZU (2010–2014)

Membership in National and International Associations and Expert Groups

• Member of the Slovenian Acoustical Society (SDA) (1998– )
• Member of the Slovenian Society for Conservation-Restoration (DRS) (2003– )
• Founding member of the Cultural and Ethnomusicological Society Folk Slovenija (1996– ); member of the Executive Board (1996–2000) and first President (1996–1998)
• Member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) (1995– )
• Member of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) (1996– )
• Member of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) (1999– ); active particularly in the ICTMD Study Group on Sources and Archives for Music and Sound Studies and the ICTMD Study Group on Music and Dance of the Slavic World
• Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU (2001– )

Editorial Activities:

• Editorial Board Member, Traditiones (scholarly journal), 2015–; Guest Editor, issues 43/2 (2014) and 48/2 (2019)
• Editorial Board Member at the The International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, Study Group on Music and Dance of the Slavic World, 2023–
• Editorial Board Member, Iz arhiva Glasbenonarodopisnega inštituta, audio publication series, 2012–2023
• Editorial Board Member, Glasba na Slovenskem po 1918 , monograph series, 2018–
• Editorial Board Member, Etnofon series, 2023–
• Guest Co-editor, Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology. Poznań: Rhytmos, 2022.
• Editorial Board Member, Tradition and Transition: A Selection of Articles Developed from Paper Presentations at the First and the Second Symposia of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of the Slavic World, 2020
• Co-editor, Trapped in Folklore. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2013

Teaching:

• Music Acoustics, course coordinator and lecturer, Academy of Music and Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (2008–)
• Music Folkloristics: An Introduction, course coordinator and lecturer, Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana (2012–)
• Instrumental Folk Music and Folk Dance, course coordinator and lecturer, Academy of Music and Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (2012–)
• Selected Topics in Slovenian Folk Musical Heritage, course coordinator and lecturer, Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana (2012–)
• Supervision of Master’s and doctoral theses

Coordination of National and International Research Projects:

• In New Disguise: Changes in Traditional Music and Dance Culture in Hungary, Slovenia and Around, principal investigator of the partner section, international cross-border research project, 2022-2025
• Memory of Religion in Folk Music Archives, principal investigator of the partner section, international cross-border research project, 2016-2018
• Zvočno gradivo gramofonskih plošč kot vir etnomuzikoloških in folklorističnih raziskav (Sound Material from Phonograph Records as a Source for Ethnomusicology and Folklore Research), principal investigator, national research project, 2009-2012
• EuropeanaConnect – eContentplus Programme, principal investigator of the partner section, EU research project, 2009-2011,
• Preservation and On-line Fruition of the Audio Documents from the European Archives of Ethnic Music (Culture 2000 Programme), principal investigator of the partner section, EU research project, 2003-2006

Monographs

• Kunej, D. and R. Kunej. 2017. Music from both sides. Gramophone records made by Matija Arko and the Hoyer Trio. 1st English ed. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU
• Kunej, D. and R. Kunej. 2016. Glasba z obeh strani. Gramofonske plošče Matije Arka in Hoyer tria. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU; Ribnica: Rokodelski center, 2016
• Kunej, D. 2008. Fonograf je dospel! Prvi zvočni zapisi slovenske ljudske glasbe, (Zbirka Folkloristika). Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU.

Articles/Chapters

• Kunej, D. 2025. The Trinajsto prase ensemble and the folk music revival in Slovenia. Muzikološki zbornik 61 (1): 103-131.
• Kunej, D. 2025. France Marolt’s research, artistic and educational work as reflected on sound recordings. Traditiones 54 (2): 75-96.
• Kunej, D. 2025. Snimke slovenske narodne glazbe i glazbenika. In: Naila Ceribašić (ed.), Dora Dunatov (ed.), Jelka Vukobratić (ed.). Rana domaća diskografska industrija: Edison Bell Penkala, Elektroton i Jugoton. Zagreb: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku; Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, 489-505.
• Kunej, D. 2023. The changing nature of instrumental music and musicians in folk dance ensembles. Traditiones 52 (2): 69-90.
• Kunej, D. 2022. Slovenian traditional music and the media: a study of early gramophone records. Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology 22: 93-109.
• Kunej, D. 2022. Sound recordings and Karel Štrekelj : the initiator of a new approach to folk song research in Slovenia. Muzikologija 33: 39-52.
• Kunej, D. 2020. Presentations and transformations of traditional music practices as reflected in sound recordings. In: Sonja Zdravkova-Džeparoska (ed.). Tradition and transition: a selection of articles developed from paper presentations at the first and the second symposia of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of the Slavic World. Skopje, North Macedonia: ICTM NC Macedonia, 29–50.
• Kunej, D. and R. Kunej. 2019. Dancing for ethnic roots: folk dance ensembles of ethnic minority groups in Slovenia. Muzikološki zbornik 55(2): 111–131.
• Kunej, D. 2017. 78 rpm records as a source for ethnomusicology and folklore research: experiences from Slovenia. V: Susanne Ziegler (ur.). Historical sources of ethnomusicology in contemporary debate. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 34–49.
• Kunej, D. 2014. Leto 1908 – začetek diskografije slovenske glasbe?. Traditiones 43(2): 51–73.
• Kunej, D. 2014. Intertwinement of Croatian and Slovenian musical heritage on the oldest gramophone records. Narodna umjetnost 51(1): 131–153.
• Kunej, D. 2013.Digitised early sound recordings as scholarly resources. In: Trapped in folklore?: studies in music and dance tradition and their contemporary transformations, (Musikethnologie, Bd. 7, vol. 7, Drago Kunej (ed.), Urša Šivic (ed.). Zürich; Berlin: LIT, 181–196.
• Kunej, D. 2004.The use of CD-Rs for archival storage and preservation: vulnerability of CD-Rs based on the susceptibility to sunlight experiment. IASA 21: 65-80.
• Kunej, D. and I. Turk. 2000. New perspectives on the beginnings of music: archeological and musicological analysis of a middle Paleolithic bone “flute”. In: The origins of music, Nils L Wallin (ed.), Bjorn Merker (ed.), Steven Brown (ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 235–268.