Rogelja Caf – Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU

Assist. Prof. Nataša Rogelja Caf, Ph. D.

Research Associate at the Slovene Migration Institute ZRC SAZU; Assistant Professor in Ethnology.

Office: ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, 1st floor, room no. 106, Ljubljana
+386 1 4706 487
natasa.rogelja@zrc-sazu.si
Office hours: Monday, 10.00–12.00

Education:

University degree in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and Sociology of Culture (University of Ljubljana, 1998);
PhD in Social Anthropology (ISH – Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, 2005).

Fieldwork:

Istria and the wider Northern Adriatic hinterland (1994–1998);
Trieste Bay, Northern Adriatic Sea and the Istrian coast (1998–2004);
The Mediterranean (Ionian and Aegean Greece, coastal areas of Southern Turkey) (2006–2013);
Northern Adriatic area (2014–2017; 2019–2022; 2023–2025).

Research interests:

Lifestyle migrations
Anthropology of tourism
Maritime anthropology
Critical heritage studies
Anthropology and writing
Qualitative research methods
Mobile ethnography

Visiting positions:

Student researcher, Proteus Programme (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, May 2002);
Visiting researcher and lecturer, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, October 2023;
Visiting researcher and lecturer, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, October 2025.

Other:

Project leader Route biographies: walking and writing as methods for researching border regions
Editor-in-Chief and member of the Editorial Board (2025–). Collection of Essays. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC. https://footnotes.zrc-sazu.si/
Editor-in-Chief and member of the Editorial Board (2020–). Heriskop: discussions on heritage-making at the margins. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC. https://dediscina.zrc-sazu.si/sl/home/
Member of the Editorial Board (2015–). Slovenika: journal for culture, science and education. Belgrade: National Council of the Slovene National Minority. http://slovenci.rs/slovenika/
Member of the Editorial Board (2001–2004). Monitor ZSA: journal for historical, social and other anthropologies. Ljubljana: TROPOS – Association for Historical, Social and Other Anthropologies and Cultural Activities.
Member of the Editorial Board (2001–2004). Monitor ISH: journal for humanities and social sciences. Ljubljana: Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis – Faculty of Postgraduate Humanities Studies.
Guest editor of a thematic issue (2025). Traditiones: proceedings of the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones
Guest editor (2013, 2014, 2015, 2019). Two Homelands: migration studies. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC.
Exhibition curator (with Martina Bofulin) (2021). Coastal transformations: online exhibition. https://fishercoast.si/
Exhibition curator (with Špela Ledinek Lozej) (2015). Trade routes of Šavrinkas: women’s labour migrations in the first half of the 20th century in Istria and the popularization of Šavrinkas today. Zadar: University of Zadar, 5–7 June 2015.

BOOKS

ROGELJA CAF, Nataša in LEDINEK LOZEJ, Špela (2023). Hodopisi: zbirka etnografskih esejev z metodološkimi premisleki o hoji in pisanju. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. https://omp.zrc-sazu.si/zalozba/catalog/book/2056
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša (2018). Trinajsti mesec: portreti morskih nomadov. Preserje: Aktivni mediji.
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša in JANKO SPREIZER, Alenka (2017). Fish on the move: fishing between discourses and borders in the Northern Adriatic. Cham: Springer MARE publication series.
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša (2017). Blue horizons: anthropological reflections on maritime lifestyle migrations in the Mediterranean. Založba ZRC. https://omp.zrc-sazu.si/zalozba/catalog/book/1149
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša (2006). Ribiči pripovedujejo: etnografija ribištva med Savudrijskim in Miljskim polotokom. Koper: Univerza na Primorskem, Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče, Založba Annales.
LEDINEK LOZEJ, Špela in ROGELJA CAF, Nataša (2000). Potepanja po poteh Šavrinke Marije. Ljubljana: Slovensko etnološko društvo.

ARTICLES / CHAPTERS

ROGELJA CAF, Nataša (2024). Casting a sideways glance: walking-writing experiments with the river. ERNSTEN, Christian (ed.), SHEPHERD, Nick (ed.). Walking as embodied research: drift, pause, indirection. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.
GOMBAČ, Jure, ROGELJA CAF, Nataša, KLUN, Lucija (2024). Counter-archive : reflections on the (im)possibility of migrant heritage. Heriskop: razprave o dediščinjenju na obrobju https://dediscina.zrc-sazu.si/en/2024/05/counter-archive-reflections-on-the-nonpossibility-of-migrant-heritage/#page-content.
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša, BOFULIN, Martina, PIPAN, Primož (2023). Fish stories between past and future: competing and complementary heritage imaginaries in the Northeast Adriatic. Maritime studies 22(3). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40152-023-00327-z
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša (2023). I wonder how the story ends: the circular stillness of maritime lifestyle migrants. Mobility humanities 2(2).
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša (2022). Walking with the Rižana River: ethnographic experiments in the Anthropocene. Anthropological notebooks 28(3). https://anthropological-notebooks.zrc-sazu.si/Notebooks/article/view/545
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša, LEDINEK LOZEJ, Špela (2021). Footprints of the Camino in Slovenia: three ethnographic vignettes. TROTMAN, Tiffany Gagliardi (ed.). Walking the Camino de Santiago: essays on pilgrimage in the twenty-first century. Jefferson (North Carolina): McFarland & Co.
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša, LEDINEK LOZEJ, Špela (2021). Hodim, pišem, raziskujem: refleksija hoje in pisanja v etnološkem in antropološkem raziskovanju. Etnolog: glasnik Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja 31 = 82. https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/etnolog/etnolog-31-2021/i-walk-i-write-i-research-a-reflection-on-walking-and-writing-in-ethnological-and-anthropological
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša, JANKO SPREIZER, Alenka (2020). “Back to the future”: sprehod med ostanki ribiške industrije v Izoli. KOSMOS, Iva (ed.), PETROVIĆ, Tanja (ed.), POGAČAR, Martin (ed.). Zgodbe iz konzerve : zgodovine predelave in konzerviranja rib na severovzhodnem Jadranu. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC.
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša, JANKO SPREIZER, Alenka, BOFULIN, Martina (2020). Morje mnogih rib: odbiranja preteklosti v severovzhodnem Jadranu. Traditiones: zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje 49(3). https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/article/view/9427
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša (2019). A life in letters: an anthropological reflection on the correspondence of Slovene missionary sr. Conradina Resnik. Dve domovini: razprave o izseljenstvu http://twohomelands.zrc-sazu.si/en/articles/show/601/a-life-in-letters-an-anthropological-reflection-on-the-correspondence-of–slovene-missionary-sr-conradina-resnik
LEDINEK LOZEJ, Špela, ROGELJA CAF, Nataša, KANJIR, Urška (2018). Walks through the multi-layered landscape of Šavrinkas’ Istria: eggs, books, backpacks and stony paths. Landscape research 43 (5). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01426397.2017.1336207
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša (avtor, fotograf), JANKO SPREIZER, Alenka (2015). Welcome to Izola!: offering “authentic hospitality” on fishing boats. Annales: anali za istrske in mediteranske študije. Series historia et sociologia 25(2).
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša. “Sail away”: the biographical approach as a tool to understand the concept of temporarily unbelonging. Dve domovini: razprave o izseljenstvu http://twohomelands.zrc-sazu.si/en/articles/show/44/-sail-away-the-biographical-approach-as-a-tool-to-understand-the-concept-of-temporarily-unbelonging-
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša. (2014). “Vse po resnici!”: uporaba biografske metode ob raziskovanju Šavrink. Dve domovini: razprave o izseljenstvu 40. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/10811
JUNTUNEN, Marko, KALČIĆ, Špela, ROGELJA CAF, Nataša. (2014). Reflections on marginal mobile lifestyles: new European nomads, liveaboards and sha’bi Moroccan men. Nordic Journal of Migration Research. 4(1).
LEDINEK LOZEJ, Špela, ROGELJA CAF, Nataša. (2012). Šavrinka, Šavrini in Šavrinija v etnografiji in literaturi = The Šavrinka, Šavrin, and Šavrinija in ethnography and literature. PERENIČ, Urška (ed.). Prostor v literaturi in literatura v prostoru = Space in literature and literature in space. Ljubljana: Slavistično društvo Slovenije.
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša. (2006). Healthy Mediterranean food in local perspective: the case of the Slovenian coast. Anthropological notebooks 12(1).
ROGELJA CAF, Nataša. (2002). The ethnography of local tourism : connections between fishery and tourism in Izola. MAST 1(1).