Nina Vodopivec

Nina Vodopivec is a social anthropologist. She has worked at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, Slovenia, since 2006, first as a researcher in the Economic and Social History program, and since 2021 in the Political History program. She has studied the experience of work in the post-socialist and neoliberal transformations, especially that of industrial workers. She has also studied workers' social memories of socialism, especially in relation to women’s emancipation. Between 2003 and 2010, she worked in the NGO sector, organizing and leading workshops on intercultural communication within the Humanitas Association. She has presented her research in numerous scientific and professional articles, most recently in a book entitled Silencing of the Sewing machines, Work Loss Experiences and Collapse of the factory, 2021 (in Slovenian). In 2010, she taught as a Fulbright Scholar at Wittenberg University in Ohio.