Anthropology and Sociology of Work
Medical Anthroplogy
Feminist Political Economy
Welfare State
Anthropology and Sociology of Work
Medical Anthropology
Feminist Political Economy
Welfare State
2026 Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education, Yehuda Elkana Center, Central European University
2025 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Comparative Gender Studies, Central European University
2019 Master (MA) in Arts and Culture (Research), Utrecht University
2015 Master (MA) in Graphic arts, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb
2026 – 2029 Associate Researcher, School for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St.Gallen
2025 – 2026 Associate Researcher, The Center for Interdisciplinary Aging and Care Research (CIRAC), University of Graz
2024 – 2025 Research Fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, AT
2022 - 2023 Teaching Assistent for ´Qualitative Research Methods: Ethnographic Approaches (M), (Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Elissa Helms), Department of Gender Studies, Central European University
2018 Tutoring at NOISE summer school ‘Social and Political Suffocations’ (NOISE =
Network Of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies in Europe), Utrecht University
2026 – 2029 The Global hospital: Reproducing healthcare through entanglements of labor, mobility and knowledge in Switzerland and Austria (Researcher for Subproject: "Dis/entangling routes of labor: Tracing diasporic and recruitment pathways of hospital workers", January 2026-December 2029, WEAVE-SNSF/FWF Project, cooperation with FH Bern and University of Vienna)
2025 – 2026 Project Assistant for Transforming Anxieties of Ageing in Southeastern Europe: Political, Social, and Cultural Narratives of Demographic Change (February 2022- January 2026). VolkswagenStiftung. Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS), cooperation with University of Graz, Sofia University, and Hungarian Demographic Research Institute
2024 Award for the advanced doctoral students, Central European University
2020 Winner of the 2020 Hélène Phoa Gender Studies Research Thesis Prize, Utrecht University
2019 Graduated from MA in Arts and Culture (Research) with the distinction of Cum Laude, Utrecht University
2015 Special award for academic achievements during the studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb
Conferences:
2024 21st Annual Historical Materialism Conference. Presenting the paper ‘Value, time, and money in palliative care volunteering.’ SOAS, Russell Square, Central London, UK
2024 Border Crossings: Charity and Voluntarism in Britain’s Mixed Economy of Health Care Since 1948. Presenting the paper ‘How to be human in the inhuman world? Obtaining humanity through palliative care volunteering’. British Medical Association, London, UK
2024 4th Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA). Presenting the paper ‘Self-help through helping others. Developing (spiritual) human capital in palliative care volunteering’. University of Vienna, AT
2024 International Labour Process Conference. Presenting the paper ‘The ‘priceless’ value of accompanying the dying: Unpaid labour, voluntarism, and palliative care. Göttingen, DE
2023 In the Frictions: Fragments of Care, Health, and Wellbeing in the Balkans. Presenting the paper ‘Spirituality in the end-of-life care. A comparative study of volunteer palliative care work in Austria and Croatia’. University of Zadar, Zadar, CRO
2019 16th Annual Historical Materialism Conference. Presenting the paper ‘Micro politics of care and re/organisation of social reproduction in the case of migrant eldercare work.’ SOAS, Russell Square, Central London, UK
2019 European Geographies of Sexualities conference (EGSC). Presenting the paper ‘From Bodies to Work to Social Reproduction. Revisiting daily routines and intimacy in migrant eldercare work.’ Charles University, Faculty of Science, Prague, CZ
Invited Talks:
2021 Giving a lecture ‘Social reproduction, sociology of work, and migrant care work.’
Subversive festival, Zagreb, CRO
2020 Giving a lecture within an MA course ‘Gender and Social Inclusion.’ Utrecht
University, NL