Department of History
Harvard University
PhD candidate
My dissertation examines transnational community of mountaineers in the twentieth century. Focusing on East-West contacts, my aim is to understand the historical origins of a globalizing community from the perspective of private actors. I explore how mountaineers, organized in alpine clubs around the world, shared material objects, abstract knowledge, and people in a way that created “exchange cultures” transcending national, linguistic, and ideological borders.
The Triglav National Park. From Imperial Borderlands to Slovenian Ethnoscape, in: Civilizing Nature. Towards a Global History of National Parks, hrsg. von S.B. Gissibl, S. Höhler and P. Kupper, New York 2012. (mit B. Hansen) Modals in Contemporary Slovene, in: Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch 52 (2006), S. 165-177.
Alpingeschichte