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Department of History
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Peter Mikša
EDUCATION
- 2013: PhD in History (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts)
- 2007: BA in History (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts)
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of History
- 2023–: Associate Professor for General History and Slovenian Contemporary History
- 2018–2023: Assistant Professor for General History and Slovenian Contemporary History
- 2011–2018: Teaching Assistant for General History and Slovenian Contemporary History
Research and professional work
- 2026–2027: Principal Investigator of the science communication project Mountains, Culture and the Public: From Triglav to the Vardar – Communicating Science about Mountain Landscapes (Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency – ARIS, Public Call for the Co-financing of Science Communication and Popularisation Activities)
- 2025–: Principal Investigator (PI) of the basic research project Struggle for the Mountains: The Slovenian National Appropriation of the Alps (19th–21st Century), ARIS
- 2024–2025: Principal Investigator (PI) of the bilateral project SLO-BiH: Collective Memory and Revisionism – A Comparison of WWII Monuments in the Capitals of Former Yugoslav Republics (Ljubljana and Sarajevo), ARIS
- 2022–2024: Principal Investigator (PI) of the Target Research Programme Supplementing the Evidence of Hidden WWII Graves and the Registry of War Graves with Data on Hidden Graves in Underground Caves, ARIS
- 2023–: Member of the Infrastructure Programme Network of Research Infrastructure Centres of the University of Ljubljana, MRIC UL
- 2021–2024: Member of the research project The Rapallo Border: A Century of Existence and a Century of Heritage, ARIS
- 2018–2021: Principal Investigator (PI) of the bilateral project SLO-MNE: Mountains in the Process of Identity Formation in Slovenia and Montenegro, ARIS
- 2017–2020: member of the ARIS research project Make This land German… Italian… Hungarian… Croatian… Again! Borders of Occupational Zones in Slovenia during the Second World War.
- 2015–: member of the ARIS programme Slovenian History
- 2013–2016: member of the ARIS research project Multikulturna prijateljstva in narodne vezi na presečiščih slovenskega, italijanskega in nemškega sveta (1848–1941)
- 2013–2014: member of the ARIS research project Women and the First World War
- 2011–2014: member of the ARIS research project Man, Nature and Environment between the Northern Adriatic and the Eastern Alps in the Premodern Times
- 2010–2011: member of the ARIS research project Umeščenost mestnih elit na Slovenskem v regionalne družbene in gospodarske tokove v času od 13. do 16. stoletja
- 2010–2011: member of research project Towards a "Topography" of Tolerance and Equal Respect. A comparative study of policies for the distribution of public spaces in culturally diverse societies EU (E7)
- 2009–2012: member of the ARIS research project Pravna in politična zgodovina žensk na Slovenskem
- 2018–: editor-in-chief of the journal Retrospektive
- 2016–: assistant editor at Novi Slovenski biografski leksikon
- 2015–: editor of the website www.zgodovina.si
- 2012–: member of the research group at the Alpine Association of Slovenia
- 2010–: editor of the website www.friko.si
FIELD OF RESEARCH
Contemporary Slovenian history; border studies, Rapallo border, Occupation Borders in Slovenia (1941-1945), history of sports, local history; history of tourism; research of the Alpine region.
SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS
Mikša, Peter, and Ivan Laković. 2026. “Between Heaven and Hell: Constraint, Rivalry, and the Making of Yugoslav Alpine Excellence in the Cold War.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 43 (6): 713–732.
Mikša, Peter. 2025. “Chasing the Himalayan Train: Yugoslav Mountaineering Expeditions to the Himalayas, 1975–1995.” The International Journal of the History of Sport, online first.
Mikša, Peter, and Matija Zorn. 2024. “The ‘Slovenian’ Everest 1979: A Small Nation and the Highest Mountain in the World.” In Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds, eds. Paul Gilchrist, Peter H. Hansen and Jonathan Westaway, 178–191. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Mikša, Peter, and Matija Zorn. 2021. “Boundary Stones: Standing Witnesses of World War II Borders in Present-Day Slovenia.” In Boundaries and Borders in the Post-Yugoslav Space: A European Experience, eds. Nenad Stefanov and Srđan Radović, 99–123. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
Zorn, Matija, and Peter Mikša. 2021. “Boundary Stones and Their ‘Hidden’ Legacy in Slovenia.” In Hidden Geographies, ed. Marko Krevs, 233–259. Cham: Springer Nature.
Zorn, Matija, and Peter Mikša. 2018. “The Rapallo Border between Italy and Yugoslavia after the First World War.” In Grenzen = Frontières, eds. Gunda Barth-Scalmani, Patrick Kupper and Anne-Lise Head-König, 165–181. Zürich: Chronos.
Mikša, Peter, and Matija Zorn. 2018. “Rapalska meja: Četrt stoletja obstoja in stoletje dediščine.” In Nečakov zbornik: Procesi, teme in dogodki iz 19. in 20. stoletja, eds. Kornelija Ajlec, Bojan Balkovec and Božo Repe (Historia 25), 605–641. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete.
Mikša, Peter. 2022. “The Mountains That Wrote Them: Slovenians Climbing and Writing About Eight-Thousand-Metre Peaks = Góry, które ich napisały: Słoweńcy wspinający się na i piszący o ośmiotysięcznikach.” Slavica Tergestina 28 (1): 152–174.
Mikša, Peter, and Jure Čokl. 2022. “Slovensko osvajanje osemtisočakov (1975–1995).” Zgodovinski časopis 76 (3–4): 510–532.
Mikša, Peter, and Urban Golob. 2013. Zgodovina slovenskega alpinizma. Ljubljana: Friko, Mikša in partnerji.
Mikša, Peter, and Kornelija Ajlec. 2011. Slovensko planinstvo = Slovene Mountaineering. Ljubljana: Planinska zveza Slovenije.
Vehar, Maja, and Peter Mikša. 2021. Obmejni trikotnik: okupacijske meje med Idrijo, Žirmi in Polhograjskimi Dolomiti, 1941–1945. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete.
Mikša, Peter, and Matija Zorn. 2020. Življenje ob meji: Rogaška Slatina in Obsotelje kot jugovzhodna meja nemškega rajha (1941–1945). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete.
Nećak, Dušan, Tone Smolej, Kornelija Ajlec, Peter Mikša, and Barbara Šatej. 2019. Zgodovina Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete.