Research fields:

• Contemporary history
• History of socialist Yugoslavia and the Cold War
• History textbooks

Biography:

Mateja Režek graduated from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, in 1994 and became a young researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. She received her PhD from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, in 2000 with a dissertation entitled “Political Changes in Slovenia/Yugoslavia in the Decade following the Cominform Conflict, 1948–1958.”

Since 2012 she has been employed as a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Historical Studies of the Science and Research Centre Koper. Before that she worked as a research associate at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. In addition to her research, she has also been engaged in pedagogical work. Between 2007 and 2016, she was employed as an assistant professor at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, where she lectured in World History of the 20th Century and History of the Balkans. In addition, she is a member of the National Commission for the matriculation examination in History.

Her bibliography comprises a total of more than 170 items, of which more than 50 scientific articles, two scientific monographs, two high school textbooks of contemporary history and many other contributions.