Associate Professor
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb
Address: Ul. Ivana Lučića 3 10000 Zagreb, CROATIA
Email: pkelemen@ffzg.unizg.hr

Petra Kelemen is an associate professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She received her PhD at the same Faculty in 2012. She has collaborated on around twenty national and international research projects. She is currently participating in the project “The Transformation of the Postindustrial City: Space, Community, and Work” (2023–2027, HRZZ-IP-2022-10-2473, https://postcity.ffzg.unizg.hr/) and in the project “Postscapes – Time, Space and Communities” (2025–2029, NPOO 581-990-1039). She has co-authored a book in Croatian, The Town as It Should Be. Ethnological and Cultural Anthropological Reflections on Festivals (with Nevena Škrbić Alempijević, 2012) and a scientific and popular publication The City and International Migrants (with Jasna Čapo, 2019).

She has also published around thirty scientific and professional papers in scientific journals and edited volumes. She has received several awards from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (2005, 2013, and 2015) and the Croatian Ethnological Society (2015, 2019 and 2020). Her research interests and teaching focus on: cultural policies, heritage-making, intangible cultural heritage, festivals and other public events, and the anthropology of tourism.

Complete bibliography: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/28495