Bozidar Jezernik is full professor at the University of Ljubljana. He teaches Ethnology of the Balkans, Anthropology of Globalisation and Social Memory and Cultural Heritage. He was head of Department, from 1988-1992 and 1998-2003, and dean of Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, from 2003-7.  He has been the leader of a program research group called Slovenian Identities in European and Global Contextsince 2004.