Petra Kelemen is an assistant professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. At the same faculty she graduated Croatian language and literature and ethnology. In 2012 she defended her doctoral thesis titled „The Festival and the Town – Cultural Policies, Performances and Identities. A Case Study of the Špancirfest, Varaždin“. She is currently enrolled in the Postgraduate Doctoral Study of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. Under the supervision of Prof Jasna Čapo Žmegač she works on her doctoral thesis dedicated to contemporary migrations. She teaches courses Anthropology of Tourism and Anthropology of Festivals. She is a co-author of the book „Grad kakav bi trebao biti. Etnološki i kulturnoantropološki osvrti na festivale“ / “The town as it should be. Ethnological and cultural anthropological reflections on festivals“ (2012).
