Sanja Đurin is senior assistant at Institute of ethnology and folklore research in Zagreb, Croatia. She obtained her B.A. in Philosophy and General Linguistics from Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, and her M.A. in imprisonment (case study: prison Lepoglava) from Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH), Slovenia. She is the winner of HESP stipend for PhD study. Her doctoral thesis (obtained at Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH), Slovenia) is analyzing the politics of sexuality in Croatia across different political regimes (1941-2000). In 1999 Sanja attended one-year gender studies at Centar za ženske studije Zagreb, and in 2001 one-year peace studies at Delavsko-punkerska Univerza Ljubljana, Slovenija.
Interested in social anthropology and cultural studies, Sanja is researching different social niches characterized by uneven power distribution and its consequences – subjugation and marginalization, i.e. discursive production of marginality. Her target are ethnical, gender and other minority items as well as subjugated identities (migrants, prisoners, waitresses, gay people). Sanja is also dedicated to migration studies – she was doing her fieldwork research in Germany and South America (Chile and Argentina).
