Sanja Potkonjak holds the position of associate professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She graduated from the Ethnology and Archaeology departments at the same Faculty and obtained her MA in Gender Studies from Central European University, Budapest, in 2002. She was awarded PhD in Ethnology and Anthropology by the University of Zagreb in 2010. As a researcher, she has participated in around twenty national, bilateral, and international scientific projects with a focus on postsocialism, work cultures, postindustrial transformation, development and environmental injustice, and gender studies. She has co/authored three books in Croatian: Fieldwork for Apprentice Ethnographers (2014), Thinking Ethnographically. Qualitative Approaches and Methods in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (with Nevena Škrbić Alempijević and Tihana Rubić, 2016), and Where does the Factory Live? Ethnography of Postindustrial City (with Tea Škokić, 2022), for which she obtained the Croatian Ethnological Society Annual Award in 2022. She engaged in academic training at CEU, Budapest (the Curriculum Resource Center scholarship), and at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2016, she has been a member of the academic board that organizes the international PhD programme Transformations in European Societies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich. She has been employed at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology since 2003. There, she teaches qualitative methodology, research ethics, and experimental ethnographic writing. Her ethnographic research deals with the concepts of transformation and postindustrial capitalism, including their destructive and empowering effects.
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