Markéta Slavková, Ph.D., specializes in sociocultural anthropology, with a focus on topics of food, war, nationalism, transnationalism, and identity. Her research mostly encompasses everyday eating practices in the context of social change (namely war) and also the historical development of food customs and specific dishes. She completed her doctoral studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. During her PhD studies, she carried out long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As part of her postdoctoral training, she was employed at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (2016-2018) and subsequently at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2019-2020). After that, she worked as a Project Coordinator of a Regional Security Program for Western Balkans at Prague Security Studies Institute on the project titled: “The Western Balkans at the Crossroads: Democratic Backsliding and External Actors’ Influence” (2022-2023). Currently, she works as a lecturer in the fields of food anthropology and Balkan studies.
Markéta Slavková, Ph.D., specijalizovala se za sociokulturnu antropologiju, s fokusom na teme hrane, rata, nacionalizma, transnacionalizma i identiteta. Njeno istraživanje uglavnom obuhvata svakodnevne prehrambene prakse u kontekstu društvenih promjena (posebno rata), kao i istorijski razvoj prehrambenih običaja i specifičnih jela. Doktorske studije završila je na Karlovom univerzitetu u Pragu, Češka Republika. Tokom doktorskih studija sprovela je dugoročno etnografsko terensko istraživanje u Srebrenici, Bosna i Hercegovina. U okviru postdoktorskog usavršavanja bila je zaposlena na Univerzitetu Komenskog u Bratislavi, Slovačka (2016–2018), a zatim u Institutu za etnologiju Češke akademije nauka (2019–2020). Nakon toga je radila kao projektna koordinatorka Programa za regionalnu bezbjednost Zapadnog Balkana u Institutu za bezbjednosne studije u Pragu na projektu pod nazivom: „Zapadni Balkan na raskršću: Demokratsko nazadovanje i uticaj spoljašnjih aktera“ (2022–2023). Trenutno radi kao predavačica u oblastima antropologije prehrane i balkanskih studija.
