Miha Zobec is a research associate at ISIM ZRC SAZU and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska. His research interests include the relations between migration and nation-building processes in the contexts of both Yugoslavias, the study of migration and emigration policies, migration control, diasporas, and the history of the family in migration settings. He has published several scholarly articles and chapters in edited volumes on the relations between the first Yugoslavia and emigrants, as well as a monograph on translocal connections and ties maintained by correspondence, focusing on the Karst village of Pliskovica and its emigrants in Argentina. He obtained grants for conducting research at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (2019) and at the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at Ohio State University (September 2024). 

Employment: junior researcher and assistant/part-time researcher, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor (2011-2017), professor of Slovene, history and the humanities at the Slovene-language grammar schools in Gorizia and Trieste (2017-2019), researcher at the ISIM ZRC SAZU (2019-), assistant professor University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities (2021-).

Institutional responsibilities: member of the advisory board of the book series Migrations in History, published by De Gruyter. In 2020 member of the Office for Slovenians Abroad Awards Committee.

Fields of interest: migration history, state-diaspora relations, surveillance over migrants, the issue of ethnic/national minorities and borderlands, oral history, identity processes, migrants' communications with the emphasis on emigrant correspondence.