Tanja Kocković Zaborski, PhD, Museum Advisor

Tanja Kocković Zaborski graduated in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2000. In 2011 she received her master’s degree in ethnology and cultural anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, and her PhD in 2018 at the University of Zadar, Department of Ethnology and Anthropology. From 2001 to 2019, she worked as a Curator at the Ethnographic Museum of Istria in Pazin. From 2009 to 2014, she worked as an external associate – assistant at the elective courses Museology, Museum Collections and Protection and Tourist Attractions within the Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Study Programs of Culture and Tourism, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. Since 2019, she has been working at the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb as the Head of the Collection of Traditional Costumes of Coastal Croatia, the Collection of Weaving and Embroidery, and the Collection of Traditional Weapons.

She is a member of SIEF (Société Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore) and vice-president of the SIEF Food Research Working Group, a member of the Croatian Ethnological Society, and a member of the Board of Directors of the same society.

Her field of interest in ethnology is the anthropology of nutrition and everyday life.

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