Ana Svetel

Ana Svetel is a researcher at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts and at the Institute for Innovation and Development of the University of Ljubljana. She completed her PhD, titled "Weather, Time, Light and Darkness in Social Dimensions of Icelandic Landscape," in 2023. Her research interests include anthropological studies on landscape, environment, perception, remoteness, seasonality, weather, luminosity, and naming. She conducted ethnographic fieldwork...See more

Ana Svetel is a researcher at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts and at the Institute for Innovation and Development of the University of Ljubljana. She completed her PhD, titled "Weather, Time, Light and Darkness in Social Dimensions of Icelandic Landscape," in 2023. Her research interests include anthropological studies on landscape, environment, perception, remoteness, seasonality, weather, luminosity, and naming. She conducted ethnographic fieldwork in northeastern Iceland and Slovenian Alps. As an assistant, she teaches practical classes in various anthropological courses at both the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. She is a co-chair of the Young Scholars Working Group in the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Slovene Ethnological Society Library series, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Svetovi / Worlds. In 2022, Svetel was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award for outstanding early-career researchers by the OnSustainability Research Network. She is also a published poetry and short-prose author. See less