Research Associate

Dr. Željko Oset is a historian based in Slovenia. He was a junior fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana from 2007 to 2012 and served as an assistant professor at the University of Nova Gorica between 2014 and 2021. From 2021 to 2023, he was the director of the Museum of Slovenian Independence. Since March 2023, he has been a research associate with the ERC project SOVEREIGNTY.
In the spring semester of 2024/2025, he was a Keston Fellow at Baylor University (USA), and in the summer of 2025, he will be a visiting researcher at the Study Centre for National Reconciliation (SCNR) in Ljubljana.
Dr. Oset holds a PhD from the University of Ljubljana.
He has held visiting research positions at several institutions, including the Institute of Recent History of Serbia (2010), the Croatian Institute of History (2016, 2018), the Polish Academy of Sciences (2016), The Ohio State University (2016), Central European University (2016), the Czech Academy of Sciences (2016), the University of Graz (2017, 2020), the University of Vienna (2017), the University of Eastern Finland (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021), Moscow State University (2018), the Russian Academy of Sciences (2019, 2021), and Tel Aviv University (2019).
His research focuses on the history of Slovenian science – including institutional development, researcher mobility, postdoctoral training, and the role of women in science – as well as Slovenian-Russian cultural relations, SMERSH, and the influence of the Yugoslav secret police (UDB-a) on academia, the Catholic Church, and broader society.
His full bibliography is available at: https://bib.cobiss.net/biblioweb/biblio/si/eng/conor/121640035