Ana Hofman

Ana Hofman is an ethnomusicologist and anthropologist employed at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). Her work focuses on questions of memory, affect, and activism in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, through the study of music and sound. Within a broader framework, her research considers labor, gender, class, political economy, and social movements as cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on the antifascist past. She has been a visiting researcher at universities around the world, including the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and King’s College London. In 2018, she received the Danubius Mid-Career Award, awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) in Vienna. She has published several books and scholarly works, including Novi život partizanskih pesama (“A New Life of Partisan Songs,” XX Vek, 2016). Her latest book, Socialism, Now: Singing Activism after Yugoslavia, was published this year by Oxford University Press.