Nataša Gregorič Bon is a social anthropologist with a long standing research in Albania. Her interests include spatial anthropology, movements, mobility and migrations, border dynamics, anthropology of water and environmental anthropology. She is the author of the monograph Spaces of Discordance (ZRC Publishing House, 2008), translated into Albanian and published by Morava Publishing House in 2015. She is also co-author of the monograph (Non)movement and Place-Making (ZRC Publishing House, 2013) and co-editor of the volumes Remitting, Restoring and Building Contemporary Albania (Palgrave MacMillan/Springer Books, 2021) and Moving Places (Berghahn Books, 2016). For the latter, she and co-editor Jaka Repič received the Slovenian Research Agency's award Excellent in Science. She has been a book review editor for Anthropological Notebooks since 2008 and co-editor of the Space, Place, Time at the ZRC Publishing House since 2013. She was Departmental Visitor at the University of Canberra (Australia), Visiting Fellow at SSEES, UCL (UK) and Centre of South Eastern and European Studies (CSEES), University of Graz (Austria) and Visiting Lecturer at Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki (Finland).
Teaching and courses
"Space and Movement: Towards Anthropology of Locations and Migrations" doctoral study in Anthropology at the the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU (Ljubljana, Slovenia).
Supervision to PhD student
Nastja Slavec (Postgraduate School, ZRC SAZU) »Dancing as an Euskaldun: experiences and subjectivities of Basque speakers and dancers«.
Co-supervision to MA Students
Elizabeta Vršnik (University of Ljubljana), »Trasmission of Knowledge on the Grohot Alpine Pasture«.
Pasqualina Iovino (University of Bologna), »Healthcare Along the Balkan Route: A Study of Medical Provision Inside Migrant Camps from Corinth to Bihać« (March 2023).
Simona Kuntarič Zupanc (University of Ljubljana), »Družbeni pomen vode : podzemni in nadzemni vodni (iz)viri, poti ter njihove infrastrukture v vasi Ašbarú, Maroko« (August 2022).
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, 2022. Restoring pasts and enriching futures in Albania. Anthropological quarterly, 95(4): 731–760.
- –––––, 2022. Changing environments: experiences and knowledges. Anthropological notebooks, 28(3): 1–10.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša – Liza STANČIČ – Urša KANJIR, 2022. Vjosa riverine environments: approaching dynamic continuity. Anthropological notebooks, 28(3):39–73.
- MUSARAJ, Smoki – Nataša GREGORIČ BON, 2021. Introduction: remitting, restoring, and building contemporary Albania. In: GREGORIČ BON, Nataša and MUSARAJ, Smoki (eds.). Remitting, restoring and building contemporary Albania. Chambridge: Palgrave Macmillan, str. 1–24.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, 2021. Kuçedra's waterways: restoring authority and building vitality. In: GREGORIČ BON, Nataša and MUSARAJ, Smoki (eds.). Remitting, restoring and building contemporary Albania. Chambridge: Palgrave Macmillan, str. 131–162.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, 2020. Poti Kuçedre: pomeni vode in naplavljanje avtoritete v današnji Albaniji. Traditiones, 49 (3): 135-161. ISSN 0352-0447.
- –––––, 2019. Neither the Balkans nor Europe: the 'where' and 'when' in present-day Albania. V: Montgomery, David W. (ed.). Everyday life in the Balkans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 201-210.
- –––––, 2018. Poskusi tlakovanja prihodnosti: preoblikovanje mišljenjskih matric v praksah družbeno odgovornega podjetništva v Albaniji. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva, 58 (3/4): 25-38.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, JOSIPOVIČ Damir, KANJIR Urša. 2018. Linking geomorphological and demographic movements: The case of Southern Albania. Applied Geography, 100: 55-67.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, 2017. Movement matters: The Case of Southern Albania. In: de Rapper, Gilles (ed.). Albanie: Renaissance d´ unediscipline, EthnologieFrançaise, 47 (2): 301-308.
- –––––, 2017. Silenced border crossings and gendered material flows in Southern Albania. In: Donnan, Hastings, Hurd, Madeleine, Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin (eds.). Migrating borders and moving times: temporality and the crossing of borders in Europe, (Rethinking borders). Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 140-156.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, REPIČ, Jaka, 2016. Introduction. In: Gregorič Bon, Nataša, Repič, Jaka (eds.). Moving places: Relations, return, and belonging, (EASA Series, 29). New York, Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 1-20.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, 2016. Rooting routes: (Non-) movements in southern Albania. In: Gregorič Bon, Nataša, Repič, Jaka (eds.). Moving places: Relations, return, and belonging, (EASA Series, 29). New York, Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 63-84.
- –––––, 2015. Hapësira mospërputhjesh: etnografi hapësire dhe vendi në fshatin Dhërmi/Drimades, Shqipëria e Jugut.: Tiranë: Morava.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, Jaka REPIČ in Alenka JANKO SPREIZER, 2013. (Ne)gibanje in vzpostavljanje kraja (Zbirka Prostor, kraj, čas). Ljubljana: Založba ZRC.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, 2014. Secular journeys, sacred places: Pilgrimage and home-making in the Himarë/Himara of Southern Albania area. In: Eade, John, Mario Katić (eds.). Pilgrimage, Politics and Place-Making in Eastern Europe: Crossing the Borders. Surrey: Asgate.
- –––––, 2010, Migrant routes and local roots: negotiating property in Dhërmi/Drimades of Southern Albania. In: Bönisch-Brednich, Brigitte, Catherine Trundle (eds.). Local lives: Migration and the politics of place, (Studies in migration and diaspora). Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 17-30.
- –––––, 2008a, Prostori neskladij: Etnografija prostora in kraja v vasi Dhërmi/Drimades, Južna Albanija. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC.
- –––––, 2008b, Storytelling as a spatial practice in Dhërmi/Drimades of Southern Albania. Anthropological Notebooks. 14 (2): 7-29.
- –––––, 2008c, "Where are we? Europe or Albania": regionalism as seen by the local people of Dhërmi/Drimades in southern Albania. Dve domovini/Two Homelands, 27: 83-106.
- –––––, 2008d, Negotiating Rubbish in Dhërmi/Drimades of Southern Albania. Tourism, Culture and Communication. 8 (2): 123-134.
Anthropological and Spatial Studies (research programme • January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2027)
Seizing the Future: A Comparative Anthropological Study of Expectations of the Future in Southeast Europe (fundamental research project • January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2018)
Ethnographies of Land and Water Routes: A Comparative Approach to (Im)mobility (research project • July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2017)
Experiencing water environments and environmental changes: An anthropological study of water in Albania, Serbia and Slovenia (research project • July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2022)
BA of Culturology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, 2001
MA, Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities, 2004
PhD, University of Nova Gorica, 2008