Professor Svetlana Slapsak is professor in Anthropology of the Ancient Worlds and Anthropology of Gender Co-ordinator, ISH (Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis), Ljubljana Graduate School in Humanities.
Her recent awards and grants include: American PEN Award Freedom to Write 1993, CEU Prague Research Grant 1993-4, The Foundation for Hellenic Culture Corr. Member 1993, Laurie NJ Chair in Women's Studies 1994-5, Rutgers University, Helsinki Watch Helmann-Hammett Award, 2000; Helen Prize, Montreal, 2001.
Prof Slapsak has been visiting professor at EHESS, Paris, 1999. Fellow-in-Residence at NIAS, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, 1999-2000.
She was an invited researcher at Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin, 2000. Furthermore, she has been Directeur de recherche at CNRS, Paris, lab. Centre Louis Gernet-EHESS (February-August 2003).Her recent books include:

• Women's Icons of the 20th Century, 60 essays, XX vek, Beograd, 2001;
• Women's Icons of the 20th Century, 30 essays, UZP, Ljubljana, 2000;
• For the Anthropology of the Ancient Worlds, ISH, Ljubljana, 2000;
• War Discourse, Women's Discourse: Studies and Essays on Wars in Yugoslavia and Russia (in English), ISH, Ljubljana, 2000;