Kenya
Mount Kenya University
A long-term academic partnership built on academic mobility, research cooperation and continuing scholarly exchange between institutions and colleagues.
Research
Research that connects knowledge, people and institutions across borders.
“My research follows people, memory and heritage across cultures — and is shaped by long-term collaboration with colleagues and institutions abroad.”
Research focus
Ethnological research
Interdisciplinary ethnological approaches combining field research, cultural analysis and historical perspectives.
Slovak diaspora and migration
Research on Slovak communities abroad, migration experiences, identity formation and cultural continuity across generations.
Cultural heritage and identity
Exploring how traditions, memories and cultural practices shape individual and collective identities.
Traditional communities
Research focused on communities, local cultures and the preservation of intangible cultural heritage.
International research collaboration
Scholarship is a conversation held across borders.
Long-term cooperation with universities, research networks and cultural institutions abroad — through joint research, teaching and academic mobility.
Tanzania
University of Dar es Salaam
Academic collaboration connecting institutional partnership with doctoral education and mentoring. Three PhD candidates from the University of Dar es Salaam were offered the opportunity to pursue full-time doctoral studies in Slovakia, creating a foundation for continued research collaboration, academic mobility and long-term scholarly exchange.
Kenya
GEP — Gender Equality Project
International capacity-building collaboration bringing academic partners together through joint research, knowledge exchange and mobility, with Taita Taveta University and Strathmore University.
Institutional partnership · United States
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Cedar Rapids, Iowa · United States
An institutional partnership connecting academic research, cultural heritage and Slovak diaspora communities in the United States.
Formalised through a Memorandum of Cooperation, the partnership has already supported the presentation of Slovak Epic in Cedar Rapids and provides a framework for further joint activities, including research in the museum’s archival and library collections, cultural heritage initiatives and future collaborative projects.
Research · Cultural Heritage · Diaspora · Archives & Collections
International collaboration in practice
Research partnerships grow through people — through shared projects, academic mobility, exchange of expertise and relationships built across institutions and countries.
Selected publications
Research in print. Ideas in circulation.
Selected publications reflecting long-term research in cultural heritage, mobility, migration, identity and traditional culture.
Featured publication
Tatranskí nosiči / Tatras Porters
Katarína Slobodová Nováková
Potulky po Tatrách, 2015
“A bilingual publication exploring the distinctive tradition of mountain porters in the High Tatras and the cultural heritage surrounding one of the region’s most remarkable forms of human-powered transport.”
View book →Selected publications
From Disappearing Transport to Revived Movement: Mobilities as Cultural Heritage
Journal of Ethnography and Folklore · 2026 · 1–2 · pp. 202–220 · DOI ↗Read article →
2026Culture–Religion—Ethnicity (Alliance of Identities in the Environment of Foreign Slovak Communities)
Religions · 2021 · 12(10) · 883 · DOI ↗Read article →
2021Strava ako etnoidentifikačný faktor zahraničných Slovákov na príklade Slovákov v Kanade
Slavica Slovaca · 2023 · 58(3) · pp. 569–577 · DOI ↗Read article →
2023Rozšírenie kultu sv. Vincenta na Slovensku a v Rakúsku ako výsledok migrácií alpských drevorubačov v priebehu 18. storočia
The Dissemination of the Cult of Saint Vincent in Slovakia and Austria as a Result of 18th Century Migration of Alpine Woodcutters
2020 · DOI ↗Read article →
2020Human-powered Transport in Slovakia until the Second Half of the 20th Century: Selected Questions
Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne · 2021 · 21(2) · pp. 1–20 · DOI ↗
2021Kulinárna kultúra regiónov Slovenska
Scientific monograph · 2012
2012
Research in action
Individual projects, presented in depth.
Field research, diaspora studies and heritage projects — each with its own context, methods and outcomes.
Collaboration
Open to research collaboration.
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