Project Coordinator

Viktor Trajanovski, Doctor of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences

trajanovskiv@yahoo.com

Working as an assistant at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences - Skopje

He has been the Secretary of the Center for Ethnological Research and Applied Anthropology (CEIPA) since its establishment in June 2016. Current President of the Macedonian Student Ethnological Society Skopje. He was a project coordinator of several projects within CEIPA and MESD, and took part in several projects funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia, the city of Skopje, the municipality of Ohrid and others.

Books published:

• 2018 - "Dervish Order of Halveti-Hayati in Ohrid", Center for Ethnological Research and Applied Anthropology, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, UKIM, Skopje.
• 2019 - "Ethnological and anthropological research of the dervish order Bektashi from the village Kanatlarci, Prilep, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, PMF, UKIM, Skopje.

Assistant Coordinator

Elizabeta Pavkovic, Master of Ethnology

betipavko@yahoo.com

Working as a library consultant at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences - Skopje.

Employed at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, PMF - Skopje,.
Member of the Center for Ethnological Research and Applied Anthropology (CEIPA) since its establishment in June 2016.
As a member of CEIPA, she participated in the "Audio Library - EthnoAntropo Zum" project, magazine of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, UKIM, Skopje, financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia within the annual competition for funding projects from national interest in culture in the field of protection of real estate, tangible and intangible cultural heritage for 2019.

Articles and books published:

• "A conversation with the Professor Aneta Svetieva. "Images from the childhood" in the collection "On ethnology ... Countless threshold we have passed... for Aneta Svetieva", Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, PMF, Skopje, 2014, p. 15-41.
• "White embroidery in Valandovo" in the Collecting Ethnology no. 4, Museum of Macedonia, Skopje, 2011, p. 43-52.
• "Ethnic and national identity by choice", in EthnoAntropoZum no. 5 - Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Skopje, 2005, p. 114-139.
• "The traditional way of making silk in Valandovo" in Ethnologist 11, Macedonian Ethnological Society, Skopje, 2005, p. 170-186
• "Funeral Customs in Poreche" - in the Collection "70 years of research by Jozef Obremski in Poreche, Republic of Macedonia", Institute of Old Slavonic Culture, Prilep, p. 427-432.
• Publication "Family album: narratives, memories and identity of the Mijaks from the Republic of Macedonia", Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, PMF, Skopje, 2014.

Fields of interest: folk textile creations, identity, ethnological photography

Web administrator

Boris Mantov, BS in computer engineering

boris@pmf.ukim.mk

Employee of the Faculty of Natural Sciences - Skopje, as head of the department for ICT.

Researcher

Vasko Gichevski, Student at the Institute of History, Faculty of Philosophy, UKIM

vasko.gicevski@gmail.com

Main areas of interest: general and social history of the Ottoman Empire / Ottoman Macedonia.

Articles and books published:

• The leasehold of taxes in the Ottoman Empire AXIOS vol.1. 2016, 157-165.
• Taxation in the Ottoman Empire, Collection of the Pelagonija Cultural-Scientific Meetings, No. 13. 2017, 221-228.
• Vasko Gichevski, Dr. Roberto Trajkovski, The structure and organization of the German units within the Group of armies Schulz (summer of 1917) Collection of the Pelagonija Cultural Scientific Meetings No. 13. Novaci.2017, 209-220.
• Villages with special duties and their position in the tax administration of the Ottoman Empire. AXIOS vol.2. 2017, 113-122.
• Analysis of several aspects of the individual fiscal census defter in Bitola Nahia 1467-1468. Collection of  the NI Institute and The Museum of Bitola. No.20, p. 30-37.
• The Ottoman atrocities on the territory of the Bitola province in the period 1903-1908 - an overview of the Austro-Hungarian diplomatic reports. Collection of the Second Student Conference on History, Archeology and Classical Studies on "Macedonia and the Balkan Countries from a Historical, Archaeological and Linguistic Perspective" p. 77-89.
• The Millet system, Ottomanism and the contemporary national identity crisis in the Balkans. AXIOS vol.3. 2018, 106-123.
• Mutual conflicts between the Christian population and the conflicts between the Christian and the Muslim population in the Bitola province 1905-1908, Collection of the Pelagonija Cultural Scientific Meetings No. 14, 2018, 242-247.
• Before the Holocaust - The Roma population in Ottoman Macedonia 1890-1912, Collecctions of the First Conference on Remembrance, Responsibility and Recognition of the Roma Victims of the Holocaust. Victims of the Holocaust in North Macedonia, 2019, 50-59.

Researcher

Bozidar Maslinko, Student at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, within the Faculty of Natural Sciences, UKIM

maslinkob@gmail.com

Creation of electronic map/platform

Stanislava Trajanovska, BS in ethnology and anthropology

e-mail: stasha_mk@hotmail.com

Student of the second cycle of studies (master's degree) at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, UKIM.

English translation

Hristina Nina Mircevska, interpreter and translator

mirchevska.n@gmail.com

Hristina Nina Mirchevska studied at the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski". She currently works in the non-governmental civil society sector. As a lover of ethnology and anthropology, she was involved in the "The Ethnologist as a Writer: The Writer as an Ethnologist" project.

Albanian translation

Jehona Ayradini

jehonaart@hotmail.com

She holds a BA in arts, and works as a teacher of fine arts at the primary school "Lirija" in Skopje and ASUC "Boro Petrushevski" in Skopje. Student of the second cycle of studies (master's degree) at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology.

Turkish translation

Muarem Jusufoski

Jusufovski graduated from the Faculty of Philology - Turkish Language and Literature Department at the University "St. Cyril and Methodius University” in Skopje. As a professor of Turkish language he worked in the primary school "Cyril and Methodius" in the village Kanatlarci, from 1973 and for the last few months before retirement he worked as a principal at the same school.