1992: PhD in History (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts)
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of History
2002–: Full Professor of Contemporary Slovenian and General History
Visiting professor
2001: Comenius University in Bratislava
1996: University Vytautas Magnus in Kaunas
Visiting lectures
2017: Ghent University
2017: Free University of Brussels
2012: Charles University in Prague
2009: University of Graz
2004: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2002: University of Neuchâtel
2000: Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (University of Vienna)
1999: Institute of National History of University in Skopje
Project head
2017–: member of the SRA research project Make This Land German… Italian… Hungarian… Croatian… Again! Borders of Occupational Zones in Slovenia during the Second World War.
Research projects
2019–2021: Legacy of Yugoslavia and the future of the Region
2017–: član ARRS raziskovalnega projekta Begunci – nikoli dokončana zgodba
2014–2017: član ARRS raziskovalnega projekta Slovenski diplomati in zunanjepolitični vidiki osamosvajanja Republike Slovenije, 1980–1992
2010– : član ARRS programske skupine Slovenska zgodovina (Oddelek za zgodovino Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani)
2009–2012: član ARRS raziskovalnega projekta Manevrska struktura Narodne zaščite v organih za notranje zadeve leta 1990
1996–2000: member of the SRA research project Arhivistična zgodovina
1997–1999: member of the SRA research project Slovenian History
1996–1998: member of the SRA research project Nemci na Slovenskem 1941–1955
2010–: member of the SRA programme group Slovenian History (Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)
Leadership of a bilateral project:
1998–1999: Slovenci in Makedonci v Jugoslaviji
Leading functions:
2009–: head of the SRA research group Slovenian History (Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)
Member of the senate of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
1999–2001: representative of the Department of History, Faculty of Arts
Membership in rank groups
2017–: DMMK Association Forum: Forum for the International and Interdisciplinary Research Group, The Double Monarchy and the Middle Kingdom
2002–: Mauthausen Survivors Research Project (Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Wien
1999–: member of Bureau of the International Committee for the History of the Second World War
1999–: member of the Joint History Project (Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in South East Europe)
Other roles in the field of expertise
President of the Matura Commission
2003–2004: Head of the Slovene part of the Slovene-Austrian Historical Commission
2000–: membership in the editorial board of the Historical Review: A Journal of the Historical Association of Slovenia 1996–1998: Chairman of the Commission for the Reform of Curricula for History
1996–1998: member of the National Curriculum Council
1985–: member of the editorial board of Borec: a journal for history, literature and anthropology
Scholarships
2016: recipient of the Klio Award: Award of the Historical Association of Slovenia for research work in historiography for his volume S puško in knjigo: narodnoosvobodilni boj slovenskega naroda 1941–1945
1997: Tempus scholarship at the Institut d'histoire du temps present, Paris
1996: Institute for East and Southeast European Studies scholarship, Vienna
1995: scholarship of the French government at the Centre International d'Erudes Pédagogiques de Sévres, Paris
1994: Institute for East and Southeast European Studies scholarship, Vienna
1992: scholarship of the government of the USA at UCLA, Los Angeles
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
The position of Slovenes in various state formations; Central and South-Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia; democracy, parliamentarism and civil society; national issues, transnational relations, diplomacy; teaching history and methodological problems of historiography.
Repe, Božo. 2015. Milan Kučan, prvi predsednik. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba.
Repe, Božo. 2015. S puško in knjigo: narodnoosvobodilni boj slovenskega naroda 1941–1945. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba.
Repe, Božo. 2002. Jutri je nov dan: Slovenci in razpad Jugoslavije. Ljubljana: Modrijan.
Repe, Božo. 1992. »Liberalizem« v Sloveniji. Ljubljana: RO ZZB NOV Slovenije.
Repe, Božo. 1990. Obračun s Perspektivami. Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicistično središče