Background
She was born in Trieste, Italy.
She was born in Trieste, Italy.
She attended Slovene language schools in Trieste. In 1984, she graduated from history at the University of Trieste under the supervision of the renowned social anthropologist and feminist historian Luisa Accati. In 1995, she obtained her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of Peter Vodopivec, with a thesis on the changing attitudes towards death in the 19th century rural peripheries of Trieste.
Together with Alenka Puhar, she is considered a pioneer in the history of family relations in the Slovene Lands. Foreign five years she worked as a high school teacher in the schools with Slovene as language of instruction, both in Trieste and Gorizia.