*1944
Academic degrees
• 1995 - Doc. – habilitation thesis"Svadba v kontexte rodinných a sociálnych vzťahov"
• 1978 - CSc. (PhD.) dissertation thesis "Rodinné zvyky a ich premeny v
• podmienkach socializmu na slovensko-poľskom pohraničí
• 1976 - PhDr. – rigorous thesis "Príspevky ku štúdiu rodinných zvykov na Slovensku"
• 1967 – graduation from the Philosophical Faculty of Comenius University Bratislava, degree in ethnography
Professional orientation
• Spiritual culture (customs and rituals) especially the customs of life cycle specializing in: weddings (changes and the present context)
• Ethnic problems (comparative study of Slovak-Polish and interethnic relations in southern Slovakia))
• Gender (gender study in family life and ritual roles
Teaching Activities
• (1991 – 2010) Department of ethnology and cultural anthropology of the Philosophical Faculty of Comenius University
• "Custom traditions“
• "Theory and methodology"
• "Symbolic and feministic anthropology"
• University lecture: "Cultural anthropology"
• Diploma thesis seminar
• Doctoral dissertation supervisor
• (1998 – 2005) also lectured at the Department of Ethnology of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cyril and Methodius in Trnava
Field research
Orava, Zamagurie, Kysuce, Gemer, Bratislava region, southern Slovakia (not Komárno)
The membership in home and foreign scientific institutions
• the member of Scientific Grant Agency – The Committee for history a society sciencee
• the member of Slovak – polish committee of humanities of the Slovak Ministry of Education
• 1987 – 1993 vice-chairman of the Slovak Ethnographic Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• member of the editorial board „Ethnologia Slovaca et Slavica“
• member of the editorial board „Ethnologia Actualis Slovaca“
Activities at the Philosophical Faculty
• 1998-2000, 2005-2008 member of the Academic Senate
Study and lecturing trips abroad
• (1984,1997,2001) Institut etnologii a antropologii kulturowej Jagelonskej univerzity, Krakow
