Bozidar Jezernik (1951) is Professor Emeritus of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana. He served as Head of the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and later as Dean of the Faculty of Arts. His research focuses on the Balkans, collective memory, cultural heritage, and the anthropology of war and violence. He has published widely on Italian, German, and Yugoslav concentration camps, Balkan travel writing, and history of Yugoslavia. His books, including Wild Europe (Saqi 2004), have been translated into numerous languages, while Coffee: A Magical Brew (Modrijan 2013) received the Gourmand World Cookbook Award.