e-mail: mojca@ief.hr
Mojca Piškor (Zagreb, 1976) earned her degree (2001) and master’s degree (2005) in Musicology from the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb. In 2010, she obtained her PhD in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, with a dissertation titled Politics and Poetics of the Spaces of Music: Ethnomusicological and Anthropological Perspectives (supervised by Dr. Ines Prica).
From 2001 to 2013, she was employed at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research. Between 2011 and 2025, she lectured in ethnomusicology at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, first as an external associate and later (2013–2025) as Assistant Professor at the Department of Musicology. Since 2025, she has been a Research Associate at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research.
Her research interests include topics related to the nexus of music, sound, and politics (gender, race, migration). In recent years, her research has focused on the acoustemological dimensions of contemporary irregularized migration on the European periphery, the use of music as a means of torture in political and concentration camps (Goli Otok, Sv. Grgur, Jasenovac), and the theme of music and/as labor.
She has participated in national and international research projects Music, Dance and Community: Central and Marginal Practices (MZOS, 2002–2006), Post-Socialism and the Cultural Subject: Hybrid Practices of Cultural Mediation (MZOS, 2007–2013), Auditory Places of Strangeness (2012–2013), Strengthening Music in Society – SMS (Creative Europe, 2017–2021), Musicological Contents as a Part of Specialised Education in the Arts and the Challenges They Face (SuZG, 2020), Stakeholder Assembly on Power Relations in Higher Music Education – PRiHME (ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnerships, 2020–2024), Surviving vs. Living from Music: Young Professional Women Musicians and the Challenges of the Contemporary Labor Market – FEMLAB (SuZG, 2022; 2023), and The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery of the EU: From Ethnography to Keywords– ERIM (HRZZ, 2020–2024). She is currently a collaborator on the project Music and Dance Traditions – TRAPLEGLA (NextGenerationEU, 2024–).
For the project of experimental workshops and concert programs of traditional music Harmony of Dissonance: Traces of Traditional Singing, she received (together with Joško Ćaleta) the “Milovan Gavazzi” Annual Award of the Croatian Ethnological Society in the category of cultural heritage preservation (2016). For the same project, she received (with Joško Ćaleta, Saša Nestorović, and Zoran Ščekić) the “Franjo Ksaver Kuhač” Award of the Croatian Composers’ Society (2017).
She is a member of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM), and the Croatian Ethnological Society (HED).