Politična participacija slovenskih etničnih skupnosti v ZDA : Študija primerov Clevelanda, Ohio, in Elyja, Minnesota

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: matjaz.klemencic11@gmail.si.

Dr. Matjaž Klemenčič is a retired full professor at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, where he taught non-European, European, economic and Slovenian history, an introduction to the study of history and the history of migration. He taught migration problems at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana and at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska. He was a scientific advisor at the Institute for Ethnic Issues in Ljubljana. He teaches US history at the American Studies doctoral program at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana and mentors many doctoral students. He has been a mentor on eight completed doctorates. He is the author of four and co-author of eight scientific monographs and more than a hundred scientific articles in which he discusses Germanization, the history of the disintegration of the SFRY and the history of Slovenian emigration to the USA and has published them in prestigious publications in many European countries and the USA. He is Zois' laureate. As a guest lecturer, he has lectured at a number of universities in Europe, the US and Canada.

Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: milan.mr85@gmail.com.

Milan Mrđenović is a doctoral student in the American Studies program at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He is the author or co-author of five scientific articles in renowned Slovenian journals. He is about to complete his doctoral dissertation entitled American Slovenes and American-Soviet Relations from 1938 to 1945.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: tadej_re@hotmail.com.

Tadej Šeruga holds a master's degree from the Department of History and Wine at the Faculty of Arts in Maribor. He is the co-author of the scientific monograph Review of the History of the Slovene Community in Ely, Minnesota.