Rory Archer

Rory Archer is a social historian currently working at the History Department of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His research is focused on labor history, gender history, socialism and migration. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Graz, Austria (2015). Recent publications include “Modes of Masculinities among the Yugoslav Workforce in Postcolonial Zambia”, Slavic Review 84, 2 (forthcoming in Fall 2025).

He recently completed the research project ‘To the Northwest! Intra Yugoslav Albanian migration (1953–1989)’ supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). In addition, he works on a project at the University of Vienna investigating the operation of Yugoslav companies in postcolonial Zambia.