The first women ethnologists in the education

Abstract

The first ethnologists in Serbia appeared in the last decade of the 19th century. The Department of Ethnology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade was founded in 1906. The first woman with a degree in ethnology in the period before the Second World War was Milena Lapcevic. After the Second World War, enrolment of women in ethnology department at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade increased. In the 1950s, women graduate ethnologists get the opportunity to work as lecturers. Until the 1970s professors at the Department of Ethnology were mostly men. However, since then, women have taken over the primacy at the department. Hence, the inclusion of women in teaching expands research topics. This paper gives an overview from the beginnings of the work of women ethnologists in education as well as their research areas.