Date of birth: 17 January 1977
Place of birth: Prilep, Republic of Macedonia
Education:
2015 – Ph.D. in Ethnology, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (IEA), Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius – Skopje, “Anthropology of Sexuality: Gender and Change of Biological Sex through Examples from the Roma Community in Skopje”.
2009 – MA in Ethnology, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (IEA), Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius – Skopje, “Anthropology of Male Same-Sex Sexuality in the Republic of Macedonia: Behavior and Identity”.
2002 – BA in Ethnology, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (IEA), Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius – Skopje, “Elderly Households in the Villages of Region of Poreče: The Contemporary Situation”.
Books
Monographs
2020 Anthropology of Sexuality: Gender and Change of Biological Sex in the Roma Community in Skopje. Skopje: Ines Crvenkovska Risteska.
2013 Anthropology of Male Same-Sex Sexuality in Everyday Life: Behavior and Identity.
Skopje: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
Editor
2025 Ethnographic Materials by Professor Gjorgji Zdravev, Book Three. Gjorgji Zdravev (Author), Ines Crvenkovska Risteska (Editor). Skopje: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology.
2024 Ethnographic Materials by Professor Gjorgji Zdravev, Book Two. Gjorgji Zdravev (Author), Ines Crvenkovska Risteska (Editor). Skopje: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology.
2023 Ethnographic Materials by Professor Gjorgji Zdravev, Book One. Gjorgji Zdravev (Author), Ines Crvenkovska Risteska (Editor). Skopje: CEIPA.
2022 Post-Socialist Political Graffiti in the Balkans and Central Europe. Monograph. Mitja Velikonja (Author), Ines Crvenkovska Risteska (Editor and Translator from English into Macedonian). Skopje: MSED.
2021 Shameful Stories: A Picture Book for Adults. Edited by Ines Crvenkovska Risteska.
Skopje: CEIPA.
2021 Baba Roga and Her Friends. Edited by Ines Crvenkovska Risteska. Skopje: CEIPA.
2020 People, Animals, Plants, and Objects from the Other World: An Illustrated Collection.
Edited by Ines Crvenkovska Risteska. Skopje: MSED.
2019 The Two Worlds: An Illustrated Collection. Edited by Ines Crvenkovska Risteska. Skopje: MSED.
2019 Striposcope: Comic Stories about the City of Skopje. Edited by Ines Crvenkovska Risteska.
Skopje: CEIPA.
2018 The Other World: An Illustrated Collection. Edited by Ines Crvenkovska Risteska.
Skopje: MSED.
2017 Against All Odds: Ethnology and Anthropology between Theory and Praxis.
Ljupcho S. Risteski; Ines Crvenkovska Risteska (Editors). Skopje: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
2006 A Walk through Poreče: A Tourist Guide. Group of Authors. Skopje: MSED.
2005 MI–AN Encyclopedia: General and Macedonian (Four Volumes). Co-author of 130 entries in the fields of Ethnology and Anthropology. Skopje: MI–AN.
Articles
2025 – Crvenkovska Risteska, Ines & Risteski, Ljupcho. Utilizing ArchivesSpace for Data Archiving: A Case Study of the Digital Archive for Ethnological and Anthropological Resources at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. Ethnographica et Folkloristica Carpathica, 27, 121–138.
2024 – Crvenkovska Risteska, Ines & Risteski, Ljupcho. Digital Times, Digital Archive: On the Digitized Ethnological and Anthropological Resources at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Makedonski Folklor, 85, 39–59.
2023 – Crvenkovska Risteska, Ines & Risteski, Ljupcho. The First World War Monuments and Memorial Heritage in Macedonia. In Božidar Jezernik, Vijoleta Herman Kaurić & Ljiljana Dobrovšak (Eds.), Commemorating the First World War in the Former Yugoslavia. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani & ICTM (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/9789612972370
Available at: https://ebooks.uni-lj.si/ZalozbaUL/catalog/book/504
2022 – Crvenkovska Risteska, Ines. Globalization of Sex Economies: Examples from the Roma Community in Skopje. EtnoAntropoZum, 22, 58–90. Skopje: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
2021 “Stories from the Hospital Room: The Coronavirus Pandemic through Selected Examples.” In: Everyday Life and Festivity during the Pandemic. Sofia: Erove Publishing House, pp. 186–203.
2021 “The Economy of Elderly Households in Poreče.” In: Ethnological and Cultural-Anthropological Research of Poreče. Ljupcho S. Risteski; Aneta Svetieva (Editors), pp. 233–280.
Skopje: CEIPA.
2021 “On Sex–Gender Ambiguities: The Concept of ‘Both Man and Woman’ through Examples from the Roma Community in Skopje.” In: Šutka – My Story. Viktor Trajanovski (Editor), pp. 106–126. Skopje: MSED.
2021 “The Depiction of Roma in Macedonian Ethnological and Anthropological Literature.” In EthnoAnthropoZoom, vol. 21, pp. 132–154.
2020 “Hinduism in the Republic of North Macedonia: Yoga, Gurus, and National Myths.” Cecilie Endresen; Ines Crvenkovska Risteska; Ljupcho S. Risteski. In: Handbook of Hinduism in Europe. Knut A. Jacobsen; Ferdinando Sardella (Editors). Leiden: Brill, pp. 1218–1240.
2020 “Tito Returns to Skopje: Forgotten Memories of Josip Broz.” In EthnoAnthropoZoom, vol. 20, pp. 93–129.
2019 “‘Both Man and Woman’: The Third Sex/Gender Role in the Roma Community in Skopje.”
In Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 591–605.
2018 “Economies of Sexuality: Sex/Gender Identity as Resource among Roma ‘Women’, Sex Workers in Skopje.” In EthnoAnthropoZoom, vol. 17, pp. 16–58.
2018 “It Is Time for a Baby! Motherhood and Nationalism: Examples from the Republic of Macedonia.” In EthnoAnthropoZoom, vol. 16, pp. 148–184.
2017 “Repatriation of Memory in the Collective Memories of Macedonians: Historians’ Initiative to Erect a Monument Honoring Macedonian Soldiers of the First World War.” In: Through the Past toward the Future: In Honorem Margaritae Karamihova. Veliko Tarnovo: Centre for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.
2017 “How to Survive Researching Sexuality? – Others on My Research.” In: Against All Odds: Ethnology and Anthropology between Theory and Praxis. Ljupcho S. Risteski; Ines Crvenkovska Risteska (Editors), pp. 113–129.
2015 “Creating Context: Ethnography and the Local Concept ‘Both a Man and a Woman’ in the Roma Community in Skopje.” In Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 151–163.
2015 “Theoretical Strategies in the Anthropology of Sexuality: On the Local Sex/Gender System in the Roma Community in Skopje.” In EthnoAnthropoZoom, vol. 13, pp. 10–53.
2014 “Visualizing Sex Work: The Economization of the Sexuality of ‘Woman’ among the Roma Male Community in Skopje.” In EthnoAnthropoZoom, vol. 12, pp. 132–148.
2014 “Male Same-Sex Sexuality in Cyberspace: Examples from the Republic of Macedonia.”
In: On Ethnology… We Have Crossed Countless Thresholds… In Honor of Aneta Svetieva, pp. 143–154. Skopje: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
2009 “Narratives and Self-Determination: Histories of Personal Sexuality and the Sexuality of the Other.” In Anthropology, vol. 8, pp. 121–128.
2009 “Theoretical Frameworks in the Anthropology of Male Same-Sex Sexuality.”
In Ethnologist, vols. 12–13, pp. 209–225. Skopje: Macedonian Ethnological Society.
2007 “The Status of Women in the Region of Golo Brdo, Republic of Albania.”
In: Social Behaviour and Family Strategies in the Balkans (16th–20th Centuries). Bucharest: New Europe College, pp. 447–459.
2006 “The Rural Community and Family among Macedonians in the Golo Brdo Region of the Republic of Albania during the Socialist Period.” In: Life on the Border: Golo Brdo, pp. 73–92.
Skopje: Macedonian Ethnological Society.
2005 “An Anthropological Perspective on the Formation of Macedonian National Identity during the National Revival.” In EthnoAnthropoZoom, vol. 5, pp. 72–113.
2002 “Elderly Households in the Villages of Poreče: The Contemporary Situation.” In: Seventy Years of Jozef Obrembski’s Research in Poreče, Republic of Macedonia, pp. 433–439. Prilep: Institute of Old Slavic Culture.
2002 “Women in Melnica.” In: Plet: Living Heritage. Multimedia edition. Skopje: Macedonian Student Ethnological Society.
2001 “Women in Family and Public Life: The Case of the Village of Melnica.” In: EthnoAnthropoZoom, vol. 1, pp. 240–247.
Participation in Scientific Conferences, Symposia and Professional Events
2024 – Crvenkovska Risteska, I. (2024). Digitalisation of heritage as strategy in the Republic of North Macedonia. Paper presented at the European Traditions International Symposium, organized by the Institute of Ethnology and Museology, University of Debrecen, Hungary, 21–23 November 2024.
2022 – Crvenkovska Risteska, I., & Risteski, L. (2022). Digital times, digital archive: Digitized ethnological and anthropological resources at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Balkan Folklore Tradition, Media, Digital World, Skopje, North Macedonia, 25 November 2022.
2021 – Crvenkovska Risteska, I. (2021). Participation in a focus group for the Municipality of Butel within the project Pathways to Resilience and Reintegration of Vulnerable Families in the Community, implemented by the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC) in partnership with Nexus – Civic Concept, Initiative for European Perspective, Pleiades and Horizon Civitas (27 November 2021).
2021 – Crvenkovska Risteska, I. (2021). Anthropology from a hospital room: The coronavirus pandemic through ethnographic examples. Paper presented at the International Scientific Conference Everyday Life and Festivity During the Pandemic, Sofia, Bulgaria (online event), 2 June 2021.
2020 – Crvenkovska Risteska, I. (2020). Creating cultural heritage: The wild landfill. Paper presented at the Forum Garbage and Cultural Heritage: Garbage as Cultural Heritage, 20–21 October 2020.
2019 – Crvenkovska Risteska, I. (2019). Striposcope: Comic illustrations and stories as urban folklore. Paper presented at the XX International Symposium on Balkan Folklore Folkloristics: Challenges and Perspectives, Institute of Folklore “Marko Cepenkov”, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia.
2019 – Participation in the international scientific conference “Sofia – Skopje: Cultural Models and Migrations”, organized by AES and Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria, with the paper: “The Informal Economy of the Population of Kriva Palanka at the Northeastern Border in the Early Postsocialist Period of the Republic of Macedonia”.
2019 – Participation in the conference “Ethnological and Folkloristic Aspects of Multiculturalism and Interculturalism in Macedonian Society”, organized by the Macedonian Ethnological Society, Kratovo, with the paper: “How Are Representations of Roma Constructed in Ethnological-Anthropological Scholarly Literature in Macedonian Society?”
2019 – Participation in the conference “St. Trifun and Wine – Customs, Beliefs and Rituals”, Museum of the City of Negotino and Municipality of Negotino, with the paper: “The Feast of St. Trifun at a Crossroads?” (co-authored with Dr. Ljupcho Risteski).
2018 – Participation in the international scientific conference “Sociocultural Aspects of the First World War”, Bitola, with the paper: “The First World War in Historiographical Discourse and the Media in the Republic of Macedonia”.
2017 – Participation in the XIX International Symposium on Balkan Folklore “Tradition and Modernity in the Folklore of Balkan Peoples”, Institute of Folklore “Marko Cepenkov”, Skopje, with the paper: “Time for a Baby! Motherhood and Nationalism in Examples from the Republic of Macedonia”.
2016 – Participation in the international symposium “Heritage of the First World War: Representations and Reinterpretations”, organized by the University of Ljubljana, Sarajevo, with the paper: “Monuments Dedicated to WWI in Macedonia: Between Forgetfulness and New Contextualisation”.
2015 – Participation in the international conference “Against All Odds: Ethnology and Anthropology between Theory and Praxis”, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, with the paper: “How to Survive Researching Sexuality? – The Others About My Research”.
2008 – Participation in the conference “National Traditions and European Integration”, Gyuleshnitsa, Republic of Bulgaria, with the paper: “On the Name in Macedonian Internet Forums”.
2007 – Participation in the regional symposium “Social Behavior and Family Strategies in the Balkans”, organized by the College of New Europe in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, with the paper: “The Status of Women in the Region of Golo Brdo, Republic of Albania”.
2006 – Participation in the IV Student Conference on Ethnological and Anthropological Issues “International Cooperation and Intellectual Exchange”, Struga, Republic of Macedonia, with the paper: “The Balkans in New Contexts: An Anthropological View upon the Process of Creation of Macedonian National Identity in the Revival Period”.
2006 – Participation in the Summer School of Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Balkan Folklore, Konitsa, Greece.
2004 – Participation in the Seminar on Gender Issues, organized by the Embassy of Sweden – Cooperation Office Skopje and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), trainer: Virginia Langbakk.
2004 – Participation in the Program Management Seminar, organized by the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC).
2004 – Participation in the round table “Life on the Border”, organized by the Macedonian Ethnological Society (Skopje) and the Center for Ethnic Studies (Tirana), held in Dolno Kosovrasti, Debar, with the paper: “Rural Community and Family among Macedonians in the Golo Brdo Region of the Republic of Albania during the Socialist Period”.
2003 – Participation in the training seminar “Management in Culture”, organized for the Ethnological Educational Research Center “Rastesh”, Samokov, Republic of Macedonia.
2001 – Participation in the International Scientific Meeting “70 Years of Josef Obrebski’s Research in Poreche”, Samokov, with the paper: “Elderly Households in the Villages of Poreche – Contemporary Situation”.
1999 – Participation in the Historical Anthropology Seminar “Woman in the Balkans”, organized by South-West University “St. Neofit Rilski” (Blagoevgrad) in cooperation with the University of Graz, held in Bansko, Republic of Bulgaria, with the paper: “Women in Family and Public Life – The Case of the Village of Melnitsa” (video presentation).
Projects
2025 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader & editor). Publication of the third volume of ethnographic materials by Professor Gjorgji Zdravev [Cultural heritage publication project]. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia.
2024 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader & editor). Publication of the second volume of ethnographic materials by Professor Gjorgji Zdravev [Cultural heritage publication project]. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia.
2023 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader & editor). Publication of the first volume of ethnographic materials by Professor Gjorgji Zdravev [Cultural heritage publication project]. Center for Ethnological Research and Applied Anthropology. Funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia.
2023 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader). Digitization of the collection of Professor Galaba Palikrusheva (1928–2009) [Digital cultural heritage project]. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia.
2022 – Risteska, I. C. (Participant & implementer). Ethnological and anthropological lexicon of Macedonia: Personalities and works [Research project]. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Funded by Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Project leader: Ljupcho Risteski.
2022 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader). Publication of the Macedonian translation of Mitja Velikonja’s book Postsocialist political graffiti in the Balkans and Central Europe [Cultural project]. Macedonian Student Ethnological Society. Funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia.
2022 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader). Digitization of the collection of Professor Gjorgji Zdravev (1941–2007) [Digital heritage project]. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia.
2021 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader). Cultural heritage for adults: Shameful stories — a collection of comic-illustrated erotic stories from Skopje and Macedonia [Cultural heritage project]. Center for Ethnological Research and Applied Anthropology in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. Funded by the City of Skopje.
2020 – Risteska, I. C. Anthropology of sexuality: Gender and sex reassignment within the Roma community in Skopje [Research project]. Funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia – National Interest Projects Programme.
2020 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader). Baba Roga and Friends — illustrated book and coloring book for children and youth [Cultural project]. Funded by the City of Skopje and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology.
2020 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader). People, animals, plants and objects from the other world — illustrated collection [Artistic-research project]. Macedonian Student Ethnological Society. Funded by the City of Skopje and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology.
2019 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader). Cultural heritage on stage [National cultural heritage project]. Center for Ethnological Research and Applied Anthropology & Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. Funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia.
2019 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader). Create a Stripscope! Cultural heritage of the City of Skopje through short comic stories [Cultural heritage project]. Center for Ethnological Research and Applied Anthropology with support from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. Funded by the City of Skopje.
2019 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader). The City of Skopje and comic-illustrated mythological heroes [Cultural project]. Macedonian Student Ethnological Society with support from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. Funded by the City of Skopje.
2019 – Risteska, I. C. (Research participant). Sofia – Skopje: Cultural models and migrations [International research project]. Academic Ethnological Association – Sofia University. Funded by the Culture Programme of the City of Sofia.
2018 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader). Improving elements of ethnological cultural heritage protection in the Republic of Macedonia [National heritage forum project]. Center for Ethnological Research and Applied Anthropology & Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. Funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia.
2018 – Risteska, I. C. (Project leader). Ethnological cultural heritage in the Republic of Macedonia between theory and practice [National heritage forum project]. Macedonian Student Ethnological Society & Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. Funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia.
2018 – Risteska, I. C. (Research participant). Cultural policies and cultural heritage: Memories from the socialist period in Macedonia [Research project]. Macedonian Student Ethnological Society. Project leader: Davorin Trpeski. Funded by Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
2018 – Risteska, I. C. (Research participant). Valuing diversity – respecting otherness [International project]. Implemented in Struga, Kichevo and Debar. Funded by the European Union through the IPA Civil Society and Media Programme.
2017 – Risteska, I. C. (Mentor). Nurturing Roma ethnology [Educational project]. Association of Roma Folklore Art Lovers “Romano Ilo”, Skopje.
2010 – Risteska, I. C. (Field research assistant). Economy and Ritual in Postsocialist Eurasia: New forms of capitalism? House economy, ritual activities and market practices in a Macedonian town [International research project]. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. Principal investigator for Macedonia: Miladina Monova.
2009 – Risteska, I. C. (Research contributor). Valorization study proposal for the movable cultural heritage collection “Ethnological Collection of Zlate Davitkovski”, St. John Church, Režanovce, Kumanovo. Project holder: National Institution Museum of Kumanovo.
2006–2007 – Risteska, I. C. (Assistant media researcher). Mapping and community-based study of adolescents at highest risk for HIV/AIDS/STIs in Macedonia [Research project]. UNICEF & Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. Funded by UNICEF Skopje.
2006 – Risteska, I. C. (Project participant). Living heritage in Poreče [Cultural heritage project]. Ethnological Educational Research Center “Rastesh”. Traditional food workshop within the Poreče Fair programme.
2005 – Risteska, I. C. (Assistant researcher). Youth participation in local decision-making processes [Research project].
2003–2004 – Risteska, I. C. (Assistant coordinator). Knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) survey on children’s rights [Research project]. UNICEF & Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. Funded by UNICEF Skopje.
2003–2004 – Risteska, I. C. (Researcher). Life on the border [International research project]. Macedonian Ethnological Society & Center for Ethnic Studies, Tirana.
2002–2004 – Risteska, I. C. (Researcher & lecturer). What every adolescent has the right to know – research through active participation [Research project]. UNICEF & Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. Funded by UNICEF Skopje.
2002 – Risteska, I. C. (Project participant). Plet – Macedonian traditional musical heritage (CD project). Macedonian Student Ethnological Society. Funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia.
2000–2004 – Risteska, I. C. (Student researcher). Ethnological and cultural-anthropological research of the Poreče region [Research project]. Project leader: Aneta Svetieva.
1999–2000 – Risteska, I. C. (Student researcher). Multicultural and ethnic characteristics of four villages in the Veles region [Student research project]. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology & Institute of Sociology, Skopje.