Jaro Veselinovič completed his undergraduate and master studies at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (Faculty of Arts, Univerity of Ljubljana). In 2017, he defended the BA thesis Bosnia in Transition, Bosnians in Transit: Contemporary Migrations from Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Light of Political-Economic Changes. In March 2021, he completed his MA studies with the thesis Transformation of Everyday Life in Post-Socialist Macedonia: Hope and Waiting between Socialism and the European Union, which was nominated for the University of Ljubljana’s Prešeren award. He deepened his knowledge by studying in Prague (2015/2016) and by studying and practical training in Skopje (2018/2019).
Since October 2021, he is employed as a research assistant to Saša Poljak Istenič, Ph. D. at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology at ZRC SAZU and enrolled in the Ph. D. study program at the Faculty of Arts under the mentorship of Miha Kozorog, Ph. D. He cooperates in the Urban Futures project with the research focusing on the European Capital of Culture as a ritual of Europeanization.