Nina Perger is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, Department of Sociology (Academic Unit of Theoretical Sociology), and is considered one of the well-prepared talents of her generation. Her PhD thesis (on Nonbinary gender and sexual identities) earned her an award from the Slovene Sociological Association. She is a creative activist in the field of human rights, putting strong energy and time to theoretical and academic ventures and practical activism alike.

Her work on gender and sexuality analyses both domination and power relations as well as forms of resistance and persistence; with an interest in theory and sociology of everyday life. Theoretically, she draws strongly on Bourdieu and his understanding of the task of (emancipatory) social sciences with their stubborn commitment to the social world. Recently, she started working on contemporary assaults against critical scholarship, embedding these assaults in the broader context of increasingly anti- democratic and illiberal sociopolitical discourse while paying attention to historical traces of these assaults as well as to their epistemological frameworks.

She was co-founder and coordinated the creative project Decontramination (Dekontraminacija) monitoring and tracking hateful graffiti. The project emerged in response to the rise of anti-LGBT, anti-gender, and anti-feminist rhetoric during the marriage-equality referendum campaigns, when hate speech became rampant in Slovenia. The initiative produced counter-narratives grounded in human rights and democratic citizenship, encouraged community participation and engagement in acts of resistance and forms of everyday political intervention. The project still runs and has consolidated its international dimension.