Short biography:
Zuzana Beňušková (1960) was born and lives in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 1983 she graduated in ethnology from the Comenius University in Bratislava and started to work at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology, devoting to rituals, religiosity, ethnic minorities and the urban ethnology. Since 1996 – 2025/august she also teaches at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Constantine Philosopher (UCP) in Nitra. Since 2004 she became the professor assistant and 2013 university professor. 2005 – 2011 she was the Head of the Department of Ethnology and Ethnomusicology at the UCP University. She is the author of over 100 papers, and 10 scientific books.
The result ot the research of the history of Slovak ethnology is a series of audiovisual documents. She is a member of the Organizing Committee of Etnofilm Čadca international film festival.
She was the editor of the journal Etnologické rozpravy (The Discussions on Ethnology) in 2002 –2003; she was 2002-2008 the chairperson of the Slovak Society of Ethnology (Národopisná spoločnosť Slovenska).