• 2007: PhD in Sociology of Culture (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts)

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of History

• 2014: Assistant Professor of Modern Slovenian and General History
• 2011: Assistant for Modern Slovenian and  General History
• 2005: Assistant for Sociology of Culture
• 2004–2007: young researcher (Department of Sociology)

Research projects

• 2017–2022: member of the European research project EIRENE - Post-War Transitions in Gendered Perspective: the Case of the North Eastern Adriatic Region, headed by Prof. Marta Verginella, PhD
• 2014–2016: member of the SRA research project Multikulturna prijateljstva in narodne vezi na presečiščih slovenskega, italijanskega in nemškega sveta (1848–1941), headed by Prof. Marta Verginella, PhD
• 2014–2017: member of the SRA research project Women and the First World War.
• 2012–: member of the research group Slovenian History (Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)
• 2011–2014: researcher in the project Gender Structure of the Contemporary Slovene Society and Gender Positioning in the Field of Politics (headed by Milica Antić Gaber, PhD)
• 2009–2012:  researcher at the SRA project Juridical and Political History of Women (headed by Prof. Marta Verginella, PhD)
• 2004–2007: Ways of Implementing the EU Directives on Violence against Women, Children and Youth: Good Practices and Recommendations (Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)

The history of gender and identity politics, social history, history of the nineteenth century, Carniola.

Selišnik, Irena in Verginella, Marta. 2017. »Slovene intellectuals on the nation and marriage.«  Irish slavonic studies 26: 110–130.

Selišnik, Irena in Cergol Paradiž, Ana. 2016. »Delovanje žensk od karitativnosti do socialnega dela : zgodovinski pregled razvoja dobrodelnosti in začetki idej socialnega dela v letih 1850–1941 na Slovenskem.« Socialno delo 55, št. 5/6 (sep.–dec.): 239–251.

Selišnik, Irena. »The ladies of charity in Carniola, 1848 to 1914.«  Aspasia 8: 64–89.

Selišnik, Irena. 2016. »Vstop množic v polje političnega na prelomu 20. stoletja na Slovenskem.« VHistorični seminar 12, uredili  Šter, Katarina in Žagar Karer, Mojca, 65–85. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU.

Selišnik, Irena in Verginella, Marta. 2013. »The desire to be free: Marica Nadlišek Bartol and the young intelligentsia at the turn of the 20th century.«  Historijski zbornik  66, št. 1: 101–120.