Marta Verginella (born 20 June 1960) is a Slovenian-Italian historian from Trieste, and one of the most prominent contemporary Slovene historians.She was born in Trieste, Italy, where she attended Slovene language schools. In 1984, she graduated from history at the University of Trieste under the supervision of the renowned social anthropologist and femminist historian Luisa Accati. For five years she worked as a high school teacher in Slovene language schools in Trieste and Gorizia. In 1995, she obtained her PhD at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of Peter Vodopivec, with a thesis on the changing attitudes towards death in the 19th century rural peripheries of Trieste.She continued her studies at the University of Klagenfurt and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Since 1996, she has taught theory of historiography and social history of 19th century Europe at the University of Ljubljana. She has been visiting professor at several universities in Italy, as well as at the University of Valencia in Spain, and the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia.