Institute of Contemporary History

Professional positions:

• 2005 to present Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, research fellow
  2017 to present Chairwoman of Board of the Institute
  2005–2017 Research secretary of the Institute
• 2011 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education, PhD in history
• 2000–2004 Centre for the history of sciences and humanities (a joint establishment of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences), junior research fellow
• 1992 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Magister degree

Research projects:

• The Concept and Enforcement of Communist Education in Czechoslovakia 1948–1989 (2016–2018, Czech Science Foundation, research team member)
• Site Stories: Topography of the Contemporary Memory of the Nation (2011–2015, Ministry of Culture, research team member)
• Political science in Czechoslovakia as instruments of state communist ideology, 1945–1960 (2010–2012, Czech Science Foundation, investigator)
• The College of Political and Economic Sciences (1949–1953). Sovietization of the Czechoslovak education system (2007–2009, Czech Science Foundation, investigator)

Selected bibliography:

• Terror, Failure, Resistance: Conflicting Memory of Armed Acts of Anti-Communist Resistance in Czechoslovakia. In: Czech Journal of Contemporary History V (2017), ISSN 2336-3134 (On-line)
• Marxismus jako projekt nové společnosti. Dvě studie ke společenským vědám (1945–1969). [Marxism as a project of a new society. Two studies on social sciences, 1945–1969], ÚSD 2014, ISBN 978-80-7285-175-1
• Socialismus a budování politické školy (1945–1969). [Socialism and building of political school, 1945–1969] In: Marginalia historica 2 (2012), ISSN 1804-5367
• Únor 1948 v Československu: Nástup komunistické totality a proměny společnosti. [Czechoslovakia, February 1948. The Coming of Communist Totalitarianism and Social Change], ÚSD 2011, ISBN 978-80-7285-108-9 (co-editor)
• Pražské jaro 1968: Občanská společnost – média – přenos politických a kulturních procesů. [Civil Society, the Mass Media, and the Transfer of Political and Cultural Processes in the ‘Prague Spring’ 1968], ÚSD 2011, ISBN 978-80-7285-119-5 (co-editor)
• Vědní koncepce KSČ a její institucionalizace po roce 1948. [Science policy of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and its institutionalization after 1948], ÚSD 2010, ISBN 978-80-7285-123-2 (co-author)