Doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Matěj Spurný, Ph.D.

Doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Matěj Spurný, Ph.D.

Assignment:
II. Humans, identities, environments

Address:
Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v.v.i., detašované pracoviště Puškinovo nám. 9, 160 00 Praha 6

E-mail:
spurny@usd.cas.cz

Telephone:
775 683 858

ORCID ID:
0000-0001-6874-5138

Matěj Spurný serves since 2025 as director of the Institute of History of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague) and is working as a research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (since 2012). He obtained the title of associate professor (doc.) with his internationaly influential book about environment, technocratic governance and urban history of Czechoslovak state socialism in 2018 (engl. as „Making the Most of Tomorrow“, 2019). He completed several research stays in abroad, among others staying as a fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena, Germany or collaborating as a research fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam and with the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). His latest publications explore a broad range of topics related to urban and environmental history of late socialism and postsocialism. For his dissertation “Nejsou jako my” about ethnic minorities in postwar Czechoslovakia, he was awarded prestigious Czech academic and research prizes. Spurný studied in Prague and Berlin and received his Ph.D. in history at the Charles University in 2010. Since nearly two decades he also has been acting in the field of civil society, especially dealing with the post war forced displacement of Germans from Czechoslovakia and as an actor of the Czech debate about socialist dictatorship.

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