Assignment:
III. Knowledge, culture, expertise
Address:
Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v. v. i., detašované pracoviště Puškinovo nám. 9, 160 00 Praha 6
E-mail:
babicka@usd.cas.cz
ORCID ID:
0000-0001-7028-5425
Research interests:
- History of neoliberalism
- Environmental history
- History of popular culture
- History of late state socialism and post-socialism in Czechoslovakia and East-Central Europe
Education:
- 2019-2024, University of Oxford, Wadham College, History (DPhil.)
- 2018-2019, University of Oxford, St Edmund’s Hall, Modern European History (MSt.)
- 2014-2018, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, History–English (Bc.)
Employment:
- Since 2023: postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
Study and Research Stays Abroad:
- 2026, University of Warsaw, Institute of Polish culture, Visegrad Fellow
- 2025, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, International Fellow
- 2024, Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, visiting fellow
- 2024, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, visiting fellow
- 2022, Sciences Po, Centre d’études européennes, visiting doctoral student
- 2017, Aarhus Universitaät, Erasmus exchange
Research projects:
- 2022-2027, member of the Research Group for Historical Transformation Studies (PI: Veronika Pehe, prémie Lumina Quaeruntur Fellowship)
Articles:
- „Discourses of Moral and Ecological Crisis in the Czech Post-Socialist Transformation.“ East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, 2024. 368-391.
- “A ‚Right to Sadness‘: Late Socialist Environmentalism between Technocracy and Romanticism and the Czech Nature Writer Jaromír Tomeček.” Kontradikce 6, no. 2 (2023): 67–90.
- “’The future is in your hands‘: temporality and the neoliberal self in the Czech voucher privatization.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 30, no. 1 (2022): 83-99.