Institute of Contemporary History

Research interests:

Social history of Central Europe (20th century), microhistory, urban history, minority and marginalized communities, coexistence and conflict dynamics, deindustrialization and reindustrialization processes

 Education:

2018‒2025: Ph.D. (summa cum laude), University of Regensburg & Charles University (Joint PhD Program: History), Thesis Title: Navigating Turbulent Times: A Microhistory of a Multilingual Small Town in Mid-20th Century Slovakia; Supervisors: Prof. Kateřina Králová, Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer; (2019‒2021 parental leave)

2015‒2018: Mgr., Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (Master study program: Balkan, Eurasian, and Central European Studies; summa cum laude), Thesis Title: Manifestation of the German Minority Identity in the Cemeteries of Medzev, Slovakia

2012–2015: Bc., Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (Bachelor study program: International Area Studies; summa cum laude)

Employment (selection):

Since 2025: Researcher, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences

Since 2020: Lecturer, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

2023–2024:  Coordinator, Malach Center for Visual History, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University

Study and Research Stays Abroad:

2024–2025: GRADUATE SCHOOL for East and Southeast European Studies, UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG, Germany, Visiting Fellow (One-year PhD fellowship program sponsored by the Free State of Bavaria /BTHA/)

2023 (April–June): UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ, Finland, Department of History and Ethnology, PhD Traineeship within the project “Expellees and Ethno-National Categorizations in Europe, 1943‒1948”

2022 (September): Institute of Social Sciences, SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Košice, Slovakia; PhD Traineeship

2017: UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS, Hungarian Language and Culture Summer University

2016 (Sept–Nov): LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FÜR OST- UND SÜDOSTEUROPAFORSCHUNG, Regensburg, Germany; MA Traineeship

2016: UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN, Debrecen Summer School – Hungarian language course

2014–2015: CORVINUS UNIVERSITY OF BUDAPEST, Faculty of Economics; BA Study Program (ERASMUS Fellowship)

Research projects:

2025–2028: The Johannes Amos Comenius Programme (OP JAK) Inequality, adaptation and urban public space in historical perspective, research project member

2023‒2024: GRANT AGENCY OF CHARLES UNIVERSITY (Project Post-WWII Coexistence in an East Slovak Small-town), main investigator

2025: Charles University Grant Agency President’s Award

(Award for an outstanding scientific achievement achieved with the targeted support of GA UK)

2017‒2020: PRIMUS Grant Charles University (Project Beyond Hegemonic Narratives and Myths. Troubled Pasts in the History and Memory of East-Central and South-East Europe), research project member

2017: GRANT AGENCY OF CHARLES UNIVERSITY (Project Manifestation of the German minority identity at the graveyards of Medzev, MA Fellowship), main investigator

2017: CENTRAL Kolleg (Project CENTRAL-Cemeteries – Funeralkultur in Zentraleuropa. Der Friedhof als Ort der Verhandlung und Konstruktion von Geschichte und Erinnerung), HU-Berlin, Universität Wien, Charles University; MA Fellowship

2016: CENTRAL Kolleg (Project Friedhof als Artefakt und Erinnerungsort in zentraleuropäischen Grenzräumen), HU-Berlin, Universität Wien, Charles University; MA Fellowship

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters:

Juhászová, Tereza. “Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery (1918–1947).” Contemporary European History, 2025, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777325000153.

Juhászová, Tereza. “Negotiations of Belonging: Roma in the Czechoslovak Borderlands During the First Half of the 20th Century.” In Malach Center for Visual History: Compendium of Papers of the Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference 2025, edited by Petra Hoffmannová a Klára Kosová, 156–176. Prague: Matfyzpress, 2025.

Juhászová, Tereza. “ʻBien Mantaaknʼ: The Manifestation of Identity in Cemeteries in the Eastern Slovak Town of Medzev,” in East Central European Cemeteries: Ethnic, Linguistic, and Narrative Aspects of Sepulchral Culture and the Commemoration of the Dead in Borderlands, edited by Ferdinand Kühnel, Soňa Mikulová, and Snežana Stanković, 77–106. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2023.

Juhászová, Tereza. “Post-WWII Migration Flows in Micro-perspective: The Case of the East Slovak Small Town Medzev.” Individual and Society | Človek a spoločnosť 25, no. 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.31577/cas.2022.01.598

Juhászová, Tereza. “The Troubled Pasts of Hungarian and German Minorities in Slovakia and Their Representation in Museums.” Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics 12, no. 1 (2018), 52–71. https://doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2018-0002

Conferences and workshops (selection):

“Post-Memories of Displacement: The Expulsion of Germans from Slovakia in Individual Perspectives Across Borders,” ASEEES 57th Annual Convention, November 20–23, 2025; Washington DC, USA.

“Social Transformation of Rural Slovakia? The Case of a Stubborn Landowner in a Multilingual Region (1940s–1990s),” Dynamics of Property Change in Eastern Europe: Land Reforms, Expropriations and Restitutions in Transformation Processes: Annual Conference of the German Association for Eastern European Studies (DGO), Herne, Germany, October 16–17, 2025.

“Lokale Zugehörigkeit durch industrielles Erbe: Eine mehrsprachige Gemeinschaft in der Ostslowakei,” Konferenz der Deutsch-Tschechischen und Deutsch-Slowakischen Historikerkommission, October 8–10, 2025, Kutná Hora, CZ, October 8–10, 2025.

“Navigating Turbulent Times: A Microhistory of a Multilingual Small Town in Mid-20th Century Slovakia,” Southeast European History Colloquium, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, May 21, 2025, Munich, Germany.

“Viersprachigkeit in der Kirche: Der Metzenseifener Pfarrer Dr. Rudolf Siebert und seine Pfarrei im 20. Jahrhundert,” Heimat-, Bildungs- und Kulturseminar des Hilfsbund Karpatendeutscher Katholiken München e.V. – Landesverband Bayern, April 2025; Germany. (invited speaker)

“Coexistence after the Second World War in a Small East-Slovak Town,” Séminaire Central du CERCEC, EHESS, March 3, 2025; Paris, France.

“From German Peasant to ʻExemplary Cooperative Memberʼ: A Microhistory of Rural Transformations in Eastern Slovakia after 1945,” ASEEES 56th Annual Convention, November 21–24, 2024; Boston, USA.

“Deindustrialization in a Linguistically Mixed Periphery of Czechoslovakia during the Second Half of the 20th Century,” Fifth European Labour History Network Conference, June 11–13, 2024; Uppsala University, Sweden.

“A Czech Teacher in a Slovak Multilingual Periphery: A Microhistory of Czechoslovak Nation-Building (1930s–1948),” Fifth Annual Graduate Workshop “Change from Below: Mobility, Transformation, and Exchange across Europe,” Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien, Uni Regensburg-LMU Munich, May 2024, Germany.

“Gesellschaftliche Veränderungen in der Kleinstadt Metzenseifen nach 1945. Eine Perspektive konkreter Orte und ihrer Bewohner,” Heimat-, Bildungs- und Kulturseminar des Hilfsbund Karpatendeutscher Katholiken München e.V. – Landesverband Bayern, March 2024; Germany. (invited speaker)

“Teachers in Power: Nation-Building, Loyalty, and Retribution in Postwar Czechoslovakia,” CENTRAL-Workshop “Transformation of Memory Cultures and Politics”, February 29–March 1, 2024; Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

“ʻThey Run the Business and Do Not Speak Slovak:ʼ Small-Town Factory in Slovakia as a Place of Coexistence after 1945,” ASEEES 55th Annual Convention, November 30–December 3, 2023; Philadelphia, USA.

“Places of Coexistence in an East Slovak Town after 1945,” CENTRAL Workshop “Notion and Construction of Victimhood in Central East and Southeast Europe,”  8. –10. 2. 2023, University of Vienna, Austria.

“Difficult Coexistence? East Slovak Small-Town after 1945,” BTHA Workshop “Difficult Heritage,” Charles University–University of Regensburg, 11. –13. 11. 2022, Prague, CZ.

“A Microhistory of Post-World War II Coexistence in an East Slovak Small Town,” Twenty-First Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop, 29.–30. 4. 2022, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA.

“Migration Flows in Micro Perspective: The Case of East Slovak Small-Town,” International Conference “Post-WWII Migration Flows (not only) in the Propaganda Studies Context,” 21. 1. 2022, ISS CSPS SAS, Košice, Slovakia.

“From »Hommaschmiide« to Tatrasmalt: Transfer of Knowledge of Metalworking in Eastern Slovak Small Town after 1945,” 3. Workshop für junge Wissenschaftler*innen: „Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte in imperialen, nationalen und post-nationalen Kontexten,“ 16.–17.9.2021, GWZO Leipzig, Germany.