Assignment:
II. Humans, identities, environments
Address:
Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v. v. i., Vlašská 355/9, 118 00 Praha 1
E-mail:
mikes@usd.cas.cz
Research Interests:
- Contemporary environmental history,
- Urban history
- Landscape and spatial history
- the 1990s
- Housing development and privatisation
Education:
- 2025-now: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Modern Economic and Social History (Doctoral)
- 2022-2025: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Economic and Social History (Master’s)
- 2018-2022: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, two-subject study of „History“ a „Islamic
History and Culture (Bachelor)
Employment:
- 2025-now: Institute of Contemporary History of the CAS, junior researcher for project
„Privatization of the Housing Stock and Transformations of Housing Policy in
Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic 1990–2006“ - 2022-2024: Institute of Contemporary History of the CAS, processing archival material for project „In search of the Postmodern City. Transformation of Prague and Bratislava
between 1970 and 2000 (Ideas-Policies-Construction)“ - 2019-2023: Library of the Department of Middle-Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, cataloguing of the resources
Study and Research Stays Abroad:
- 2024-2025: Practical Internship at Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) in Vienna
Research Projects:
- 2025-now: Privatization of the Housing Stock and Transformations of Housing Policy in
Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic 1990–2006, junior researcher - 2022-2024: In search of the Postmodern City. Transformation of Prague and Bratislava
between 1970 and 2000 (Ideas-Policies-Construction), processing archival
material
Articles (in Czech):
- Ekologie 90. let a malešická spalovna (1990s Ecology and the Waste Incinerator in Prague), in: Pražská evvoluce. Magazín o ekovýchově v Praze, 4/2024, str. 26-28, Published also at Ekolist.cz.