Institute of Contemporary History

Main areas of research:

• cottage subculture in the second half of the 20th century
• everyday life in the period of so-called normalization
• ethical and legal aspects of oral history

Education:

• 2022 to present – Management of Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc
• 2010 Ph.D. degree Sociocultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague
• 2002 MA Degree, General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague

Professional career:

• 2022 to present: Project Manager of the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
• 2002 to present: Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History CAS
• 2017-2021: Head of the Oral History Centre of the CAS
• 2002-2017: Manager of the Oral History Centre of the CAS

Memberships:

• 2023 to present – member of CZARMA (Czech Association of Research Managers)
• 2015 to present – member of the Executive Committee of the Czech Oral History Association
• 2007 to present – member of the Czech Oral History Association

Research projects:

• Student Generation of 1989 in Longitudinal Perspective. Biographical Interviews after Twenty Years, Czech Science Foundation, 2017-2019, member of the research team, coordinator
• “Micro-histories “and “Macro-history” of Czech/Czechoslovak Travelling and Tourism 1945–1989, Czech Sicence Foundation, 2014-2016, team member
• Czech Society in the „Normalisation“ and Transformation Era: Biographic Narrations, Czech Sicence Foundation, 2011-2015, member of the research team
• Social aspects of the cottage subculture in the study of everyday life in the period of so-called normalization. GA CAS 2007-2009, principal investigator
• Czech society in the period of the so-called normalization. Biographical interviews of members of the working professions and intelligentsia. Czech Sicence Foundation, 2006-2008, member of the research team
• Political elites and dissent in the period of the so-called normalization. Biographical interviews. Czech Sicence Foundation, 2002-2004, member of the research team

Selected Bibliography:

• „Communism Didn´t Touch My Kids Like Me.” Images of Communism in a Family Perspective. Slovenský národopis. Roč. 69, č. 2 (2021), s. 308-323. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478-se-2021-0017.
• SelbstorganisationimSozialismus. Das Rote Kreuz in Polen und der Tschechoslowakei 1945–1989. [Self-organization in Socialism.The Red Cross in Poland and Czechoslovakia 1945–1989.] HACHMEISTER, M.: SelbstorganisationimSozialismus. Das Rote Kreuz in Polenund der Tschechoslowakei 1945–1989. Göttingen, 2019. 286 s.. Historische Zeitschrift. Roč. 311, č. 3 (2020), s. 852-853. https://doi.org/10.1515/hzhz-2020-1513.
• Vaněk, Miroslav – Wohlmuth Markupová, Jana – Pehe, Veronika – Schindler-Wisten, Petra: One Hundred Student Evolutions. University students in 1989. Biographical narratives in a time-lapse perspective. Prague: Academia, Institute for Contemporary History of the CAS, 2019.
• One Narrator, Three Interviewers, Twenty Years. Oral History Research from the Interviewer’s Point of View. In: Memo. Časopis pro orální historii. Roč. 9, č. 2 (2019), s. 41-60.
• The Phenomenon of Second Houses in the Czechoslovakia. The Notes from Anthropological Terrain Diary. In: Turistická odysea. Krajinou soudobých dějin cestování a cestovního ruchu v Československu v letech 1945 až 1989. Praha: Karolinum, 2018 – (Mücke, P.; Krátká, L.), s. 426-449.
• Of Second Homes and People. Country Home Dweling in the Czech Lands in Period of “Normalisation” and “Transformation”. Prague: Karolinum 2017, 212 p.
• Czech Gardening during the Second Half of the 20th Century from Cottager’s Point of View. In: Folia ethnographica. Roč. 51, č. 1 (2017), s. 35-42.
• The Dynamics of Oral History Research. The Narrator and the Interviewer as Two Players with Their Own Trump Cards. In: Na hranicích mezi minulostí a přítomností. Současné perspektivy orální historie. Praha: Česká asociace orální historie, 2016 – (Mücke, P.; Brychta, M.), s. 97-108.