Institute of Contemporary History

Research Interests

• Modern cultural and social history
• Romani history
• the Holocaust of the Roma
• history of crime, punishment, and imprisonment
• disciplinary institutions and correctional imagination

Education

• 2019–present – PhD Candidate, Modern Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
• 2015–2018 – M.A. in History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
• 2013–2016 – B.A. in Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
• 2011–2015 – B.A. in History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

Academic and Professional Positions

• 2026–present: Researcher, Urbanity Project, Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2024–2026: Researcher, Lecturer, Multicultural Center Prague – Forgotten Camps Project
• 2023–2026: Researcher, Punish or Reform? Project, Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2022–2023: Member of Expert Working Group, Museum of Romani Culture – Preparation of the permanent exhibition for the Center for Roma and Sinti in Prague; editor of educational materials
• 2020–2022: Researcher, Property of Roma during the Holocaust Project, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
• 2019–2022: Curator, Folk Art Collection, Ethnographic Department, National Museum (Prague)
• 2017–2019: Researcher, Database of Roma Victims of the Holocaust Project, Terezín Initiative Institute
• 2016–2017: Specialist Librarian, Prague City Library
• 2016: Lecturer, Multicultural Center Prague – BRICkS: Building Respect in Online Spaces by Combating Hate Speech

International Research Stay

• 09/2024: HEX – Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience, visiting research fellow, Tampere University

Research Grants and Projects

• Urbanity: Inequality, Adaptation, and Urban Public Space in Historical Perspective
  Institute of Contemporary History, OP JAK (team member)
• Punish or Reform? Gender, Labor, and Discipline in Workhouses in the Czech Lands (1918–1950), Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR) (team member)

Monograph

• Holokaust a majetková perzekuce Romů, Praha: ÚSTR

Articles

• Der Gestank von Schweinen und die Autorität von Historiker:innen: Tschechische Debatten über das Konzentrationslager Lety. (Reflexionen. Jahresmagazin der Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora, 3/2023).
• K otázce útěků z koncentračního tábora v Letech u Písku: případová studie. (Bulletin Muzea romské kultury, 2020, 10–35).
• Ante Trstenjak in Prag / Ante Trstenjak w Praze.  (Bogusz, Christian – Wöppel, Robert (eds.), Barby daliny. Moler Ante Trstenjak a Lužiscy Serbja / Farben der Ferne. Der Maler Ante Trstenjak und die Lausitzer Sorben. Bautzen: Sorbisches Museum, 2020).
• Holocaust Romů v retribučním soudnictví. (Romano džaniben. Časopis romistických studií, 1/2019, 93–120).
• Kamarádi, astracháni a paďouři. Reprezentace trampingu v časopise Tramp. (Studia ethnologica pragensia, 2/2017, 79–133).

Teaching Experience

• History of Jews in Bohemia and Central Europe, CIEE Prague, Winter Semester 2024/2025
• The Holocaust of Roma and Sinti from the Czech Lands: Social Preconditions, Course, and Memory
• Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Summer Semester 2024/2025 (with R. Berkyová and H. Sadílková)
• Collective Violence in Historical Perspective, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Winter Semester 2023/2024 (with M. Jandák)
• Holocaust and the Persecution of Roma in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Summer Semester 2020/2021

Exhibitions

• Stories of Survivors: Romani Prisoners of the Concentration Camp in Lety u Písku
  Museum of Romani Culture, Prague – Clam-Gallas Palace, 2024, Author
• Information Panel Commemorating the Mass Transport of Roma and Sinti from Prague to Auschwitz, Museum of Romani Culture, Prague – Ruzyně Square, 2023
• Pride and Prejudice of National Costume, Umetnostna galerija Maribor, 2022, Expert consultant
• Bread and Butter, National Museum – Ethnographic Museum, Prague, 2022, Co-author
• Folk Faith, National Museum – Ethnographic Museum, Prague, 2021–2022, Co-author