Current PhD Students and their Projects

Current PhD Students and their Projects

Absolvents of the Modern history can be found here.

Student

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Supervisor

Kevin Back

Violence as Social Practice: Sexual Violence and the Construction of Difference in the Banat region, 1880-1914/18Ota Konrád
Anežka BrožováMax Brod as a mediator of Czech drama to a German-speaking audience. The reception of the Czech theatre scene in articles by Max Brod in the Prager Abendblatt and Prager Tagblatt newspapers between 1921 and 1939Alena Zelená
Maria-Diana BucuroiuDefying the Laws of Gravity and Society: Women Aviators in WWII Romania and Their Legacy of Female Empowerment (1935-1950)Maria Alina Asavei
Jose Francisco Espejo JimenezCollective memory and history in Post-totalitarian regimes: Narration of traumatic events in Spain (Civil War and Franco’s regime) and Romania (Ceausescu’s regime and Romanian revolution in 1989) in History textbooks.Adrian Brisku
Jakub FryntaCzechoslovakia and Ukraine during the period of perestroika (1985–1991)Luboš Švec
Kateřina FuksováLandscape as a theoretical framework for the study of memory and identity in the Republic of MoldovaMaria Alina Asavei
Alina GalsterDie russische Emigration in Prag während der deutschen Besatzung 1939-1945: Alltagserfahrungen jenseits von Kollaboration und WiderstandOta Konrád
Alicia Garcia CabaleiroPsychiatry in the Communist periphery: translation of medical humanism and human ecology into psychiatric practices during the Cold War. The cases of Cuba and CzechoslovakiaOta Konrád
Giovanni Lama GhettiThe political emigration of Italians to Czechoslovakia in the 1950sTomáš Nigrin
Ediz HazirThe Consequences of Turkish Nationalist Movements on Istanbul’s Roman Catholic Community: From the Young Turk Revolution (1908) to the end of Single-party Period (1950)Maria Alina Asavei
Mikuláš HodovanecThe Sovietisation of Czechoslovak diplomacy? Czechoslovak students at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (1952–1989)Daniela Kolenovská
Veronika HomolováThe role of autonomous regions and international administration within the Versailles system: The cases of Memel/Klaipėda, the British Mandate of Palestine, and Rijeka/FiumeOta Konrád
Jan CharvátKarl Siegl´s Haunted Egerland. Unrecognized Futures, Contested Loyalties, and Political Mythmaking during the Interbellum (1918-1925)Adrian Brisku
Barbora ChrzováMemory-making in Bosnian-Herzegovinian Republika Srpska: Assembling Nationalist Memory in TrebinjeKateřina Králová
Tomáš KošekHow do the localized conflicts start? Mixed-method analysis of the spiral of violence in Bosanska Krajina, May/June 1992Ondřej Žíla
Tereza KoutníkováForgotten Voices: Czechoslovak Testimonies of Victims of the Nazi Regime Collected in 1945 in SwedenHana Kubátová
Markéta KroupováPerforming arts at the Buchenwald concentration campOta Konrád
Ondřej KukanThe transport policy of Austro-fascist AustriaTomáš Nigrin
Kinga Alina LangowskaFeliks Gadomski (1898-1998). A microhistorical biography of an émigré activistLuboš Švec
Sára Lochmanová"Who May Exist?": Black Self-Defense Organizations and the U.S. Department of Justice´s Surveillance as a Mechanism to Maintain Systemic Racism from 1962 to 1982Jan Hornát
Ondřej MatějkaHistorical anniversaries as a reflection of changes in the culture of remembranceOta Konrád
Kyaw Min AungKyaw Nyein and the Non-aligned World: a Study on the Life of Kyaw Nyein and His Role in Burma´s Foreign Relations with the Third WorldJan Hornát
Jakub NovosadRussian migration to Serbia after 2022: selective integration, parallel structures and the role of historical memoryKarin Roginer Hofmeister
Alexios Ntetorakis ExarchouThe role of the refugees from the Bulgarian zone of occupation during the Holocaust in ThessalonikiKateřina Králová
Radana RutováThe emigration of Jews from Czechoslovakia after the Second World WarKateřina Králová
Klára ŘihákováYoung Helsinki: Diplomacy, Mobility, and Activism and the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, 1970s-1990Ondřej Klípa
Ahmed Siddiqui MuneebThe Impact of Fascist Ideology on Muslim Movements and Intellectual Thought in Pre-Independent India and Early Post-. Independent PakistanRudolf Kučera
Theodor SpitzerReporters and Correspondents: The American Media and Czechoslovakia from 1967 to 1969Vít Smetana
Leo Lukas StauberArms Town Steyr as Home Front in the Global Cold WarTomáš Nigrin
Jakub ŠindelářHistorical narratives and representations in computer games and their reception in Let’s Play videosOndřej Matějka
Vladimír ŠpínaMemory in a post-conflict society and the conflict over national identity: the transformation of unofficial commemorations of the Anglo-Irish War and the Civil War in the Irish stateOta Konrád
Olga Blaťáková ŠvepešováReligion, Identity and Politics in Montenegro: Balancing the Roles of the State and the Orthodox Churches since the Break-up of YugoslaviaOndřej Žíla
Kateřina TancmanováNegotiating Memory and Identity: Polish History Education in Times of CrisesKateřina Králová