Mgr. Klára Kosová, Ph.D.

• The transition from non-democratic regimes to democracy and its role in shaping the perceptions, values, and mental images of a given society
• Democratic legitimacy — how it is constructed, understood, and eroded in public discourse
• The role of conceptual metaphor and (pre-)figurative poetic acts in human thought, political communication, and narrative-building
• Bulgarian politics and society; regional expertise in the Balkans (fluent in Bulgarian)
• Computational methods in the humanities and social sciences (R, machine learning)

Monographs

Chapters in monographs

Articles

• Kosová K. (2022). Wealth defence strategies of Bulgarian Oligarchs in the 1990s. Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 22(3), 361-379. UT-WOS link
• Kosová K. (2024). THROUGH THE LENS OF MEDIATIZATION: GOVERNANCE LEGITIMACY IN THE WAKE OF BULGARIAN PROTESTS IN 2020 AND 2021. Studia Politica, 24(2), 359-388.

Contributions in the conference proceedings

• Kosová K. (2025). The Case for Metaphors in Public Discourse. Imaginary of Bulgarian Governance through the Prism of Metaphors. Malach Center for Visual History on its 15th Anniversary: Compendium of Papers of the Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference 2025 (pp. 99-121).

2026-2027: Martina Roeselová Memorial Fellowship. IOCB Foundation. 

2026-2028: Foreign Interference in the Context of Geopolitical and Technological Change (INTERFER). Johannes Amos Comenius Operational Programme (OP JAK). Project number CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008692. 

2025–2027: Strengthening Democratic Resilience Through Digital Twins (TWIN4DEM). EU Horizon Europe. Project number 101178061. 

2024–2029: Peace Research Center Prague. Charles University. Project number UNCE 24/SSH/18.

2020-2024: Plurality of Memories. 4EU+ Alliance. Project number EDU 2020/F2/21-2024