prof. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A.

prof. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A.

Posts:

  • Department of Russian and East European Studies
  • Academic Council

E-mail: kralova@fsv.cuni.cz

Telephone: +420 267 224 269

Website

Supervised thesis

Rooms: No. C320, Jinonice, building C

ResearcherID: L-1066-2017

Scopus Author ID: 57189373493

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9475-7933

CV

Kateřina Králová is a Professor of Contemporary History and the Head of the Research Center for Memory Studies at Charles University. She also currently serves as a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on coming to terms with the Nazi past, the Holocaust, the Greek Civil War, post-war reconstruction, and migration related to armed conflicts.

Králová studied political science and German philology at Phillips University in Marburg and has received numerous prestigious international fellowships throughout her academic career, including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute Fellowship, the USHMM Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship at Yale University. A significant part of her research has thus been conducted in international settings.

In 2017, she received the Prize of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic for outstanding researchers under 40, and in 2024 she was elected a member of the Society. She is a co-founder of the Herzl Center for Israeli Studies at Charles University, the 4EU+ Alliance research cluster “Plurality of Memory in Europe in a Global Perspective,” the CENTRAL project “Institutionalizing Memory in Post-Conflict Societies,” and a leading member of the COST-Action initiative Slow Memory.

In 2022, the Claims Conference supported her proposal for a partnership in Holocaust education, which was granted to Charles University. In 2025, she received the Humboldt Alumni Award. That same year, Králová chaired the board of the Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic, joined the advisory board of the Holocaust Education Foundation at Northwestern University, served as the main organizer of the global conference of the Memory Studies Association in Prague, and co-led the GAČR-NCN research grant with Professor Joanna Wawrzyniak (UW).

She is the author of Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung (Böhlau, 2016; BpB, 2017) and Homecoming (Brandeis University Press, 2025), as well as numerous scholarly articles, thematic issues, and collective volumes in Czech, English, German, Greek, and French. She actively serves on several editorial boards.

Rok vydání

Monographs

Chapters in monographs

Articles

Contributions in the conference proceedings

2017: Prize of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic for outstanding researchers under 40

2025: Humboldt Alumni Award

https://is.cuni.cz/studium/kdojekdo/index.php?do=detailuc&kuc=00276

  • Greek refugees in Eastern Europe
  • Holocaust survivors - microhistories
  • World War II and rescue operations
  • Humanitarianism and Europe after the war
  • Holocaust commemoration in public space 
  • Memory wars

"Displacement and (Post)secular Memory: Contemporary Crises and Historical Legacies in Southeastern and East-Central Europe" (MEMCRIS), GAČR-NCN  26-19867L- co-leader (2026-2028) * "Humboldt MemoNet" (Humboldt Alumni Award) - leader (2025-2028) *  "The Land Gone Wild" (CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008705) - senior researcher (2025-2029) * "Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis (HERA - CHANSE) - co-convener & researcher for Czechia (2025-2028) * "Margins of Memory Research Network", Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America – Regensburg, co-investigator (2025-2027) * COST Action 20105 “Slow Memory” - leadership member on Welfare (2021-2015) * Alexander von Humboldt senior research fellow, HU Berlin (2021/2022) * Vienna Wiesenthal Institute research fellow (2020-2021) * Mentor of a CEFRES post-doctoral fellow (2020-2022) * 4EU+ European University Alliance – program committee member (2019-2020) * Senior research fellow at the Centre for the Transdisciplinary Research of Violence, Trauma and Justice, CUNI (UNCE/HUM/009) * Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 765224 (FATIGUE) (2018-2021) Project title: Delayed Transformational Fatigue in Central and Eastern Europe: Responding to the Rise of Illiberalism/Populism * PRIMUS Research Programme (PI: 2017-2021) [PRIMUS/HUM/12] Project title: Beyond Hegemonic Narratives and Myths. Troubled Pasts in the History and Memory of East-Central & South-East Europe (BOHEMs) * "100 years of Sephardic life in Los Angeles," UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies project (contributor) (2020) * COST Action 15101 "Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories" (COMPACT) - MC (2016-2020) * CENTRAL-Project of Strategic Partnership, CUNI - HU Berlin - UNIVIE - ELTE - UW (2015-2017; 2018-2020; 2021-2026) * Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) (PI: 2016-2018) [16-16009S] Project title: “We had to live, we had to survive somehow...” Jews in Greece, 1944–2012 * Sosland Family Fellow, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, Washington D.C. (6/2015-1/2016) * Research Program THALIS: Operational Program "Education and Life Long Learning", Greece (2012-2013) * J. William Fulbright Commission, USA Fulbright-Masaryk Research Scholarship - Yale University (9/2008-5/2009)

Contemporary European history, Holocaust and memory studies, post-conflict society, historical migration

Regional focus: Greece, Central, East and South-East Europe

  • Contemporary European history
  • Holocaust and Memory Studies
  • Post-conflict society
  • Historical migration
  • Modern history of Greece