Research Areas

  • Social History in Czechoslovak State Socialism
  • Slovak Romani History
  • History of Minorities
  • Politics of Memory
  • Postcolonial Studies

Personal Data

  • born in 1992 in Budweis
  • studied German Language and Literature, Political Science, and History at Charles University in Prague (BA.)
  • holds an MA. in Social History, Political Theory, and Historical Sociology from Charles University in Prague
  • since 2019, she has been a PhD student at Charles University in Prague, dissertation
  • project: Struggle for Participation. Slovak Roma in State Socialism and Early Postsocialism (1950-1993)
  • student exchange in Vienna, Berlin, and Hamburg
  • since February 2022, she has been a member of the Czecho-Slovak work group responsible for chosen lemmas concerning Slovakia for the Encyclopaedia documenting the National Socialist genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe of the University in Heidelberg

Fellowships/Awards

  • Research funding by Charles University Grant Agency (GAUK) in 2017
  • Scholarship by the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic
    (February–July 2022), Institute of the Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Fellowship of Collegium Carolinum (Fall 2022)

Publications

Articles:

  • “We Are Not Flying Angels, Who – without Any Material Needs – Can Satisfy the Soul” / Conflicts, Negotiating and Making Demands by Members of the City and District Committees of the Slovak Union of Gypsies-Roma in Košice, 1969–1973. In: Czech Journal of Contemporary History, 31/3 (2024), S. 749-784.

  • Romové jako aktéři vyjednávání bytové agendy v době státního socialismu. Případová studie Podunajských Biskupic a Plaveckého Štvrtku (1950–1989). In: Romano džaniben 31/2 (2024), S. 13–50.

  • Co-author with Eliška Pekárková. Muzejní edukace jako příležitost k inkluzivnějšímu pojetí dějin? In: Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, 75/1-2 (2021), S. 66-70.

  • Being Isolated in Togetherness. The Coexistence of Roma and the Majority of Society Living in Slovakia during the 1930s and 1940s. In: Prague Economic and Social History Papers, 29/1 (2020), S. 47-58


Reviews:

  • Review on Baloun, Pavel. "Metla našeho venkova!": kriminalizace Romů od první republiky až po prvotní fázi protektorátu (1918-1941). Utváření „cikánství “. In: Dějiny a současnost, 45/4 (2023), p. 47.
  • Review on Anna Mirga Kruszelnicka, Jekatyerina Dunajeva (eds.): Re-Thinking Roma Resistance throughout History: Recounting Stories of Strength and Bravery. In: Romano džaniben 29/2 (2023), pp. 130–138.
  • Co-author with Jakub Vrba. Národ bez otázek, občané bez muzea. In: Dějiny a současnost 44/2 (2022), pp. 36-38.
  • Review on Horváthová, Jana (Hg.): ...to jsou těžké vzpomínky: vzpomínky Romů a Sintů na život před válkou a v protektorátu. Proti lhostejnosti. Těžké vzpomínání (nejen) Romů a Sintů. In:  Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia Praha: Národní muzeum, 75/3-4 (2021), S.  82–83.