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Faculty The list includes faculty members responsible for all courses offered in the Academic year 2008-2009, including the summer 2009.
Senior Lecturer at the English Department, Prague School of Economics. Charles University graduate who has lectured English at all levels and Czech to foreigners in various institutions. She currently offers regular classes in Business English and has published textbooks at the Prague School of Economics.
Head of the Department of Classical Studies, Institute of Classical Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Associate Professor at Charles University. Dr. Bažant belongs among the most prominent and internationally renowned Czech classical archaeologists. His scholarly interests range from issues of Classical studies to Art history, semiotics of art to iconology. He has lectured at various scholarly institutions throughout Europe and participated in major international Classical Studies publishing and research projects. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International journal EIRENE.
Chair of Department of Czech Literature, Charles University Assistant Professor of Czech Literature, Charles University. Dr. Bílek belongs among the prominent Czech literary theorists and historians of younger generation. He has published two books dealing with contemporary poetry(Generace osamělých běžců, Prague 1991, and Stavitelé křídel, Prague 1991), and one book on contemporary theories of interpretations of narratives (Hledání jazyka interpretace: k modernímu prozaickému textu, Brno 2003), along with a number of articles in Czech, English, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, and Slovak. In 1994-1995, he was a Visiting Professor at Brown University. In 1995 he received a Mellon Post Doctoral Scholarship to continue his research there for two more years. He returned to the Brown University as a Visiting Professor in Spring 2000. He has lectured in Hamburg, Uppsala, Stockholm, Budapest, Dublin, London, and at Florida International University, Columbia University, and Yale University.
Senior Research Fellow, Director of the Institute of Geology ASCR. Dr. Cílek coordinates numerous EU and UNESCO environmental and geological projects. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Papers of the Czech Speleological Union (25 volumes) and member of editorial boards of major Czech scientific magazines. He has participated in field research expeditions to Asia and Africa (Tanzania, Vietnam, and Nepal) and belongs among the top experts in Pragensia studies. History of Prague, its mythology and archeology is one of the core foci of his research and publishing activities.
translator from English, publicist and film theorist has worked as a Fulbright Scholar with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Northwestern University in 1994-96, and returned there as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 1996 and 1999. An integral part of her teaching activities in the US were courses on Czech feature film and documentary. Specifically, she has taught courses on "Czech Feature Films of the Past Few Decades", "Czech Documentary Film at a Crossroad", and "Central European Film and Literature". While in the US, she lectured at various universities, Harvard and Stanford Universities, Northwestern University, and the University of Washington among them.
Professor of Geography at Charles University is a renowned European expert in social geography. He is a Full Professor at Charles University in Prague and an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. He publishes quite extensively with international publishing houses in his field and possesses impressive international teaching and research credentials throughout European university and research institutions.
Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Prague School of Economics. Dr. Dvořáková's research focuses on comparative politics (comparative government) and issues of transitions to democracy. She has co-authored five monographs and textbooks and lectured at numerous conferences abroad, including Boston (MIT), Los Angeles, and New York (NYU). She is the Czech coordinator of the East European Constitutionalism Project (organized by the American Council of Learned Societies and sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trust), member of the Executive Committee of the Czech political Science Association, Chair of the Task Force for Eastern Europe of LASA. Dr. Dvořáková manages the journal Politologická revue and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Current Europe and the Czech Republic.
Chair, Institute for Social and Economic Analyses, Senior Public Affairs Consultant. Prior to his current position, Tomáš Jelínek was employed by the state administration and non-profit sector. He served in the Office of the President from 1996 to 2001, where he was mainly responsible for President Vaclav Havel’s economic agenda. Since 2002, he is a member and a co-founder of the Institute for Social and Economic Analyses, of which he just became a Chairman. He has been involved in the non-profit sector since 1998, currently he is serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Institute of the Terezin Initiative and Vice-Chairman of the Czech Committee for Nazi Victims.
translator, gender studies scholar, publicist, musician. She taught at the Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University (English Department) from 1990 to 1999. In 1998, she was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California. Since 1991, she has served as a member of the board for the Center for Gender Studies in Prague. Her writing and research focuses on gender studies topics. In 2001, she published Czech translation of The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer. For twenty years, she performed original music as a member of an all women’s rock band, ZUBY NEHTY. She is a member of the feminist media group Meluzina.
is a young, dynamic, and dedicated instructor of Czech. She focuses on teaching Czech to English native speakers. For the purpose of CHP Czech language instruction, she co-authored, together with Dominik Lukeš, a new Czech language textbook. She worked as instructor of Czech for Peace Corps Czech Republic as well as for major international companies and institutions (Citibank, Procter&Gamble, McKensey, Midland Bank, KPMG, British Telecom, Sony, etc.).
Clinical Psychologist, Bohnice Mental Hospital studied psychology at the Comenius University in Bratislava and continued with her PhD at the Charles University in Prague where she participates in teaching psychology classes. In In center of her activities in psychology is clinical psychology. She has worked in private psychological ambulances and sanatoriums. Besides her current work in psychiatric hospital, she is a supervisor on a child help-line.
Senior Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Science studied demography and geography at the Charles University in Prague, where he also received his Ph.D. in Social and Economic Geography. He was awarded several renowned fellowships (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, University of Hokkaido in Sapporo among them) to carry out his research projects most of which are by their nature interdisciplinary. He lectured at the Charles University and served as a Director for Research at the Gallup Institute in Prague. He is co-editor of Innovations – European Journal for Social Sciences. His main research interest covers issues of electoral demography, regional perspective of political behavior, political structures in post-communist regimes, etc.
Professor of Czech Language, Charles University. Dr. Kučera is a specialist in the history of Czech who has extensive experience in teaching Czech to foreign students. He received his Ph.D. from Charles University in 1976 (dissertation The Language of J. A. Comenius' Czech Writings, Prague, 1980). He also published Loan Words in Czech (Prague, 1978), and The Czech Language in the U.S.A. (Prague, 1990), and co-authored A Small Dictionary of Old Czech (Prague, 1979). He has lectured abroad at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and the University of Amsterdam. In 1985, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and spent three years as Visiting Professor at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He is an author of more than 300 studies, reviews, articles, and essays.
Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Charles University Prague is a specialist in religious studies. For many years, he has devoted his research to study of interaction between different cultural and religious systems and their mutual influences and co-existence. He has recently served as a Deputy Head of Mission (Embassy of the Czech Republic, Tel-Aviv, Israel). He has authored numerous articles on Judaism and Christianity, translated several books on religious issues, and served on the editorial board of OIKOYMENH, a publishing house specialized in religious studies and philosophy.
Consultant on European Affairs. Dr. Mocek studied History and Political Science. He has been specializing in the European integration, publishing articles in various newspapers on the NATO, EU and European politics and for number of years he worked as a Foreign Correspondent in Brussels. He also teaches courses on the European integration at the Department of International Relations of the Charles University Faculty of Social Sciences.
translator and literary theorist. Dr. Moravcová belongs to the youngest generation of Czech literary theorists. Despite her youth, she has quite substantial pedagogical experience, part of which she has acquired as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California at Berkeley (1996-97). Her scholarly interests in literature are accompanied by translation work. Her translation activities have been recognized by the Union of Czech Translators award, 1994.
EU affairs consultant and project manager. Martin Moravec, who graduated from the University of Economics in Prague, is a young expert in international relations, EU affairs and world economy. Professionally, he has been involved in the process of the Czech Republic’s accession to the European Union with special focus on the improvement of the Czech legal-business environment. Prior to his current position of an analyst of the Centre for European Integration of the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic he worked for the Europlatform Civic Association, a think tank specialized in EU affairs, and for the Euro-Czech Forum (ECF), a joint institution of the chambers of industry and commerce of EU member states in the Czech Republic.
Department of Psychology, Charles University, Prague and the Prague Psychiatric Center. Dr. Rodriguez is a specialist in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology. Her principal clinical expertise and practice is assessment and psychotherapy. The major area of her research is in psychotic disorders, cognitive functions and cognitive rehabilitation.
belongs to very promising and gifted specialists in Hebrew and Jewish Studies of the youngest generation in the Czech Republic. His main interest focuses on the traditional rabbinical literature starting with the Talmud and comments to it. His Ph.D. thesis is devoted to this topic. He lectures Jewish subjects such as traditional Hebrew literature and culture, history of Hebrew lettering, life and work of prominent Jewish personalities, both to Czech and foreign students at Charles University. He has been proving his high professional and teaching abilities also as an invited special lecturer of guided tours around Jewish sites in the Czech Republic.
Department of Journalism, Charles University Faculty of Social Sciences. Milan Šmíd is one of the leading Czech experts in TV broadcasting with expertise of a TV producer and scriptwriter. On regular basis, he has worked as consultant of the Czech Broadcasting Council. He is a Professor of Charles University School of Journalism and has an extensive experience in lecturing abroad and teaching American students.
Director of the Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic. Dr. Tůma is one of the most renowned Czech historians focusing on the post-war history of Czechoslovakia. His recent work deals with analysis of totalitarian regimes and mechanisms of their functioning. Various oral history projects were developed in the Institute of Contemporary History under his supervision. These projects mainly aim to reconstruct historical memory of the period after 1948 in Czechoslovakia.
Head of the Center of Oral History, Institute for Contemporary History CAS. Dr. Vaněk has worked as a Senior Researcher in ICH since 1992. In 2000, he gained experience with US university academic and students’ environment at UNC at Chapel Hill as a Visiting Professor. Dr. Vaněk serves as a Member of Scientific Council of the Institute for Contemporary History, as a Member of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin 98-Monthly for the nonprofit sector. His research focuses mainly on following topics: Environmental problems in Czechoslovakia 1969-1989, Student’s movement under socialism, Young generation in 80’s, and Oral history methods.
Senior Lecturer in English for Economics, University of Economics Prague; Czech Language Instructor and translator. She has taught English to Czech students since 1974 and Czech to non-native speakers since 1981. She graduated from Charles University in 1976, where her thesis was entitled The Neologisms in F.X.Šalda’s Critiques and in 1984 she received her doctorate in Language Teaching Methodology. In 1993 she attended a three-month course in teaching methodology at Wolverhampton University in England. She was a Fulbright Scholar in residence at Stanford University, where she taught Czech during the 1995-96 academic year. Over the years she has translated numerous publications. She also serves as a consultant at two foundations dedicated to publishing the works of the renowned Czech Jewish figures František Langer (dramatist, writer and journalist) and Gideon Klein (composer).
Junior Researcher, Centre of Economic Studies, University of Economics Prague. This young economist studied both Political Science and Economics. His PhD. research focuses on various political and economic factors of the Economic Policy, corruption issue, and issues linked with bureaucracy and governance quality/efficiency.
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