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Faculty / Spring 2005 Faculty of Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis consists of prominent Czech and internationally recognized social scientists. They are drawn form a variety of academic and research institutions, Charles University, Czech Academy of Scinces, Central European University among them.
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.
Chair of Department of Czech Literature, Charles University Assistant Professor of Czech Literature, Charles University. Dr. Bílek belongs among prominent Czech literary theorists and historians of young generation. He has published two books, "Generace" osamelych bezcu, Prague 1991, and Stavitele kridel, Prague 1991, dealing with contemporary poetry, along with a number of articles in Czech, English, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, and Slovak. He received his Ph.D. from Charles University in 1994 (dissertation Lyricky subjekt published in 1997) and has taught there since 1991. In 1994-1995, he was a Visiting Professor at Brown University. In 1994 he received a Mellon Post Doctoral Scholarship to continue his research there. He returned to the Brown University as a Visiting Professor in Spring 2000. He has lectured in Hamburg, Uppsala and Stockholm, Budapest, Florida International University at Miami, Columbia, Yale and Brown Universities.
Senior Research Fellow, Chairman of the Department of Exogenous Geology and Geochemistry, Institute of Geology ASCR. He 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 Pragen-sia 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 North-western 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 fea-ture 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.
Executive Director of the Euro-Czech Forum. Dr. Greger is a renown expert in international relations who specializes in European law and legal aspects of the EU. During the affiliation process he acted as a legal advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, later at the Delegation of the European Commission. He organizes and participates in conferences, seminars and publications on issues associated with the Czech accession to the EU. Apart from his active engagement in the politics, he teaches courses in European Studies at various institutions.
Charles University, is a prominent representative of the young Czech generation of anthropologists. He is an assistant researcher and lecturer at the Department of General Anthropology, Charles University in Prague. His research focuses on issues of country border area studies, social memory, emergence and nature of ethnic and national identities and their role in politics. Specifically he has dealt in his publications with case study of Teschen - Silesia region. He teaches courses in nationalism(s) and politics of (national) identity.
Chair of the Prague Jewish Community. Tomas Jelínek is a young economist who gained an extensive experience with issues of post-communist economic systems transformation during his research work at OECD in Paris, at CERGE - Charles University in Prague, as well as in his position of an advisor to the Minister of Finances. Recently, he served as an economics expert in the Political department of the Office of the President of the Czech Republic in years 1996 - 2001. In 2001, he was appointed Chair of the Prague Jewish Community.
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 Lukes, 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, Reiters, 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. Her priority orientation is in clinical psychology. She has worked in private psychological ambulances and sanatorium and 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 re-nowned 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. Kucera 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.
Lecturer of Czech language. Most recently Lector in Czech at School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London. He is a co-author (with Jitka Kauerova) of Czech Communicative Textbook and Yellow Pages of Czech. He has worked for the United States Peace Corps in a number of countries as Regional Language Specialist and trainer, most recently in Kazakhstan and Romania. He has a long-held interest in the use of new technologies in language teaching and education. He has developed and maintains an online resource for students of Czech language and culture at http://www.bohemica.com, including an expanding online course and a culture guide. His other interests include linguistics, and intercultural and adult education, he participates in international conferences related to these topics. He regularly publishes articles on culture, language and education in Lidové Noviny (a leading Czech daily).
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 sys-tems 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 re-ligious studies and philosophy.
translator and literary theorist. Dr. Moravcova belongs to the youngest generation of Czech literary theorists. Despite her youth, she has quite a 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 with translation work. Her translation activities have been recognized by the Union of Czech Translators award, 1994.
Professor of Urban Studies, Central European University, President of European Association for Sociology. Dr. Musil is among the most prominent and internationally renowned Czech urban and regional sociologists. He graduated from Charles University (sociology and philosophy) and his major studies deal with cultural aspects of cities, internal socio-spatial structures of cities in different societies and cultures, and processes of urbanization. Dr. Musil has published twelve books, four of them in English, Polish, Italian and Hungarian. He has taught at London School of Economics, Graduate School of the New School for Social Research in New York, and University of Hannover, Germany, among others. After 1989, he played a decisive role in the creation of the Central European University and served as its first Academic Director in Prague (1991-1995). Dr. Musil is a founding member of the Czech Learned Society and a member of the Academia Europaea in London.
Specialist in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies, Charles University. Pavel Sladek belongs to the youngest generation of researchers of the field. In focus of his interest is namely traditional rabbinical literature starting with the Talmud and commentaries to it. He teaches course in Hebrew literature and culture, history of Hebrew lettering, and life and work of prominent Jewish individuals, both in Czech and English.
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Chairperson of Institute for Near East and African Studies. Dr. Sedinovais a specialist in early Bohemian and Moravian Jewish literature, focusing on Hebrew narrative prose and poetry. She has published numerous articles (in Czech, English, German, Russian, and French) dealing with Jewish and Hebrew Studies, and has edited/translated into Czech texts from both classical and modern Hebrew literature. Dr. Sedinova received her Ph.D. degree from Charles University (chapters from her MA and Ph.D. dissertations, "David Gans and His Hebrew Chronicle", and "'Zemah David' and Hebrew Lyrico-Epical Poetry in Bohemia and Moravia in the First Half of the 17th Century" appeared in English in Judaica Bohemiae, published by the Prague Jewish Museum). Since 1969 she has taught Hebrew at the State Language School in Prague and since 1999 she has offered regular courses on Jewish history, customs, culture, and literature at Charles University.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Charles University. Dr. Sipek is one of the leading specialists in Czech Clinical Psychology. In his clinical practice, he applies integrated psychotherapy training, cognitive behavioral therapy training, hypnosis training, and psychoanalysis. However, his research interests reach out beyond the limits of clinical psychology. Recently he has published a groundbreaking book on issues of geopsychology.
Director of the Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic. Dr. Tuma is one of the most renowned Czech historians focusing on the post-war history of Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic. 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. Vanek has worked as a Senior Researcher in ICH since 1992. In 2000, Dr. Vanìk gained experience with US university academic and students' environment at UNC at Chapel Hill as a Visiting Professor. He has published four books. Dr. Vanek 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.Salda'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 Frantisek Langer (dramatist, writer and journalist) and Gideon Klein (composer).
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