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Faculty / Spring 2009 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.
Director of the Institute of Geology, Academy of Science, Czech Republic.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). He belongs to top experts in Pragensia studies. History of Prague, its mythology and archeology belong to his core research and publishing activities fields.
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.
Chair, Institute for Social and Economic Analyses, Senior Public Affairs Consultant. Prior to his current position, Tomás 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, Vice-Chairman of the Czech Committee for Nazi Victims and a member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Translator, gender studies scholar, publicist, musician. Taught at the Pedagogical Faculty, Charles University in 1990-1999. Writes on gender topics. For twenty years, she performed original music as a member of an all women´s rock band, ZUBY NEHTY. They have produced five albums, five soundtracks for theatrical performances, two books of poetry, and a film for television. Since 1991, she has served as a member of the Board of the Gender Studies Centre in Prague. In 1998 she was affiliated as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Instructor of Czech.She has been focusing on teaching Czech to native speakers of English. He has a quite extensive experience at this work. She worked as instructor of Czech for Peace Corps Czech Republic and for many major international companies and institutions (Citibank, Procter&Gamble, 3M, Midland Bank, KPMG, British Telecom, Reiters, etc.). As a instructor of Czech at CHP she has been very successful and efficient. She co-authored two volume Czech course textbook used at CHP.
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. 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.
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 religious studies and philosophy.
Journalist and 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. 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.
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. He gained experience working in the Europlatform Civic Association, a think tank specialized in EU affairs, for the Euro-Czech Forum (ECF), a joint institution of the chambers of industry and commerce of EU member states in the Czech Republic, and for the Centre for European Integration of the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic.
Institute for Near East and African Studies, Charles University.Specialist in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies, Charles University. He 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.
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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