Lenka Jakoubková Budilová

Social anthropologist. She carried out fieldwork in northwestern Bulgaria and in Roma settlements in Slovakia. She has long been interested in the anthropology of the family and kinship, the anthropology of the Balkans and, in recent years, the consequences of depopulation in the peripheral parts of Europe.

Field of interest: sociocultural anthropology; anthropology of kinship; Czech villages in southeastern Europe; anthropology of the Balkans; depopulation

Courses

See SIS

Education

• 2022  Habilitation in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

• 2010    PhD. in Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen  

• 2005    Mgr. in General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

• 2003    Bc. in Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

Employment

• 2023 –present Faculty of Humanities, Charles University (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

• 2017–2023   Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Institute of Ethnology)

• 2009–2019     Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia (Department of Anthropology)

Grants and scientific projects

2023–2025 Heritage in Depopulated European Areas (HerInDep, No 9F23001), The Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPI CH).

2023–2025 Identity Dynamics in the Danube Region (based on the Example of Vidin, Lom and Kozloduy), Multilateral Competition for Scientific and Technological Cooperation in the Danube Region (8X23006).

2022 Field practice at the Institute of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Cherepish Monastery. Depopulation in Northwest Bulgaria (POINT/Aii/2021-1-007, Charles University).

2020 The potential of cultural and creative industries for the development of rural and peripheral areas. University of Aberdeen/Shetland Islands, United Kingdom (FM/c/2020-X-015, Charles University).

2010-2012 Complex research of the community of (ex)Voyvodovo Czechs and the transformations of its identity. P405/10/0471 (co-investigator M. Jakoubek), Czech Science Foundation.

2008  Kinship and family in Gypsy/Roma settlements in Eastern Slovakia, International Visegrad Fund.

Selected publications

Articles and book chapters

Budilová, Lenka J. – Marek Jakoubek (2025). Geographies of Sharing and the East/West Divide in Europe. The Case of HomeExchange, Balkanistic worlds 1 (1): 90–115.

https://balkanistica.com/lenka-j-budilova/

Jakoubková Budilová, Lenka – Jakoubek, Marek (2024) Fieldwork? Better not: Ethics bureaucracy in Eastern Europe, Anthropology Today 2/40: 11–13.

https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1111/1467-8322.12873

Jakoubková Budilová, Lenka (2023) Česká příbuzenská terminologie v diaspoře: případ Vojvodovo (Bulharsko), Slovo a Slovesnost 3/84: 224–247. DOI: 10.58756/s2338431

Jakoubková Budilová, Lenka (2023) Contemporary Research on the Czech Compatriots in South-Eastern Europe, Národopisná revue 5/2023: 41–55.

https://revue.nulk.cz/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/r5-2023.pdf#page=43

Jakoubková Budilová, Lenka (2020). Endogamy between ethnicity and religion. Marriage and boundary construction in Voyvodovo (Bulgaria), 1900–1950, The History of the Family 25/1: 46–69. DOI: 10.1080/1081602X.2019.1641132

Jakoubková Budilová, Lenka (2020). Bilateral kinship and biogenetic substance in the Balkans. The case of Voyvodovo, Bulgaria (1900–1950), Ethnologica Slovaca et Slavica 41: 27–50.

Jakoubková Budilová, Lenka (2020). The Child in the Family in the Old Demographic Regime. The Case of Voyvodovo, Czech Village in Bulgaria (1900-1950), In P. Bankova – M. Janning – A. Le Guennec – E. Tsaneva – V. Periklieva (eds.), Sociocultural Dimensions of Childhood. Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 67–77.

Jakoubková Budilová, Lenka (2019). Mléčné příbuzenství jako alternativní strategie příbuzenství na Balkáně. In D. Bittnerová – M. Moravcová (eds.), Etnické komunity – neviditelní, přehlížení zapomenutí. Praha: FHS UK, 81–106.

Monographs and edited volumes

Jakoubek, Marek – Budilová, Lenka J. (2023). Living In Two Worlds – Bulgarian Czechs in The Village of Voyvodovo. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Budilová, Lenka (2019). Od krevní msty k postsocialismu. Vývoj antropologického zájmu o Balkán. Brno: CDK.

Budilová, Lenka, J. – Jakoubek, Marek (2017). Bulgarian Protestants and the Czech village of Voyvodovo, Sofia: New Bulgarian University.

Budilová, Lenka J. – Kňourek, B. (2015). Dům ve Vojvodovu. Stavebně-historický vývoj, kulturní a sociální rozměr. Brno: CDK.

Fatková, G. – J. Budilová, L. – Kouba, M. – Pavlásek, M. – Štěpánek, V. (2012). Balkán a nacionalismus. Labyrintem nacionální ideologie. Brno: Porta Balkanica.

Budilová, Lenka J. (2011). Dědická praxe, sňatkové strategie a pojmenovávání u bulharských Čechů v letech 1900-1950. Brno: CDK.