Mgr. Olga Nešporová, Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * Olga NEŠPOROVÁ, assistant professor ****************************************************************************************** Department of Historical Studies [ URL "FHSENG-1069.html "] *========================================================================================= * Research Areas *========================================================================================= • Burial and funeral rites in the present and the 20th century • Attitudes toward death, ideas about the afterlife • Critical heritage studies • Sociology of the family - parenting, intergenerational relations, the elderly • Family and social policy *========================================================================================= * Contact Information and Office Hours *========================================================================================= See SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/kdojekdo/index.php?do=detailuc&kuc=15211"] . E-mail: nesporova(zavinac)eu.cas.cz [ MAIL "nesporova(zavinac)eu.cas.cz"] Tel.: 224 271 423 Tel.: +420 222 828 604 (EÚ AV ČR) ORCID: http s://orcid.org/0000-0001-6506-9533 [ URL "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6506-9533 Google Scholar [ URL "https://scholar.google.cz/citations?user=587JCC4AAAAJ&hl=cs& Research Gate [ URL "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olga-Nesporova/research"] *========================================================================================= * Courses *========================================================================================= See SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/predmety/index.php?do=ucit&kod=80038"] . *========================================================================================= * Education *========================================================================================= • 2008: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, PhD. in anthropology • 2004: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, M. A. in social anthropology • 2001: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, B. A. in humanities Work Experi • 2024–present: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, assistant professor • 2019–present: Institute of Ethnology of the CAS, researcher, head of Department of Criti Studies • 2004–present: Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs, researcher • 2003–2015: Institute of Sociology of the CAS, cooperation on research projects *========================================================================================= * Foreign Fellowship *========================================================================================= 2003 – 2004: J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main *========================================================================================= * Memberships *========================================================================================= • Since 2023: Association of Critical Heritage Studies • Since 2023: International Society for Ethnology and Folklore • Since 2022: International Cemetery Research Group • 2015–2018: European Sociological Association • 2013–2017, again since 2023: Grant Agency of Czech Republic, member of panel 404 – Socio demography, social geography and media studies • Since 2012 TransPARENT - International research network for studies of the transition to *========================================================================================= * Selected Publications *========================================================================================= • Nešporová, O. – Tóth, H. 2023. Communist Funeral Reform in Central Europe (1948–1989): F Civil Funerals in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. OMEGA—Journal of Death and Dying, 87(2): 3 • Nešporová, O. 2023. A Century of Funeral Change in Burial Practices: From Church Burial Without a Ceremony. Ethnological/Journal Český Lid, 110 (2): 127-156. • Nešporová, Olga. 2021. Funerary Practices in the Czech Republic. Bingley: Emerald Publis • Nešporová, O. 2019. Hazy Transition to Fatherhood: The Experiences of Czech Fathers. Jou Issues, 40 (2): 143-166. • Nešporová, O. 2019. Non-normative parents in the gender- traditional Czech Republic. In Evertsson, M. New parents in Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 207-224. • Nešporová, O. – Janurová, K. 2018. Working Fathers and Childcare in the Czech Republic. – Santero, A. Fathers, Childcare and Work: Cultures, Practices and Policies. Bingley: Em Limited, pp. 103–128. • Nesporova, O. – Stuchla, R. 2016. Constructions of Parenthood in The Czech Republic: Mat Paternal Help. In Grunow, Daniela - Evertsson, Marie. Couples´ transitions to parenthood Edward Elgar, pp. 243-265. • Nešporová, O. 2016. The Initial Years of Motherhood and Fatherhood as Perceived by Expec The Division of Care and Paid Work. Social Studies, 13 (4): 9-25. • Nesporova, O. – Stahl, I. 2014. Roadside memorials in the Czech Republic and Romania: Me religion in two European post-communist Countries. Mortality, 19 (1): 22-40. • Nešporová, O. 2013. O smrti a pohřbívání. [On Death and Burial.] Brno: Centrum pro studi kultury. • Nešporová, O. 2007. Believer Perspectives on Death and Funeral Practices in a Non-believ Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 43 (6): 1175-1193.