Research Areas

• Philanthropy

• Volunteering

• Civil Society

• Gift and Giving

• Discourse Analysis, Grounded Theory, Case Study Research  

Courses

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Contact Information and Office Hours

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Education

• 2004: Ph.D., Sociology, Charles University, Prague

• 2000: MA, International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

• 1998: Mgr., Sociology, Charles University, Prague

• 1995: Bc., Sociology and Social Policy, Charles University, Prague

Work Experience

• 2004–present: assistant professor, Civil Society Studies Department, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

• 2003–2005: researcher, Civil Society Development Foundation

• 2001–2004: junior researcher, Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University/Czech Academy of Sciences

• 1998–1999: project assistant, EU PHARE program PALMIF, National Training Fund

• 1996–1997: research assistant, Sociological Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences

Fellowships

• 2002: Junior research fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria

Memberships

• 2016–present: Member of the editorial board of Voluntaristics Review (Brill)

• 2012–present: Member of the academic board of the PhD. program Civil Sector Studies, Charles University

• 2017, 2016: Member of evaluation panel, Křesadlo award for volunteers in Prague

• 2014–2016: Chair of the executive committee of the Fund for Non-Governmental Organizations (EEA and Norway Grants)

• 2015: Member of the working group preparing the “Concept of state policy towards non-state non-profit organizations” (Czech Government Council for Non-state Non-profit Organizations, Czech Government Office)

Publications (Eng)

• Pospíšilová, T. (2014). Transnational Philanthropy and Nationalism: The Early Years of Central European University, Monde(s) No. 6: 126 – 146.

• Sivesind, K. H., Pospíšilová T., Frič P. (2013). Does Volunteering Cause Trust?, European Societies 15(1): 106-130.

• Pospíšilová, T. (2012). Nonprofit Management Education in the Czech Republic: The Struggle for Civil Society Versus the Struggle for Survival, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 41(2): 325-341.

• Pospíšilová, T. (2011). Grassroots Volunteering: Definitions, Concepts and Themes. Praha: Agora CE, o.p.s.