Research Areas

• History of Early Modern Europe (17^th–18^th century)

• History of Peasant Society, Criminality, Non-sedentary People

• Enlightenment and Modernity

• History of State Administration, Police and Order Concepts and Techniques (18^th–19^th century)

Courses

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Contact Information and Office Hours

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Education

• 2003: obtained the title „Doktor der Philosophiae“ (Dr. phil.)

• September 1999: doctoral examination: Modern history, East European history, Western Slavonic philology (grade: “magna cum laude”)

• 1994–1999: Doctor degree program at Saarland University in Saarbrücken (doctoral scholarship DAAD, support via Graduiertenkolleg „Interkulturelle Kommunikation in kulturhistorischer Perspektive“);  

• 1989–1994: Master degree program in History and Czech philology at the Pedagogical Faculty of University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (graduation in June 1994, Mgr.); 1992 - 1994 study of Cultural history at the same place (unfinished)

Work Experience

• 2014–present: Associate professor of history at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague

• 2012–2015: Head of the Departement of General Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague

• 2004–2014: Lecturer at The Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague

• 2013: Visiting teacher at École des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris

• 2011: Visiting teacher (Erasmus LLP) at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

• 2010–2011: External lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno

• 2002–2003: Researcher at The Center for The Study of Personal and Ethnicity Development at The Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague

• 1999–2002: Member of The Institute of Classical Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Stays Abroad

• 2006–2007: 6-month study stay (the scholarship of the city of Paris) in Centre des recherches historiques (EHESS-MSH), Paris, France

• 2000, 2004: 3-month study stays (scholarship „Mellon-Foundation“) in Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, France

Memberships

• Member of the Editorial board (2008-2015 editor-in-chief) "Dějiny-Teorie-Kritika"

• 2008–2010: Member of a broader Editorial board of the Journal Crime, Histoire & Sociétés/Crime, History & Societies

Publications

• Die „armben Leüte“ und die Macht. Die Untertanen der südböhmischen Herrschaft Český Krumlov/Krumau im Spannunngfeld zwischen Gemeinde, Obrigkeit und Kirche (1680-1781), Stuttgart 2003 (monograph)

• Zrození vagabunda. Neusedlí lidé v Čechách 17. a 18. století [The Birth of the Vagabond. Non-sedentary People in 17th and 18th-century Bohemia], Praha 2007 (monograph)

• „Miluji tvory svého pohlaví“. Homosexualita v dějinách a společnosti českých zemí [„I love creatures of my own sex“. Homosexuality in history and society of Czech Lands], Praha 2013 (co-editor with Jan Seidl and Franz Schindler)

• Sesshaft gemacht. Möglichkeiten, Mechanismen und Grenzen der (erzwungenen) Integration der vagierenden Bevölkerung in den böhmischen Ländern im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, in: Die Gesellschaft der Nichtsesshaften. Zur Lebenswelt vagierender Schichten vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert, ed. Gerhard Fritz, Affalterbach 2013, pp. 93-106.

• « Une machine merveuilleuse » de police dans la monarchie des Habsbourg dans les années 1770 et 1780, in: Christine Lebeau, Wolfgang Schmale (dir.), Images en capitale:  Vienne, fin XVIIe – début XIXe siècles, Bochum, Dr. Winkler, 2011, pp. 303-315

• Milost místo smrti (v procesech s Cikány v Čechách první poloviny 18. století) aneb Jak nepočítat historii [Reprieve Instead of Death (in Trials of Gypsies in Bohemia in the First Half of the 18th century) or how not to Count History], in: Dějiny – Teorie – Kritika 2005/1, pp. 7-43.