About Me
I am a historian and journalist based in Vienna and Prague. I currently hold a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Vienna. My dissertation was on radio listening and reporting in socialist Czechoslovakia. My second project tells the global history of socialist Czechoslovakia through its arms trade.
My research interests include oral history, science, technology and society studies, media history, sound studies and migration.
Film
Production Company | Project Name | 2023
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Production Company | Project Name | 2023
Lead Actor
Production Company | Project Name | 2023
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Education
New York University | Modern European History | 2013-2019
PhD - "Red Tape and Hot Media: Radio, Politics, and Socialist Celebrity in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969"
New York University | History | 2015
MPhil
Oxford University | Language and Literature | 2002-2006
MA, BA (Hons) in Czech with Slovak and French
Masaryk University, Brno | Czech Language and Literature | 2004
Graduate of Czech for Foreigners Programme
Charles University, Prague | Czech Language | 2004
Summer School Graduate
2010 - present
Professional Experience
Vaclav Havel Library Foundation | New York | 2015-2019
Consultant and Interviewer, Havel Conversations Oral History Project
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation | New York | 2014
Oral History Interviewer
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library | Cedar Rapids, IA | 2009-2013
Czech Television | Prague | 2008-2009
Editor for English Language Programme "A Phrase a Day"
Radio Prague | Prague | 2007-2009
Reporter
ARCHnetwork | Comrie, Scotland | 2006-2007
Management of EU Cultural Heritage Projects
2010 - present
Awards
University of Vienna | Austria | 2024-2027
Principal Investigator, FWF - GA ČR WEAVE Grant
Linking Arms: Central Europe's Weapons Sector, 1954-1994
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History | Potsdam | 2022
Summer Fellowship
University of Vienna | Austria | 2020-2023
REWIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship
Austrian Cultural Forum | New York | 2019
German Studies Association Travel Grant
New York University | 2018-2019
Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Collegium Carolinum | Munich, Germany | 2018
Visiting Scholarship
Lund University | 2018
Masaryk Institute | Prague | 2017
Dobrovsky Fellowship
New York University | Prague | 2017
Global Research Initiative Fellowship
New York University | Prague | 2016
Global Research Initiative Fellowship
Open Society Archives | Budapest | 2016
Visegrad Scholarship
New York University | 2015
Mellon Pre-Dissertation Summer Scholarship
Columbia University | New York | 2014
National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarship
New York University | 2013-2018
McCracken Fellowship
Oxford University | 2006
Pathfinder Scholarship
References
Available on request.