Josefina Formanová
Contact: josefina.formanova(@)cefres.cz
is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Her PhD thesis, entitled Philosophy of Failure: Negativity and Error in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, contributes to CEFRES research area 2. She received a CEFRES Platform fellowship for the academic year 2024–2025.
Vera Guseynova
Contact: vera.guseynova[@]cefres.cz
Is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris). Her PhD project entitled The Internationalization of Russian Art, 1957–1991: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Artistic Transfers and Circulations, the Case of Unofficial Art contributes to CEFRES research areas 1 et 2. She received a „France & Visegrád“ fellowship for the academic year 2024–2025.
Kajetán Holeček
Contact: kajetan.holecek[@]cefres.cz
is a doctoral candidate in Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. His PhD dissertation, entitled Jews in Cheb (Eger) in the High and Late Middle Ages, contributes to CEFRES Research area 3. He received a CEFRES Platform fellowship for the academic year 2024–2025.
Dominik Kulcsár
Contact: dominik.kulcsar[@]cefres.cz
is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV). His PhD dissertation, entitled The Philosophical Concept of Rebellion: Albert Camus and the Spirit of Anarchy, contributes to CEFRES research area 2. He received a CEFRES–SAV fellowship for the academic year 2024–2025.
Anastasia Mamaeva
Contact: anastasia.mamaeva(@)cefres.cz
is a doctoral candidate in film and Central European studies at Sorbonne University (UMR Eur’ORBEM). Her PhD thesis entitled References to French, American and British Popular Cultures in Czechoslovak Cinema, 1969–1982, contributes to CEFRES research area 2. She received a CEFRES “France & Visegrád“ fellowship for the academic year 2024–2025.
Seema Sridhar
Contact: seema.sridhar[@]cefres.cz
is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at the Central European University (CEU). Her project, entitled Agency and Emancipation: A Decolonial Analysis of the Lived Experience of Hazara Women in Exile in Europe, contributes to CEFRES research area 1. She received a CEFRES–CEU fellowship for the academic year 20024–2025.
Associated PhD students 2023–2024
Julien Allavena
is PhD candidate in Political Science at the University Paris 8 (Cresppa-Labtop). His PhD project, entitled “From a Party Truth to a Class Truth”: Picture of Operaismo in Heresy (1956–1969) contributes to CEFRES research areas 1 & 2.
Valentin Auger
Contact: valentin.auger[@]ff.cuni.cz
is PhD candidate in History at the Institute of Economic and Social History (ÚHSD) of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. His PhD project, entitled The Quest for a Lost Meaning: Work and Workers in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia. A Story of Flying Literature, contributes to CEFRES Research area 1.
Jelena Božović
Contact: jelena.bozovic(@)cefres.cz
is a PhD student in linguistics at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. Her research, entitled The interplay between official and unofficial language policies in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina contributes to the CEFRES research areas 1 and 2.
She was granted a CEFRES Platform Fellowship.
Adéla Bricínová
Contact: ad.bricinova(@)gmail.com
is a PhD student in cotutelle between the Charles University (Prague) and the École pratique des hautes études (Paris), under the supervision of Richard Biegel and Sabine Frommel. Her dissertation, entitled: Modern French Architecture in the Context of Czech and East-Central European Nineteenth-Century Architecture, contributes to CEFRES research area 1.
Joséphine Brive
Contact: brivejosephine(@)gmail.com
is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at the University of Bordeaux. Her research project, entitled Winning the Battle of Ideas in Europe. Production and Circulation of Ideas on Ukraine in a War Context (France and Czechia), contributes to CEFRES research area 1.
Kateřina Fuksová
Contact: katerina.fuksova(@)fsv.cuni.cz
is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology and History at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague. Her research, entitled Chisinau : The Making of Neoliberal City. Identities, Memories and Aspirations after the post-Socialist Transformation contributes to CEFRES research area 3. She was granted a CEFRES Platform PhD Fellowships.
Astrid Greve Kristensen
is a PhD student at Sorbonne University, Paris, under the supervision of Clara Royer. Her dissertation is entitled Strangers in a Strange Land. The Returns of Orphans in Czech Literature of the 2000’s, and contributes to CEFRES research area 3.
Olga Kalashnikova
Contact: Kalashnikova_Olga(@)phd.ceu.edu
is a PhD candidate at the Central European University in Vienna. Her PhD dissertation, entitled Preaching the Passion in 14th-century Bohemia: The rhetoric of Good Friday sermons contributes to CEFRES research area 2. She was granted a France & Visegrád PhD Fellowship at CEFRES.
Anna Kuszmiruk
Contact: annakuszmiruk@gmail.com
is a PhD student in philosophy at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun under the supervision of Mark Sinclair (Queen’s University Belfast). Her dissertation entitled A Philosophical Critique of the Concept of Time in 20th-century Physics: Henri Bergson and the Relativity Theory contributes to the CEFRES research area 3.
Jan Musil
Contact: me[@]janmusil.net
is PhD candidate in Literature at the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague). His PhD project entitled Thanatographies and the Modes of Literary Mourning contributes to CEFRES Research area 2.
Florence Vychytil-Baudoux
Contact: florence.vychytil-baudoux(@)cefres.cz
is a PhD student at the EHESS (Paris) under the supervision of Nancy L. Green. Her dissertation in history, entitled Between Citizenship, Ethnicity and the Politics of Exile: The Logics of Polonia‘s Political Integration in France, the United States and Canada, 1945–1980, contributes to CEFRES research area 1.
Anabela Zigova
Contact: Anabela.Zigova@etu.univ-paris1.fr
is PhD Candidate at L’école doctorale d’Histoire, Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne, SIRICE – Unité mixte de recherches (CNRS UMR 8138). His PhDdissertation, entitled Invisible violence within dissidence au féminin, contributes to the CEFRES research area 2 and 3.
Emina Zoletic
is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Warsaw University. Her PhD dissertation, entitled Intergenerational transmission of the memory of the war: The Cases of Families in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Bosnian diaspora in Europe contributes to CEFRES research area 1. She was granted a Young Researcher Fellowships at the CEFRES in 2022–2023.
PhD Fellows Team 2023–2024
PHD Fellows Team 2022–2023
PHD Fellows Team 2021–2022
PhD Fellows Team 2020–2021
PhD Fellows Team 2019–2020
PhD Fellows Team 2018–2019
PhD Fellows Team 2017–2018
PhD Fellows Team 2016–2017
PhD Fellows Team 2015–2016