CEFRES Team of Researchers in 2022-2023
Michèle Baussant
Contact: michele.baussant(at)cnrs.fr
is a CNRS researcher appointed at CEFRES since February 2020 within the TANDEM program. She works with Johana Wyss on the TANDEM project she initiated as its PI: “Europe: a Resentful Confederation of Vanquished Peoples? Raw and Lapsed Memories of Post-Imperial (European) Minorities”; which contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1. She is ICM Fellow.
Anemona Constantin
Contact: anemona.constantin(@)cefres.cz
is from January 2022 a postdoctoral researcher at CEFRES benefitting from the support of Charles University in Prague. Her research project, entitled Romanian intellectuals and the debates on democracy in Central Eastern Europe in transnational perspective, contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.
Petr Gibas
Contact: petr.gibas(@)soc.cas.cz
is a scholar based at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology, where he specializes in (widely conceived) home studies at the intersection of anthropology and geography, explorations of the relationship between housing and home, and most recently also interdisciplinary studies of post-anthropocentric dwelling. Together with Chloé Mondémé, he pursues research within the TANDEM project titled Home beyond species: More-than-human dwelling in the age of crises.
Ronan Hervouet
Contact: ronan.hervouet(@)cefres.cz
Ronan Hervouet is a Professor of sociology at the University of Bordeaux and a member of the Centre Émile Durkheim (UMR 5116), since September 1st, 2021, he benefits from a temporary assignment at CEFRES by CNRS.
Chloé Mondémé
is a sociologist at the CNRS. With a background in linguistics, she is interested in all forms of (non-verbal) communication. A large part of her work is dedicated to the study of interspecies (human/animal) interactions. Analytically as well as theoretically, she is inspired by conversation analysis, ethnomethodology and the social studies of science. Together with Petr Gibas, she is investigator of the TANDEM project Home beyond species: More-than-human dwelling in the age of crises
Ange Pottin
Contact: ange.pottin(@)cefres.cz
Associated researchers
Daniel Baric
Contact: daniel_baric(at)yahoo.com
is a former associate professor at the Department of German studies of Tours University. He is currently working at the Department of Slavic studies of Sorbonne University and is since January 2019 associated to CEFRES. His researches focus on cultural transfers and interculturality in Central Europe, especially within the Habsburg Empire, and contributes to CEFRES research areas 1 and 3.
Zuzana Bártová
Contact : zbartova@tf.jcu.cz”.
is from april 2022 an associate researcher at CEFRES. Her research deals with managers and their attitude to personal development at the workplace. She analyzes their engagement as a new form of religion. Her researches contribute to CEFRES research area 1 and 3.
Lara Bonneau
Contact: bonneau@flu.cas.cz
is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (FLÚ – AV ČR) and since February 2023 an associate researcher at CEFRES. Her research focuses on the German Science of Art (Kunstwissenschaft) and more generally on the function of symbolic forms in the individuation process, drawing on the German (Cassirer), Czech (Patočka) and French (Simondon) traditions. Her work contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.
Hanna Chemerys
is an associate professor, head of the Department of Design of Zaporizhzhia National University, member of Ukrainian Design Union and from May 2023 is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. Her research project entitled Development of Methodology of Critical Thinking and Pedagogical Support to Counteract Disinformation and Manipulation of Artificially Reproduced Media Content contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.
Oksana Dovgopolova
is a professor at the Philosophy department at the Odesa І.І. Mechnikov National University and from May 2023 is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. Her research project entitled Transforming the Regional Identity in Odesa in Context of Russia-Ukraine War contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.
Mátyás Erdélyi
Contact: matyas.erdelyi(at)cefres.cz
was from January 2020 till December 2021 a postdoctoral researcher at CEFRES benefitting from the support of the Charles University in Prague. His research project, entitled Insurance, Banking, and Capitalist Modernity in the Late Habsburg Monarchy, contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.
Viacheslav Grekov
is a research assistant at the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology – Museum-cultural complex, NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, and from May 2023 is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. His research is called “National”, “Imperial”, “Loyal”: Ukrainian Studies of the History of Rus in the Russian Empire (1805–1860) and contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.
Anton Hauk
had a PhD in History. He is an anthropologist and an artist, and from May 2023 he is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. His research project entitled Gaming Practices in A Geopolitical Context, particularly in the Context of Wars contributes to CEFRES’s research area 3.
Yevhen Horb
is an independent researcher from Mariupol (Ukraine) and from May 2023 is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. His research project entitled Human Dimension of War: interactive Map contributes to CEFRES ‘s research area 3.
Igor Lyman
is Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Department of History and Philosophy at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, and from May 2023 is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. His research project entitled Mapping and Connecting Ukrainian Science Diaspora in France, Czech Republic, and Visegrád Countries contributes to CEFRES’s research area 3.
Joseph Neal Mangarella
holds a PhD in political anthropology from Leiden University (2019). His research interests include the intersections of extraction, environment, climate change and governance in and around the Congo Rainforest and Basin. He contributes to CEFRES’s research area 3.
Maria Maioroshi
holds a PhD in Historical Studies Lviv National University, Ukraine. She is Director of the Museum of University, an assistant Department of the History of Hungary and European integration Ukrainian-Hungarian educational institute of State University “Uzhhorod National University” (since 2022), and from May 2023 is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. Her research project entitled The Role of the Church in Society during the War contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.
Chiara Mengozzi
Contact: chiara.mengozzi(at)cefres.cz
is, after two years of post-doc at CEFRES, an associate researcher at CEFRES from January 2018. She contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.
Vincent Montenero
Contact: vincent.montenero(at)cefres.cz
is from September 2019 an associate researcher at CEFRES. His research project Interpersonal and inter-organizational relations within commercial and industrial organizations contributes to research area 1.
Vadym Osin
is an Associate Professor at the History and Political Theory Department Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Dnipro University of Technology, and from May 2023 he is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. His research project entitled Ukrainian Academy Under Fire: Politics of Knowledge in Russian-Ukrainian War contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.
Elina Paliichuk
is a Ph.D. holder in Linguistics and an Assistant Professor at the Linguistics and Translation Department of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University (Ukraine), and from May 2023 is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. Her research project entitled Changing Young Minds: Student Awareness of Human Trafficking under War Conditions contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.
Fedora Parkmann
was from January until December 2022 a post-doctoral researcher at CEFRES, in 2023, she remains associate researcher at CEFRES. Her research project, entitled „The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions of Art“ contributes to CEFRES’s research areas 1 and 2.
Kyrylo Polishchuk
is an Ukrainian writer, journalist, translator, PhD of philology, the laureate of many literary prizes, and the author of three fiction books. As an independent researcher, he focuses his attention on Ukrainian and Polish poetry of the 20th century, on the themes of war, resettlement and trauma. From May 2023 he is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. His project, Eclectic of Memory, contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.
Nataliia Romanyshyn
is an Associate professor of the Department of Applied Linguistics at Lviv Polytechnic National Universityn, and from May 2023 is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. Her research project entitled Discursive (De)construction of Ukrainian National Identity: From Totalitarianism to Democracy contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.
Františka Schormová
contact: frantiska.zezulakova.schormova@cefres.cz
is from 2021 an associated researcher at CEFRES, and currently working on the publication of her PhD thesis defended in December 2020, which title is for now Prague, Red and Black: Early Cold War Journeys, Networks, and Poems. Her researches contribute to CEFRES research area 1.
Igor Serdiuk
is a professor of the department of History of Ukraine of Poltava National Pedagogical University. Author of several books on the history of early modern Ukraine, from May 2023 he is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. His project, Between Stigma and Legitimation: Illegitimate Birth in Ukraine in the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.
Clément Steuer
Contact: steuer(@)iir.cz
is from May 2021 associate researcher at CEFRES. His research deals whith political parties systems in the Midle East and in North Africa. He contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.
Josef Šebek
Contact: josef.sebek(@)ff.cuni.cz
Alessandro Testa
Contact: alessandro.testa@fsv.cuni.cz
is Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University, Prague, where since 2020 he has also led the ERC CZ “ReEnchEu” research project. As an associated researcher at CEFRES since January 2022, he contributes to research areas 1 and 3.
Yevhenii Tkachenko
is an Associate Professor at the Department of Constitutional Law of Ukraine, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. His professional interests are public authority and power, human rights, rights of minorities, national and ethnic relations, citizenship and civic engagement and interactive teaching. Since 2022 he is co-founder and member of the “Civic Educators’ Association” NGO (Ukraine). From May 2023 he is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences.
Natalia Tsybuliak
is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Psychology and Speech Therapy at the Faculty of Preschool, Special, and Social Education at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, Ukraine. She specializes in researching the values of teaching and learning in higher education institutions during times of crisis, providing psychological support to participants in the educational process at higher education institutions, and studying the impact of the full-scale war in Ukraine on different groups of people. From May 2023 she is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. Her research entitled Internal Isolation of Displaced Persons contributes to the CEFRES Research Area 1.
Virginie Vaté
Contact: Virginie.vate(at)cnrs.fr
is a CNRS researcher. She was appointed at CEFRES from February 2018 until August 2020 within the TANDEM program, working on a research project entitled “Bewildering Boar: Changing Cosmopolitics of the Hunt in Europe and Beyond” with Ludĕk Brož.
Julien Wacquez
Contact : julien.wacquez(@)gmail.com
Julien Wacquez is a sociologist currently affiliated with the Labex Les passés dans le présent at the university of Paris Nanterre University in France, as a postdoctoral researcher. His work focuses on the epistemic values of science fiction literature, speculative writing, futurology, and the scientific uses of science fiction through history. And it contributes to CEFRES´s research area 1.
Dmytro Yanov
is a senior scientific fellow at the sector of numismatics, Odesa archaeological museum, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He specializes in numismatics of Ottoman Empire and other Medieval Islamic States, history of currency circulation in Ukraine in the 14th – 17th centuries. From May 2023 he is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. His research project entitled Export of Cultural Property from Ukraine before and during the Full-scale Russian invasion: Analysis of the Legislative Framework, Practises of Expertise of Cultural Property, and Issues Regarding Evacuation Abroad contributes to CEFRES research area 1.
Nataliia Zachosova
is a scientist, researcher and professor at Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy (Ukraine). She graduated in finance (MA), received a PhD at «KROK» University in Kyiv and held a position of senior lecturer, then associate professor and professor in different higher educational establishments in Cherkasy between 2008 and 2023. From May 2023 she is part of CEFRES non-residential fellowship for Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences. Her research project entitled The Role of Education in the Security Oriented Economic Behavior of Individuals Under the Risk of Displacement in BANI World contributes to CEFRES research area 1.