Adam Aksnowicz
is a doctoral candidate in History at the Central European University in Vienna. His doctoral thesis Towards What Homeland? (Trans)National Armies in Exile and Renegotiations of Polish and Czechoslovak National Narratives, 1938-48, contributes to to CEFRES research area 1. He received a CEFRES–CEU fellowship for the academic year 2025–2026.
Dominika Drobná
is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the Comenius Unversity Bratislava. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Theory and Practice of Architecture in Bratislava around 1800, contributes to to CEFRES research area 3. She received a CEFRES– Fif UK fellowship for the academic year 2025–2026.
Garance Fromont
is a doctoral candidate in Film Studies at the Université Paris Cité. Her doctoral thesis Too loud a freedom: emergence of a Cinematographic New Wave in communist Czechoslovakia (1956-1968) contributes to CEFRES research areas 1 & 3. She received a „France-Visegrád“ fellowship for the academic year 2025–2026.
Ruslana Koziienko
is a doctoral candidate in Social Antropology at the Central European University in Vienna. Her doctoral thesis The effects and affects of the (im)mobility of men during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine contributes to CEFRES research area 2. She received a „France-Visegrád“ fellowship for the academic year 2025–2026.
Nina Papcunová
is a doctoral candidate in Slovak Literature at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava Her doctoral thesis, entitled Nature in Modernism, contributes to to CEFRES research area 3. She received a CEFRES– SAV fellowship for the academic year 2025–2026.
Markus Pollak
is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at the Central European University in Vienna. His doctoral thesis Evaluating Democracies: International Election Observers and the Contestation of Liberal Ordering contributes to to CEFRES research areas 1 & 2. He received a CEFRES–CEU fellowship for the academic year 2025–2026.
Sophie Raehme
is a doctoral candidate in Gender Studies at the Central European University in Vienna. His doctoral thesis Visualizing Resistance: The Traveling Graffiti “Las Cuchas Tienen la Razón” and the Ghostly Presence of Forcibly Disappeared Colombians in Europe contributes to to CEFRES research area 3. She received a CEFRES–CEU fellowship for the academic year 2025–2026.
Michaela Rumpíková
is a doctoral candidate in French Literature at the Charles University and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Jeunes filles en devenir : lecture phénoménologique du récit de formation écrits à la première personne, contributes to CEFRES research area 2. She received a CEFRES Platform fellowship for the academic year 2025–2026.
Sabina Vassileva
is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the Charles University. Her doctoral thesis Gender of metabolism: enacting sexed bodies at the intersection of metabolic and sex hormones contributes to CEFRES research area 2. She received a CEFRES Platform fellowship for the academic year 2025–2026.
Andrej Vašíček
is a doctoral candidate in History at the Comenius Unversity Bratislava. His doctoral thesis, entitled Cultural and Historical Memory of the Landscape in Hungary in the 18th Century, contributes to to CEFRES research area 3. He received a CEFRES– Fif UK fellowship for the academic year 2025–2026.
Associated PhD students 2024–2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kateryna Mychka
est doctorante en études germaniques et slaves à l’Université Charles et l‘Université Sapienza. Sa recherche intitulée Serhij Žadan’s Work in the Context of Transformative Dynamics of Independent Ukraine contribue à l‘axe de recherche 2 du CEFRES.
Domenico Scagliusi
est doctorant en études slaves à l‘Université Sorbonne. Sa recherche intitulée Le Tribunal des héritiers : la mémoire du Goulag dans la littérature russophone contemporaine (2000-2022) contribue aux axes de recherche 1 & 2 du CEFRES.
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.
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.