Jiří Pondělíček

 

Research Interests

  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Early Cold War History
  • American Cold War Security and Foreign policy
  • Propaganda
  • Civil protection

 

 

 

  

 

Employment

  • 2015–present: assistant profesosor, Department of North American Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

Education

  • 2007–2011: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Undergraduate Programme in English and American Studies, (attained degree: Bachelor – Bc.)
  • 2011–2014: Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Graduate Programme in American Studies (MA thesis topic: Public Image of the USSR in the US between 1947–1956), (attained degree: Master – Mgr.)
  • 2014–present: Postgraduate Programme in Modern History,  Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (dissertation: Civil Defense in the U.S. 1945–56)

Internships and Fellowships

  • 2017 (June): Research Scholar, Truman Library Archives, Missouri, United States

International Conferences and Invited Speaker Lectures

  • Pondělíček, J. Communism as a Challenge to Liberal Democracy in the US 1945 – 1954, in: Cultural Diversity and Value Pluralism in European and Global Politics, Anglo-American University in Prague, 20.-21. 11. 2015.
  • Pondělíček, J. Imagining the Impossible or Planning the Unimaginable? The Beginnings of the U.S. Civil Defense Program, in: Scottish Association for the Study of America 2017 Conference, University of Edinburgh , 4. 3. 2017.
  • Pondělíček, J. Atomic Fantasies and Logistical Realities: US Planning for the Third World War, 1945-1952, in: Scottish Association for the Study of America 2018 Conference, University of St. Andrews, 2. 3. 2017.

Research Grants

  • výzkumný grant Archivu Trumanovy knihovny, téma: Civilní ochrana ve spojených státech, June 2017
  • GAUK 2018 (Grantová agentura Univerzity Karlovy), téma: Přehodnocení významu amerického atomového monopolu

Main Publications

  • Here Be Spies: McCarthyism, its Reception and Connections to the Image of the USSR in the US between 1947–1954, in: Studia Territorialia, Vol. 15, No. 1-2 (2015), pp. 11-32.
  • Americká debata o vyzbrojení Ukrajiny, in: Šír, Jan a kol.: Ruská agrese proti Ukrajině, Praha, Karolinum (2017), pp. 222-234.