2023-2025: Institute for Contemporary History, grant project investigator
2019-now: Institute of World History FF UK, assistant professor
2018: University of Exeter, postdoctoral research associate in the Socialism Goes Global project
Education
2013-2017: Ph.D. in General History, FF UK
2011-2013: Master studies in History, FF UK
2008-2011: Bachelor studies in History, FF UK
Grants and Projects
2023-2025: GAČR-SNF, bilateral project From Student Internationalism to Erasmus: Globalization and Europeanization of Student Life since 1945
2021-2023: PRIMUS, African and Middle Eastern Elites Educated in former Socialist Countries: Studies, Trajectories, and Mindsets
2019-2023: UNCE, Center for the Transdisciplinary Research of Violence, Trauma and Justice (Charles University Center of Excellence)
2019-2022: Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Block (1950s to 1991), Max Weber Foundation
2014-2016: GAUK, Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence in Western Europe in the 1970s
Internships and Research Trips
2022 Two-week research stay on Madagascar
2021 One-month SNF research grant at Université Fribourg
2021 Two-week research stay in Paris (UNESCO, Cité des mémoires étudiants) and Amsterdam (IASH)
2020 Three-week research stay in Moscow (RGANI)
2019 One-week research stay in Hamburg (Institut für Sozialforschung)
2017 One-month research internship at Universität zu Köln
2016 Two-week research stay in Rome (Archivio centrale, Archivio Gramsci)
2015 Semestral research scholarship of Hermann und Else Schnabel Stiftung at Universität Hamburg
2015 Two-week research stay in Bern (Bundesarchiv) and Zurich (Sozialarchiv)
2015 One-week research stay in Berlin (APO Archiv)
2014 One-month research internship at Universität zu Köln
2014 Two-week research stay in Rome (Archivio Gramsci, Archivio Sturzo) and Bologna (Archivio Parri)
2012-2013 Semestral scholarship at Università di Bologna (Erasmus)
2011 One-week research stay in London (Kew)
Conferences
Africans and the Media of the “Communist Geneva”. The Role of Africans in the Communication of the International Organizations Based in Socialist Czechoslovakia, at Africa and the Global Cold War III, Universität Erfurt, 22-24 September 2022
Pražské mezinárodní organizace a studená válka, at Sjezd českých historiků, UJEP Ústí nad Labem, 20-22 September 2022
A Gate for socialism in Africa: Czechoslovak developmentalism in Guinea on the example of Czechoslovak security school in Kankan, 1958-1966 (with Jan Koura), at The Socialist Countries and the Third World: Recent Approaches and New Perspectives, Charles University, 8-9 September 2022
Cold War Developmentalism: Czechoslovak Infrastructure Building in West Africa, at Socialist (Dis)Connections, RECET, Universität Wien, 27-28 June 2022
International Union of Students: Strategies of Legitimization from Prague to the global Cold War (with Matthieu Gillabert), na konferenci ‘Divided Together’? International Organizations and the Cold War, Universität Wien, 2-3 June 2022
Roundtable Soviet and Eastern European Intelligence in the Global South: A Reassessment, BASEEES Conference, University of Cambridge, 8-10 April 2022
“The World Marxist Review as a Cosmopolitan Space in Socialist Prague. Naim Ashhab and the Middle Eastern Delegates in the Editorial Office of a Global Journal” , na workshopu Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc, CEU Budapest, 24-26 February 2022
Czechoslovakia’s Struggle for Influence and Profit in the Third World, at The Soviet Union’s Relations with their Allies, University of Glasgow, 10 December 2021 (online)
Africans in the International Union of Students and Cold War Internationalism, at Viva Africa, Charles University, Praha, 16-17 September 2021
The World Marxist Review as a Cosmopolitan Space in Socialist Prague: Naim Ashhab and the Middle Eastern Delegates in the Editorial Office of a Global Journal, at Contested Knowledge in a Connected World, Berlin, 16-17 September 2021
L’Europe médiane et l’émergence du «tiers-monde»: Développementalisme et anti-impérialisme. L’exemple de la Tchécoslovaquie, Université Fribourg, 17 May 2021
Naim Ashhab and the editorial office of the World Marxist Review, at Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc (1950’s to 1991), University of Sofia St. Kliment Ohridsky, 22–24 July 2021
Prague as International Socialist Space, at Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Block, Orient-Institut Beirut, May 2019
Czechoslovak Experts in the Third World: The Case of the Military Technical College in Cairo at Eastern Bloc and the Third World, November 2018, Charles University
Prague Calling Africa and Asia. Czechoslovakia’s self-presentation in the Third World, at SocialistCultural Diplomacy of the ХХth century: institutes, actors, discourses, October 2018, Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau
Czechoslovak Spies on the “Black Continent”: Strategy and Activities of Czechoslovak Intelligence in Africa in the 1960s (with Jan Koura), at Secret Struggle for the Global South, September 2018, University of Warwick
Tricontinental as a Radicalization Factor of the Left-wing Terrorist Groups in Europe at Legacies of the Tricontinental, 1966-2016: Imperialism, Resistance, Law, September 2016, Universidade de Coimbra
Levicový radikalismus v Itálii po roce 1968 at Promýšlet Evropu 20. století. Konflikty beze zbraní, April 2014, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno
Publications
Reluctant Revolutionaries: Czechoslovak Support of Revolutionary Violence between Decolonization and Détente, in Intelligence and National Security, DOI: 10.1080/02684527.2022.2098551
The Leftist “Imagined Community”. The Transnational Imagination of Left-Wing Subversive Organizations in Western Europe, in Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 48/2 (2022), 79-104. DOI: 10.3167/hrrh.2022.480205
L’internationalisme tchécoslovaque en Afrique à travers l’exemple de l’aide à la construction d’infrastructures militarires et de securité en Guinée, 1958-1965, in Matthieu Boisdron and Krisztián Bene, Marges impériales en dialogue. Échangesm transferts, interactions et influences croisés entre les espaces postcoloniaux francophones et la périphérie soviétique européenne dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, Université de Pécs, 2022, 159-170
Polozapomenutý listopad. Mezinárodní den studentstva a jeho překrývaná paměť, in Paměť a dějiny 3/2021, 90-100
Československo a studená válka v Africe. Přístupy, interpretace a roviny zkoumání (s Janem Kourou), in Paměť a dějiny 14/3 (2020), 3–13
Mezi solidaritou, obchodem a politikou. Vojenský výcvik Afričanů v Československu v šedesátých letech, in Paměť a dějiny 14/3 (2020), 24–32
Inspirace v boji proti kolonialismu. Československá kulturní propaganda vůči Africe, in Dějiny a současnost 2020/10, 26–29
Banking on Military Assistance: Czechoslovakia’s Struggle for Influence and Profit in the Third World 1955–1968 (with Daniela Richterova and Natalia Telepneva), in International History Review, 43/1 (2021), 90-108
The Aftermath of Revolution. U.S. Support for Czech and Slovak Liberal Democracy, 1989–Present (with Kelsey Landau and Norman Eisen), in Norman Eisen (ed.), Democracy’s Defenders. U.S. Embassy Prague, the Fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia, and Its Aftermath, Washington 2020, 161-188.
Sanctuary, Armoury, and Prison. Switzerland and Swiss Anarchists as Intermediaries in the European Terrorist Network in the 1970s, in Central European History 52 (2019), 672–688.
O ozbrojeném boji v západní Evropě. Italský a německý levicový terorismus sedmdesátých let v transnacionální perspektivě
[Armed Struggle in Western Europe.Italian and German Left-Wing Terrorism of the 1970s in the Transnational Perspective.], Praha 2018
Sanctuary and Armoury. Switzerland and Swiss Anarchists as Intermediaries in the European Terrorist Network in the 1970s, in Central European History (under review)
“The Fifth Column of the Third World.” Tricontinental Conference as a Radicalization Factor of the European Left-Wing Terrorist Groups, in Third World Quarterly (v tisku)
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli: Život a smrt extravagantního miliardáře, neúspěšného revolucionáře a sponzora evropského terorismu [Giangiacomo Feltrinelli: Life and Death of an Extravagant Billionaire, an Unsuccessful Revolutionary and a Benefactor of European Terrorism], in Bárta, M. – Kovář, M. (eds.), Lidé a dějiny. K roli osobnosti v historii v multidisciplinární perspektivě, Praha 2017, p. 781–802
Rozzuřená generace. Revoluční násilí a terorismus ve Velké Británii na počátku sedmdesátých let [Angry Generation. Revolutionary Violence and Terrorism in Great Britain at the Beginning of the 1970s], in Koura, J., Tumis, S., Soukup, J. (eds.), Kapitoly z britských a amerických dějin. Profesoru Martinu Kovářovi k padesátým narozeninám, Praha 2015, p. 202–214
Levicový radikalismus v Itálii po roce 1968 [Leftist Radicalism in Italy after 1968] in Škerlová, J. – Pokorná Korytarová, L. – Haváč, O. – Vitko, M. (eds.), Promýšlet Evropu 20. století. Konflikty beze zbraní, Brno 2015, p. 213–228
The Origins of the Left-wing Terrorism in Italy after 1968, in Dvacáté století – The Twentieth Century, 2014/1
