Position: 
Senior Fellow
Phone: 
210 310 223
Line: 
223

Curriculum vitae

Education: 
  • 2017: Charles University, Prague, Full Professor
  • 2009: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Habilitation
  • 2005: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, PhD. in history
  • 2002: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, M. A. in history of religions
  • 2001: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, M. A. in social anthropology
  • 1998: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, B. A. in humanities
Field of specialisation: 
  • sociology of religion and culture
  • history of religion
  • social anthropology
  • economic sociology
  • history of sociology
Teaching activities: 
  • since 2001: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Full Professor
  • 2003-2005: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, researcher
Foreign scholarships, fellowships or other academic study abroad: 
  • EHESS Paris - Centre d´études interdisciplinaires des faits religieux (III-IV/2006)
  • University of California Santa Barbara - Dpt. of Religious Studies (VI-VIII/2007)
  • Ludwig-Maximiliens-Universität München (IV-VI/2023)
Biographic information: 
  • Fellow of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic (since 2022)
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  • Editor-in-chied of the (Czech) Sociological Encyclopaedia  https://encyklopedie.soc.cas.cz/w/
  • Editor-in-chief of anthropological journal Lidé města / Urban People (since 2007, 2004-08 member of the Editorial Board) www.lidemesta.cuni.cz
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  • Member of the Editorial Board of Český lid (since 2018)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Central European Journal for Contemporary Religion (since 2017)
  • Member of the Czech Editorial Board of Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review (2006-16)
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  • Czech Science Foundation: chairperson of Disciplinary Committee for History and Archeology and vice-chairperson of General Committee for Social Sciences and Humanities of the Czech Science Foundation (2009-13); member/chairperson of Disciplinary Committee for Philosophy and Religious Studies (2015-18)
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of the Czech Science Foindation (2023-)
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Ethnology CAS
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  • His wife is sociologist and social anthropologist Olga Nešporová, PhD.
  • They have thee children

 

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