Mgr. Marie Heřmanová, Ph.D.

Education

2018 - PhD, social and cultural anthropology, Charles University, Faculty of humanities

2010 - MA, social and cultural anthropology, Charles University, Faculty of humanities

Focus

digital ethnography, digital anthropology, social media, internet culture, influencers, authenticity, gender inequalities in digital spaces, disinformation and conspiracies on social media,  ethnographic methods

Teaching Activities

Faculty of Arts, Charles University - Introduction to Digital Ethnography

Undergraduate Programme in Central and Eastern European Studies, CERGE-EI - Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe

Foreign Study Visits and Internships

2024 Fulbright visiting scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

2021 visiting scholar, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Loughborough University, UK

2008 - 2009   visiting student, Universidad Autonoma Mexicana, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Mexico City

2006 – 2007 Erasmus student, Université Paris 7  - Denis Diderot, France 

Medallion

Marie Hermanova holds a PhD in social anthropology from Charles University. She finished her studies in 2018 with PhD thesis titled "Imagining the West - Marginality and Possible Lives at the Outskirts of a Mexican City". She conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Chiapas, Mexico, from 2008 to 2015. She currently works as an associate researcher at the Gender and Sociology department at the Institute of Sociology, where she focuses on digital communication platforms, social media, internet culture, authenticity, and gender norms. From January to July 2021, Marie was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Research for Communication and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. In 2024, she was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Centre for Information Technologies and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Besides her academic work, she has written for various Czech and international media outlets.