prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Job: Senior Fellow, Head of Department

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Phone: 210 310 223

Internal Line: 223

ORCID: 0000-0001-5047-5790

Topics: History of Sociology, Culture, Religion and Religiosity

Curriculum Vitae

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

since 2001: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Full Professor
since 2015 head of the Unit for Cultural History, since 2020 head of the Department of Historical Studies, guarantor of habilitations and professorships in social, cultural and historical anthropology
2003-2005: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, researcher

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)

Fellow of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic (since 2022)
Editor-in-chied of the on-line Sociological Encyclopaedia https://encyklopedie.soc.cas.cz/
Editor-in-chied of the on-line Encyclopaedia of Religion https://rg-encyklopedie.soc.cas.cz/
Editor-in-chief of anthropological journal Lidé města / Urban People (since 2007, 2004-08 member of the Editorial Board) https://ojs.cuni.cz/lidemesta
Member of the Editorial Board of Český lid (since 2018)
Member of the Editorial Board of Central European Journal for Contemporary Religion (since 2017)
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 Charles University's Faculty of Humanities
Member of the Scientific Board of the Institute for Study of the Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR)
Evaluator of the Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education
His wife is sociologist and social anthropologist Olga Nešporová, PhD.
They have thee children