American Term

prof. RNDr. Dušan Drbohlav, CSc.

About

Dušan Drbohlav is a professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and leads the GEOMIGRACE (Geographic Migration Centre) research team. He specializes in researching international migration issues and immigrants’ integration into host societies.

doc. RNDr. Eva Janská, Ph.D.

About

Eva Janská is an associate professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University. She is a member of the GEOMIGRACE (Geographic Migration Centre) and specializes in researching international migration, migrant integration, and Latin America.

prof. Mona Domosh, Ph.D.

About

Mona Domosh is a critical human geographer, with research interests in three main areas: 1) interrogating the racist and sexist underpinnings of US empires through critical historical research; 2) documenting the constituative role that Black communities have played in shaping US cities; and 3) exploring Black radical thought and feminist theory, methods and perspectives particularly in regard to space, nature, and place.

prof. Christopher S. Sneddon, Ph.D.

About

Christopher Sneddon’s research and teaching focus on reconciling human activities with the resilience and vulnerability of ecological systems, particularly through the study of water use and river basin transformations. He analyzes social conflicts over water, with recent work on river restoration and dam removals in New England. Theoretically, he draws from political ecology, ecological theory, and science and technology studies. His book, Concrete Revolution (2015), examines large dams and Cold War geopolitics. At Dartmouth, he teaches courses on political ecology, nature-society relations, environmental politics, and qualitative research methods.

Special guest

Michael Žantovský

About

Michael Žantovský is executive director of the Václav Havel Library and a diplomat, politician, writer, and translator. He is the former spokesperson of President Václav Havel and political director at the Office of the President of the Czech Republic. He is a graduate of Charles University in Prague.

Lecturers

prof. RNDr. Jiří Blažek, Ph.D.

About

Jiří Blažek is a professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and leads the Economic Geography Lab. He researches regional development of Czechia, regional innovation systems, the role of global production networks, and geography of finance,

prof. RNDr. Dagmar Dzúrová, CSc.

About

Dagmar Dzúrová is a professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and the Head of the Research Centre on Population Health, Quality of Life and Lifestyle Among Post-communist Societies in Geo-demographic Perspective. She researches health and well-being, as well as other geo-demographic topics.

doc. RNDr. Jiřina Kocourková, Ph.D.

About

Jiřina Kocourková is an associate professor and a head of the Department of Demography and Geodemography, Charles University, Faculty of Science. She researches long term population trends in Czechia, reproductive behavior of the Czech population, as well as population and family politics.

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

About

Tomáš Kostelecký is an associate professor at Charles University and at the Czech Academy of Sciences. His research interests include the study of regional and socio-spatial inequalities, electoral geography, spatial aspects of voting behaviour, and democratic institutions at both local and regional levels.

RNDr. Zdeněk Kučera, Ph.D.

About

Zdeněk Kučera is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University. He is a team member of the Research Centre for Cultural and Historical Geography at the same department. His research interests are in historical, cultural and regional geography, especially the study of heritage, transformations of landscapes and settlement, regional identities, and historical and cultural aspects of development of borderland, mountain and rural areas. He is a director of Historical Geography and Environmental History Section of the Czech Geographical Society.

doc. RNDr. Viktor Květoň, Ph.D.

About

Viktor Květoň is an associate professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and a member of the Economic Geography Lab. He researches the formation and barriers to regional innovation systems, regional disparities, the development of competitivness, as well as new path development.

prof. RNDr. Jakub Langhammer, Ph.D.

About

Jakub Langhammer is a professor of Physical Geography at Faculty of Science, Charles University.
He is the head of Research Group of Hydrology, integrating hydrological research at the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, and the founder and head of hyDRONE – research group aimed at research and applications of unmanned imaging technologies in hydrology and physical geography.

doc. RNDr. Miroslav Marada, Ph.D.

About

Miroslav Marada is an associate professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and researches geography of transportation – hierarchization of traffic hubs and networks in Czechia, as well as the interaction between highway infrastructure and regional development.

prof. RNDr. Martin Ouředníček, Ph.D.

About

Martin Ouředníček is an associate professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and heads the Urban and Regional Laboratory research group. His main areas of research include the study of urban geography and planning, regional development, segregation, thematic (social) cartography, GIS, urbanization.

prof. RNDr. Petr Pavlínek, Ph.D.

About

Petr Pavlínek is a professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and is a member of the Economic Geography Lab. He specializes in economic geography, geography of industry, foreign direct investments, and global value chains.

RNDr. Michal Pitoňák, Ph.D.

About

Michal Pitoňák received his Ph.D. in human geography by defending the first Czech dissertation focusing on queer geographies. He currently works as a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and at Charles University at the Faculty of Education. His research includes spatiotemporal negotiation of sexual minority identities; homophobia in schools; queer theory; minority stress theory and the effects of minority stress on mental health. Michal also works as an independent scholar in the field of geographies of sexualities and as a chair of an NGO Queer Geography that focuses on the popularization of evidence-based science, and functions as a knowledge base to support sexual and gender minority people’s rights and liberties in Czechia, Slovakia and beyond.

RNDr. Lucie Pospíšilová Ph.D.

About

Lucie Pospíšilová is a member of the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and a member of the Urban and Regional Laboratory. Her publication areas include daily rhythms, urban social problems, marginalized groups, and long-term population development in Prague.

prof. RNDr. Luděk Sýkora, Ph.D.

About

Luděk Sýkora is a professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and heads the Center for Urban and Regional Research. He specializes in urban transformation and development research, spatial differentiation, gentrification, globalization, and the transformation of post-socialist cities in general.

RNDr. Petra Špačková Ph.D.

About

Petra Špačková is a member of the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and a member of the Urban and Regional Laboratory. Her publication areas include the differentiation in residential change and gentrification in a post-socialist inner-city neighborhoods, the development of spatial patterns of Czech suburbanization, and reurbanization.

doc. Václav Treml, Ph.D.

About

Václav Treml is an associate professor at the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University. He studies interactions between forests and climate, as well as consequences of climatic changes on forest productivity using dendrochronological methods. He is interested in treeline ecology and landscape evolution at longer temporal scales.

RNDr. Jiří Vágner, Ph.D.

About

Jiří Vágner is a member of the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University. He researches geography of tourism, secondary housing, and the regional geography of the world – mainly Latin America, as well as conflict regions.

Program Coordinators

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Whether you need tips for exploring Prague or guidance on navigating the faculty, they are always available to help.

Anna Ho

About

Anna holds a BA from International and Diplomatic Studies with a focus on International Economy and is currently pursuing a BA from Media Studies and an MSc from Global Migration and Development Studies. Her Master’s thesis focuses on the development of identities of the 1st generation of Vietnamese migrants in the Czech Republic.

Daniel Dobr

About

Daniel earned his BA from European Studies with a minor in International Relations. He is currently studying towards an MSc from Global Migration and Development Studies. He examines how the war in Ukraine influences the evolving identities of Russians in Czechia in his Master’s thesis.

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