Kateřina Králová

Prof. PhDr. Kateřina KRÁLOVÁ, Ph.D.

tel.: (+420) 220 303 920

e-mail: kralova@eu.cas.cz

ORCID: 0000-0001-9475-7933

Personal profile

Education

Ph.D. – 2010 – Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague (Modern History) – doctoral thesis Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past in the Context of Greek-German Relations

M.A. – 2002 – Philosophische Fakultät, Philipps-Universität, Marburg (Political Science, German Language and Literature)

Scholarships

2021/2022 – Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Research Fellowship for Experienced Scientists
2020/2021 – Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies – research fellow
2017, 2018 – Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg – visiting research fellow
2015/2016 – Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, Washington D.C. – Sosland Family Fellow
2008/2009 – Yale University – Fulbright-Masaryk Research Scholarship
2006/2007 – Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf – DAAD doctoral scholarship
2003/2004 – University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki – PhD Scholarship of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY)
1999/2000 – Philipps-Universität Marburg – study scholarship

Employment

Since 2024 – Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
Since 2005 – Institute of International Studies, FSS CUNI

Lectures

Institute of International Studies, FSS CUNI

Areas of Interest

Contemporary European history, Holocaust and Memory Studies, post-conflict society, historical migration, modern history of Greece

Projects

Slow Memory – Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change (COST Action: CA20105, 2021–2025) – core group member, co-leader of the working group Welfare
Violence, Trauma and Justice (UNCE/HUM/009, 2018–2023) – senior researcher
Beyond Hegemonic Narratives and Myths. Troubled Pasts in the History and Memory of CE- & SE-Europe (PRIMUS/HUM/12, 2017–2019, 2019–2021) – principal investigator
“We had to live, we had to survive somehow…” Jews in Greece, 1944–2012 (GA ČR 16-16009S, 2016–2018) – principal investigator

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books and editorship

2024. Responding to Mass Atrocities in Southeast Europe: History and Memory of World War II and its Aftermath in European Perspective. Journal of Modern European History (Special Issue, edited with Ferhedbegović, Sabina).
2023. Troubled Pasts and Memory Politics in Central and Southeastern Europe. Nationalities Papers 51: 3 (Special Issue, edited with Asavei, Maria Alina).
2023. Memory Cultures since 1945: German-Southeast European Entangled History. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (edited with Ferhedbegović, Sabina and Voß, Christian).
2019. Diverse Perspectives on Jewish life in Southeast Europe. Abingdon: Routledge (edited with Vulesica, Maria and Antoniou, Giorgos).
2016/2017. Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung: Deutsch-griechische Beziehungen seit 1940. Köln: Böhlau (2016), BPB (2017).
2016. Minderheiten im sozialistischen Jugoslawien. Brüderlichkeit und Eigenheit. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (edited with Kocián, Jiří and Pikal, Kamil).

Book chapters

Le cimetière fantôme de Thessalonique. In: Barzilai, Martin: Cimetière fantôme – Thessalonique. Paris: Creaphis Editions: 187–202.
Memory Landscapes in Ruins: The Example of the Hirsch Quarter in Thessaloniki. In: Ferhedbegović, Sabina – Králová, Kateřina – Voß, Christian (eds.): Memory Cultures since 1945: German-Southeast European Entangled History. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag: 35–49.
What is True and What is Right? An Infant Jewish Orphan’s Identity. In: Schmidt, Christine – Bardgett, Suzanne – Stone, Dan (eds.): Beyond Camps and Forced Labour. Cham: Palgrave: 105–123.
German Collective Guilt in the Narratives of South-East European Holocaust Survivors. In: Molnar, Christopher – Zakic, Mirna: German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press: 114–133 (with Kocián, Jiří).
Being and Holocaust Survivor in Greece: Narratives of the Post-War Period, 1944–1953. In: Antoniou, Giorgos – Moses, A. Dirk (eds.): The Holocaust in Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 304–326.
Reparationsforderungen: Umfang, Rechtsfragen, politische Rahmenbedingungen. In: Klemm, Ulf-Dieter – Schultheiß, Wolfgang (eds.): Die Krise in Griechenland. Ursprünge, Verlauf, Folgen. Berlin: Campus Verlag & BPB: 299–325 (with Karasová, Nikola).

Journal Articles

Nazi crimes, Max Merten and His Prosecution as Reflected in Greece and Beyond. Journal of Modern European History 22 (2): 169–187 (with Lagos, Katerina).
Troubled Pasts and Memory Politics in Central and Southeastern Europe. Nationalities Papers 51 (3): 512–517 (with Asavei, Maria Alina).
The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: Place of Whose Memory? Nationalities Papers 51 (3): 622–643 (with Karasová, Nikola).
Matalon Family Secrets: Silenced Memories and Network Dynamics in Holocaust Testimonies. S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 9 (2): 51–66.
Hachsharot in Greece, 1945–1949: Camps or Vocational Centers? Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 21 (1): 75–102.
Breaking out of Silence: Victims of the 1944 Distomo Massacre in Greek-German Relations. Südosteuropa-Mitteilungen 61 (2–3): 81–91.
The Voices of Greek Child Refugees in Czechoslovakia. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 38 (1): 131–158 (with Hofmeisterová, Karin).
Diverse Perspectives on Jewish life in Southeast Europe. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 17 (2): 155–163.
“Being traitors.” Post-war Greece in the Experience of Jewish Partisans. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 17 (2): 263–280.
The ‘Holocausts’ in Greece: Victim Competition in the Context of Postwar Compensation for Nazi Persecution. Holocaust Studies 23 (1–2): 149–175.
In the Shadow of the Nazi Past: Post-War Reconstruction and the Claims of the Jewish Community in Salonika. European History Quarterly 46 (2): 262–290.

Other activities

Membership

Memory Studies Association – Scholars at Risk board member & local organizer of the MSA Annual Conference (Prague 2025)
Fulbright Commission Czech Republic – Board member
Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft – partner
Greek Oral History Association
Research Centre for Memory Studies, Institute of International Studies, FSS CUNI – head
Herzl Centre of Israel Studies, Charles University – co-founder and deputy director
CEU Press series “Memory, Heritage and Public History in Central and Eastern Europe” – Editorial Advisory Board Member
Journal of Contemporary History, ICH CAS – Editorial Board Member
Czech Historical Review, IH CAS – Editorial Board Member
Slavonic Review, IH CAS – Editorial Board Member
Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University – Scientific Board Member
COOPERATIO History, Charles University – Board Member
Modern History – doctoral programme, Institute of International Studies, FSS CUNI – Board Member

Awards

2018 – Honorary Research Associate, Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg DE
2017 – Learned Society, CZ - Under 40 Scientist Award
2013 – Miroslav Ivanov Award for non-fiction literature published in the last three years for the book Králová – Tsivos, Our Tiers Dried Out (Dokořán)
2002 – DAAD Award for the Best Foreign Student of the Year