Books

2016 Migrace: historie a současnost [Migration: History and Present]. Ostrava: Pant (co-authors Honusková, Věra – Ošťádalová, Šárka – Günter, Ladislav)

2014 Romové v československé a české společnosti v letech 1945–2012: národnostní struktura, specifika romské rodiny a migrací. [Roma in Czechoslovak and Czech Society in 1945-2012: National Structure, Specifics of the Roma Family and Migration]. Praha: Národohospodářský ústav Josefa Hlávky. (co-author Davidová Eva)

2011 Češi v Bosně a Hercegovině. Antropologické pohledy na společenský život české menšiny v zahraničí. [Czechs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Anthropological Views on the Social Life of the Czech Minority Abroad]. Praha: Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i.

2010 Kvalita života a sociální determinanty zdraví u Romů v České a Slovenské republice. [Quality of Life and Social Determinants of Health among Roma in the Czech and Slovak Republics]. Praha: Triton. (co-authors Davidová, Eva – Elichová, Markéta – Ivanová, Kateřina – Kajanová, Alena – Matulay, Stanislav – Matulayová, Eva – Nesvadbová, Libuše – Poláčková, Lýdie –Urban, David – Vacková, Jitka – Velemínský, Miloš)

2008 Cizinecké komunity z antropologické perspektivy. [Foreign Communities from an Anthropological Perspective]. Praha: Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i. (co-authors Pojarová, Tereza – Korecká, Zuzana et al.)

2006 Kultura – společnost – tradice II. [Culture - Society - Tradition II]. Praha: Etnologický ústav AV ČR (co-authors Valášková, Naďa – Lozoviuk Petr – Weinerová, Renata – Brouček, Stanislav)

2003 Češi z Kazachstánu a jejich přesídlení do České republiky. [Czechs from Kazakhstan and their Resettlement in the Czech Republic]. Praha: Etnologický ústav AV ČR (co-authors Valášková, Naďa – Kužel, Stanislav – Dymeš, Pavel)

2000 Bosnia, Bosnian Czechs, and Migratory Bridges. Praha: Institute of Ethnology (co authors Lozoviuk, Petr – Toncrová, Marta)

1997 Aliens or One´s Own People: Czech Immigrants from the Ukraine in the Czech Republic. Praha: Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (co-authors Valášková, Naďa – Brouček, Stanislav)

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

2017    Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders and Migration. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (co-editor Krase, Jerome)

2015    Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe. New York: Palgrave and Macmillan. (Červinková, Hana – Buchowski, Michal)

2011    Migration, Diversity and Their Management. Praha: Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i.

Journal Articles

2025 Transnational Field of Dispersed Diasporas: The Czech Case. Central and Eastern European Migration Review (CEEMR). DOI: 10.54667/ceemr.2025.04 (IF) (co-author Beranská, Veronika)

2025 Proměny ve vyprávění volyňských Čechů. Národopisná revue 35(1): 38–51. https://doi.org/10.62800/NR.2025.1.04 (co-author Beranská, Veronika)

2022    Romani migration from the Czech Republic to Canada: Czech media communication. Romani Studies 32, 2: 269–292.

2022    Produkční rybářství v naracích lokálních stakeholderů: příklad Blatná. [Production fisheries in the narratives of local stakeholders: the case of Blatná] Slovenský národopis /Slovak Ethnography 70(1), 92–113. (co-author Kouba, Vojtěch)

2021    Undercommunicated Stories in Boundary Building Processes: Successful Romanies in the Czech Republic. Ethnologia Polona 42: 65–78.

2021    They fear us, we are contagious… “Homo chernobylus” as an example of a potentially disabled person and his/her defence strategy. AM. Rivista della Società italiana di antropologia medica/Journal of the Italian Society for Medical Anthropology 21(50): 89–111 (co-author Beranská, Veronika)

2018    Czech and Slovak Romani on the path abroad: Migration and human personality. Romani Studies 28/5 (1): 79–108.

2018    Political Participation and Legitimization of Power. The State and the Family: A Romani case. Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography 8 (Suppl. 1): 74–78.

2017    Not only moving bodies: contesting and transforming concepts in migration studies. Slovenský národopis 65, 2: 222–233.

2016    The Defensive Strategies of Czech and Ukrainian Residents in the Ukraine against the Effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident. Český lid The Czech Ethnological Journal 103(1): 85–101 (co-author Beranská, Veronika)

2007    Czech “národopisci” and socio-cultural anthropologists in a changing environment. In: Anthropology Multiple Temporalities and its Future in Central and Eastern Europe. Halle: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Working Paper No. 90: 41–48.

2007    Romské migrace ze Slovenska v kontextu evropských migračních trendů. [Roma migration from Slovakia in the context of European migration trends].  Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 43(4): 747–774.

2007    Reflexe migračních teorií. [Reflection of Migration Theories]. Geografie – Sborník České geografické společnosti 112(2): 125–141 (co-author Drbohlav, Dušan)

2005    Czechs in Bosnia and Herzegovina and their Social Activities. The Anthropology of East Europe Review 23: 136–150 (co-author Plochová, Kateřina)

2004    Use of social science research on migration policy in the Czech Republic. Blackwell Publishing / UNESCO International Social Science Journal March 179: 101–113.

2003    Cizinecké komunity a městský prostor v České republice. [Foreign Communities and Urban Space in the Czech Republic]. Sociologický časopis/ Czech Sociological Review 39, 2: 193–216.

2003    Some aspects of transformation processes in the Czech Republic. International migration and integration of foreigners. International Journal on European Cultures 12: 87–101.

2001    Ladislav Holý and Ernest Gellner: Representatives of Two Incompatible Approaches to the Study of Central European Society? Czech Sociological Review 9(2): 247–257.

1997    L'ethnologie urbaine en pays tchćques. Genèses: Sciences sociales et histoire (Septembre): 111–127.

Book Chapters

2024    Continuous Individual Mobilities and New Forms of Integration: The Example of Czech Diaspora. In: Janská, Eva (ed): Transnational Trajectories and Diaspora Policies. Praha: Karolinum, pp. 164–179. (co-author Beranská, Veronika)

2024    Czech Republic. In: Wilson, Thomas M. (ed): Europe: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society. Vol.1. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 189–209.

2022    From Interdependence to Disjunction: Gellner’s Theory and the Development of the Interrelationship Between the Concepts of Nation and Nationalism. In: Skalník, Petr  (ed.), Ernest Gellner´s Legacy and Social Theory Today. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 501–519.

2019    Romani Political Participation and Legitimization of Power Relations in the Czech Republic. In: Pardo, I. - Prato, G. (eds), Legitimacy: Ethnographic and theoretical insights. Chum (Switzerland): Palgrave Mcmillan, pp. 305–328.

2017    Discourse on Public Spaces: Praguers in the Process of Globalization Changes and the Neoliberal Economy. In Krase, Jerome - Uherek, Zdeněk (eds): Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders and Migration. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.: 71–92.

2011    Diversity and Social Anthropology. In: Knotter, Steven - De Lobel, Rob - Tsipouri, Lena - Stenius, Vanja (eds): Diversity Research and Policy. A Multidisciplinary Exploration. Amsterdam: Pallas, pp. 21–41.

2010    Migration in the Czech Republic: A Source of Social Diversity and Formation of New Social Networks in the Urban Environment. In: Jansens, Maddy et al. (eds): The Sustainability of Cultural Diversity. Nations, Cities and Organizations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 245–257.

2009    Immigrants from Ukraine in the Czech Republic: Foreigners in the border zone. In: Kürti, Lászlo - Skalník, Petr (eds): Postsocialist Europe: Anthropological perspectives from home. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 270–294.

2006    Czechs in Bosnia and Herzegovina and their Social Activities. In: Hall, McCajor Timothy. - Read, Rosie. (eds) Changes in the Heart of Europe:  Recent Ethnographies of Czechs, Slovaks, Roma and Sorbs. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, pp. 239–263 (co-author Plochová, Kateřina)

Ongoing Projects and Grants

2023–2027      Národní a kulturní identita českých komunit na Ukrajině v 19. – 21. století. NAKI, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. Investigator.

2025–2028      Migration and Us: Mobilities, Refugees and Borders from 
 the Perspective of the Human Sciences (MyGRACE), OP JAK project, Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic. Inverstigator.

Past Projects and Grants (selection)

2020 – 2022    “Nové přístupy ke koordinaci krajanské problematiky“ New approaches to coordination of compatriot issues; research team member  Technological Agency of the Czech Republic / Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of the CR

2009 – 2013    Remaking Borders in Europe. FP 7, COST – European Commission project IS0803, coordination for the Czech Republic, Management Committee member.

2005 – 2011    Sustainable development in a diverse world (FP 6, European Commission Centres of Excellence project ID: 513438 - coordinator for the Czech Republic; coordinator of the project: the Eni Foundation Enrico Mattei Milan).

Editorial Work

Ongoing          Cargo Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology Editor-in-Chief
Ongoing          Národopisná revue / Ethnological Revue, Editorial Board Member
Ongoing          Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, Editorial Board Member

Board Memberships

Ongoing          Faculty of Health and Social Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Scientific Board Member
Ongoing          Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno, Board Member of Sociology Programme
Ongoing          Faculty of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia, Board Member of Ethnology Programme

External Reviewing

Project Evaluation: ERC projects (Remote Expert Referee); HERA, external reviewer;

Habilitation Thesis Evaluation, Charles University, Masaryk University

Ph.D. Thesis Evaluation, Charles University, Masaryk University, University of West Bohemia, University of South Bohemia

Bachelor´s and Master´s Degree Programs evaluations for the National Accreditation Office of the Mistry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic

Teaching Experience

Ongoing          Director of the Master´s Degree Programme Sociology of Contemporary Societies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

2012–2017      Associated Professor at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University

1991–2012      External lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, University of West Bohemia, and University of Pardubice

Conference and Workshop Organisation

2024    Local and Global Impacts of the War in Ukraine, Conference, Charles University, Prague, co-organizer Charles University, and European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

2021    Gypsy Lore Society Annual Conference, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, co-organizers Gypsy Lore Society and Charles University

2019    Migration and Generational Experience. Conference, Velkopřevorský Palace, Prague, co-organizers Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Charles University

2015    “Why Anthropology Matters” General Annual EASA Meeting, Vila Lanna, Prague

2012    Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders and Migration. Conference, Vila Lanna, Prague, with the co-presence of the IUAES Urban Anthropology Committee and the UNESCO MOST participation