Michael L. Smith, Ph.D.

Department:
Position:
Senior Researcher
Place of employment:
Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1
Telephone:
210 310 262
Extension:
Highest completed education
  • 1998, B.A., University of Washington in Seattle, USA

  • 2000, M.A., Boston College, USA

  • 2003-2008, Ph.D., New School for Social Research, New York, USA

  • Field of specialisation
    • political science: democratic governance, corruption, civil society and public participation, direct democracy 
    • sociology: social stratification, social and educational inequality, social exclusion
    Teaching activities
    • 2003-2007, University of Washington, Department of Comparative History of Ideas, Lecturer
    • 2001-2005, Anglo-American College in Prague, Lecturer
    • 2002-2003, Sarah Lawrence College, New York, Lecturer
    • 2002-2003, New York University, New York, Teaching Assistant
    • 2001, Eugene Lang College, New York, Lecturer
    Foreign scholarships, fellowships or other academic study abroad
  • 2001, Democracy and Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Krakow, Poland
  • 1999, International Summer School in Political Philosophy in Cortona, Italy, organized by the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
  • Membership or position in academic committees, boards, and institutions

    Member of RC28 (Research Committee 28 of the International Sociological Association), American Sociological Association, American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association.

     

    Peer-reviewed journals I have reviewed for: Comparative Education Review, European Journal of Political Research, Environmental Politics, Czech Sociological Review, Journal of Applied Economics.

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