Date and place of birth: March 11, 1961, Teplice, Czechoslovakia

Education:

• 1985: Faculty of Education in Pilsen – M.A. in Elementary School Education
• 1989: Faculty of Education at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen – PaedDr. in Education and Psychology
• 1992: Faculty of Education, University of West Bohemia in Pislen – M.A. in History and Czech Language
• 2000: History department of Faculty of Arts, Palacky University in Olomouc – Ph.D. in Czech and Czechoslovak History
• 2006: Habilitation at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague – Associate Professor in Political Sciences
• 2010: Professorship at Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava – Professor in Czech and Czechoslovak History

Employment history:

• 1986–1990: Elementary school teacher in Prague
• 1990–1992: High school teacher in Prague
• 1992–1995: Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Prague
• 1995- to date: Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at CAS in Prague
• 2000–to date: Director of the Oral History Center at the Institute of Contemporary History at CAS in Prague
• 2007-to date: President of the Czech Oral History Association (COHA)
• 2008-to date: Board member of the International Oral History Association (IOHA)
• 2008-to date: Director of the Department of Oral History and Contemporary History at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague
• 2008-to date: Chairman of Czech National Committee of Oral History
• 2010-to date: President of the International Oral History Association (IOHA)

Specialization:

Contemporary History, Oral History, Young Generation in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s–1980s and the Student Movement, Ecology Movements in the Second Half of 20th Century, Czechoslovak Communist Elites and Opposition in the 1970s and 1980s.

Selected Publications:

• Veřejné mínění o socialismu před 17. listopadem 1989. Analýza výsledků výzkumu veřejného mínění prováděných ÚVVM od roku 1972 do roku 1989. ("Public Opinion on Socialism Prior to 17 November 1989. Analysis of the Results Presented by the Institute of Public Opinion Research from 1972 to 1989"). Praha: Maxdorf, 1994. 59 p. ISBN: 80-85800-10-1
• Nedalo se tady dýchat: Ekologie v českých zemích v letech 1968 až 1989. ("Trouble Breathing. Environmental Issues in Czechoslovakia in the Years 1968–1989").Praha: Maxdorf, 1996. 170 p. ISBN: 80-85270-62-5
• Sto studentských revolucí. Studenti v období pádu komunismu – životopisná vyprávění. ("A Hundred Students' Revolutions: Students in the Period of the Fall of Communism - Life Stories").Praha: Lidové noviny, 1999. Co-author. 860 p. ISBN: 80-7106-337-1
• Ostrůvky svobody. Kulturní a občanské aktivity mladé generace v 80. letech v Československu. ("Islands of Freedom. Young Czechoslovak Generation in the Years 1969–1989").Praha: Votobia – ÚSD AV ČR, 2002. Editor and co-author. 350 p. ISBN: 80-7220-124-7
• Orální historie. Metodické a „technické" postupy. ("Oral History. Methodical and Technical Approaches").Olomouc: FF UP, 2003. 78 p. ISBN: 80-244-0718-3
• Orální historie ve výzkumu soudobých dějin. ("The Method of Oral History in Contemporary History Research").Praha: ÚSD AV ČR, 2004. 175 p. ISBN: 80-7285-045-8
• Vítězové? Poražení? Politické elity a disent v období tzv. normalizace: životopisná interview. ("Winners? Vanquished? Political Elites and Dissent in the 1970s and 1980s – Biographical Narratives").2 volumes. Praha: Prostor, 2005. Editor and co-author. 1970 p. ISBN: 80-7260-140-7 y 80-7260-141-5
• Mocní? A bezmocní? Politické elity a disent v období tzv. normalizace: interpretační studie životopisných interview. ("The Helplessness of the Powerful and the Power of the Helpless. Political Elites and Dissent in the 1970s and 1980s – Interpretation Essays of Biographical Narratives").Praha: Prostor, 2006. Editor and co-author. 412 p. ISBN: 80-7260-161-X
• Naslouchat hlasům paměti: teoretické a praktické aspekty orální historie. ("Listening to the Voices of Memory: Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Oral History").Praha: ÚSD AV ČR – FHS UK, 2007. Co-author. 224 p. ISBN: 978-80-7285-089-1
• O orální historii s jejími protagonisty a zakladateli. ("About Oral History With its Protagonists and Founders").Praha: ÚSD AV ČR, 2008. 113 p. ISBN: 978-80-7285-107-2
• Obyčejní lidé...?! Pohled do života tzv. mlčící většiny. Životopisná vyprávění příslušníků dělnických profesí a inteligence. ("Ordinary People...?! An Insight into the Lives of the «Silent Majority». Biographical Narratives of Members of the Working Class and the Intelligentsia").Praha: Academia, 2009. Editor and co-author. 3 volumes, 1838 ps. ISBN: 978-80-200-1791-8
• Byl to jenom rock´n´roll? Hudební alternativa v komunistickém Československu 1956–1989. ("Was it Just Rock'n'roll? The «other» Music in the Communist Czechoslovakia in the Years 1956–1989").Praha: Academia, 2010. 604 ps.ISBN: 978-80-200-1870-0