Doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc.
Position: Director of the Institute of Ethnology of the AS CR, v.v.i.
e-mail: uherek@eu.cas.cz
tel. +420 222828504
+420 222828504
Education, academic degrees, grades
1983 M.A. Culture Studies, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague
1983 PhDr. Culture Studies, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague
1992 CSc.: PhD Ethnology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
2012 Doc.: Associated Professor in Ethnology: Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
Affiliation
Since 1983 Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Current position
· Director of the Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i. (since2007)
· Associated professor of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague
· External lecturer of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of Pardubice
· External lecturer of the University of Economics, Prague
Research stays
1993 - 1995 senior research fellow of the Central European University, Center for the Research of Nationalism (head of the department was Professor Ernest Gellner)
1998 Council of Europe - Strasbourg - subject: Roma migrations
2004 University of Leicester – Department of Urban History
Research Interests
Romanies, Migration, Minorities, Urban Anthropology, Theory of Ethnicity.
Fieldwork experience
Czech Republic (since 1980 continually); Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2011); Kazakhstan (1998, 1999); France (1998); Ukraine (2000, 2001, 2002); Slovakia (2003, 2004, 2008); Croatia (2004); Romania (2005, 2006); Canada (2006, 2010); Indonesia (2008); Serbia (2011); Macedonia (2013)
Present-day activities
President of the Czech National Committee of the Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
President of the Czech Association for the Social Anthropology
A member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
A member of the Editorial Board of the Český lid / Ethnological Journal
A member of the Editorial Board of the journal Slovenský národopis / Slovakian ethnology
A member of the Editorial Board of the journal Národopisná revue / Ethnological revue
A member of the Scientific committee of the journal Lidé města /Urban People
A member of European Association of Social Anthropologists
A member of Masaryk's Sociological Society
A member of Royal Anthropological Institute (England)
A contact person in the Czech Republic for the UNESCO programme MOST (1998 – 2004 a member of the IGC; 1999 -2001 vicepresident of the Intergovernmental Council of the program MOST).
A member of Gypsy Lore Society
Selected research projects
|
Year |
Agency |
Project number |
Name of the project |
Research role |
Assessment |
|
1996–1998 |
GA AV ČR |
IAA 0058601 |
Czechs in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Principal investigator |
Completed |
|
1998–2000 |
GA ČR |
404/98/0809 |
Migration Bridges: Czechs from Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Principal investigator |
Completed |
|
1998–2004 |
UNESCO |
MOST |
Les mots de la ville |
Coordinator for the Czech Republic |
Completed |
|
2002 |
UNHCR |
|
Integration of Recognized Refugees in the Czech Republic |
Principal investigator |
Completed |
|
2004 |
UNHCR |
|
Lending Money in Roma Communities |
Principal investigator |
Completed |
|
2005–2011 |
Government of the Czech Republic |
AV0Z90580513 |
Cultural identity and regionalism in the process of formation of the ethnic structure of Europe |
Principal investigator |
Completed with Excellent Results |
|
2005–2011 |
European Union, 6 FP |
CIT / 513438 |
Sustainable development in the diverse world
|
Coordinator for the Czech Rep. |
Completed |
|
2007–2009 |
GA ČR |
404/07/1304 |
Matriliny, migration and identity: the case of Indonesian ethnic group Minangkabau |
Principal Investigator |
Completed with Excellent Results |
|
2009–2013 |
European Commission,
7 FP |
COST ISCH ActionIS0803
|
Remaking Borders in Europe
|
Coordinator for the Czech Republic |
Ongoing project |
|
2011–2012 |
Ministry of Interior of the CR / European Refugee Fund |
EUF 2010-25 |
Analysis of the State Integration Programme for Recognized Refugees |
Principal investigator |
Completed |
|
2012-2014 |
TA ČR |
Omega TD010220 |
Project of Information System on Immigrants' families from third countries (joined project with Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs
|
Co-principal investigator – leader of research team at the Institute of Ethnology |
Ongoing project |
|
2013 |
Government of the Czech Republic |
|
General analytical reports to the governmental subsidy programs for the Roma minority. |
Principal investigator |
Completed |
|
2013–2014 |
Open Society |
|
Analysis of City Dwellers and their Utilization of Public Spaces in Prague |
Head of Research Team |
Completed |
|
2014–2015 |
TA ČR |
Beta TB030MZV002 |
Analysis of Migration of the Czech Citizens Since 1989 |
Research team member |
Ongoing project |
|
2014–2015 |
Visegrad Fund |
No. 21320085 |
Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Central Europe |
Research team member |
Ongoing project |
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