doc. Věra Sokolová, PhD

Functions

* Associate Professor of History, Faculty of Humanities, Univerzita Karlova Prague
* Supervisor of the M.A. program in Gender Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Univerzita Karlova Prague Program in Gender Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Univerzita Karlova Prague
* Board Member, Cooperation in Sociology and Applied Social Sciences: Gender Studies, Univerzita Karlova Prague
* Vice Chair of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Humanities, Univerzita Karlova Prague
* Vice Chair of the Working Group on Equality and Diversity, Coimbra Group
* Equal Opportunities Advisor, Rectorate, Univerzita Karlova Prague

Specialization

Contemporary history; constructions of memory landscapes; collective memory and oral tradition; violence and trauma in public space; history of eugenics and stratified reproduction; comparative history of sexuality; theory of identities; spatial creativity

Education

Doc., Habilitation in History, 2014, Pardubice University, School of Philosophy, Pardubice, Czech Republic
Ph.D., History, 2002 . University of Washington, Seattle
M.A ., History, 1996 , University of Washington, Seattle
B.A., History, 1994(Summa cum Laude), California State University, Sacramento

Selected publications

• Sokolova, V. 2021 Queer Encounters with Communist Power: Non-Heterosexual Lives and the State in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989. Prague: Karolinum.
• Sokolova, V. 2021. "Imagine Being a Dad!: Parental Desires and Reproductive Strategies of Gay Men in the Czech Republic". In Creative Families: Gender and Technologies of Everyday Life, eds. By J. Mikats, S. Kink-Hampersberger and L. Oates-Indruchova. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Sokolova, V., Oates-Indruchova, L. 2021. "Eine feministische Brucke zwischen Ost und West.“ L’Homme: Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 32/2, 137-139.
• Smith, M. L., Sokolova, V. 2021. "Gender Gaps in Educational Pathways in the Czech Republic," British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42/4: 520-543.
• Sokolova, V., Oates-Indruchova, L. 2021. "Who is Afraid of Feminist Thought?" Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, Volume 15, 2021: 208-212.
• Sokolova, V., Kobova, L. eds. 2019. Odvaha nesouhlasit: feministické myšlení Hany Havelkové a jeho reflexe [The Courage to Disagree: The Feminist Thought of Hana Havelkova and Its Reflections]. Prague: FHS UK.
• Sokolova, V., 2008 Cultural Politics of Ethnicity: Discourses on the Roma in Communist Czechoslovakia. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag.
• Sokolova, V., Kolarova, K. eds. 2007. Gender and Generation: Interdisciplinary Intersections and Perspectives. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia.

Grants/scholarships

* Progres Q20 Society and Culture research grant FHS UK. Project: Commemorative Spatial Practices and Memorial Spaces of WWII in Gendered Perspective.

* Progres Q20 Society and Culture research grant FHS UK for monograph Queer Encounters with Power, 2018-2020

* BASEES Women's Forum Prize 2015 for The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism (author of one of the chapters in the book)

* GAČR Grant GA 403/09/1502 "Transformations of Gender Culture in Czechoslovakia 1948-1989", (Research Team member), 2012-2015

* Ford Foundation Developmental Grant for the Institutionalization of Gender Studies at Charles University in Prague, 2000-2006 (Grant Author and Coordinator)