Věra Sokolová

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

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)

Elisabeth-List-Fellowship Projekt: Everyday Creativity in (Post)Socialism: Theoretical and Methodological Scoping