Social Anthropology Programme
Faculty of Social Studies
Employment - Position
Assistant Prof.
Education and Academic Qualifications
PhD Anthropology (UCL)
MSc Human Ecology (Edinburgh Univ)
Employment
2021-present: FSS, Masaryk Univ.
2020-21: Archimedes Fellow, Tartu Univ.
2019-20: Inst. for Advanced Studies Fellow, Leicester & NEC Bucharest
2010-2018: School of Humanities, Tallinn Univ.
Teaching Activities
2016 Francisco Martínez, PhD TÜ (Opponents Prof. V.Buchli UCL; Dr M. Mälksoo LSE/Tartu).
2017 Angelina Adaikina, BA TÜ (Opponent Dr A.Hecht, Haifa Univ) Russian domestic diasporas in London.
2018 Internal examiner of David Whyte's PhD dissertation (Surfing in Ireland) University College London, July.
2019: Mari-Liis Ling, BA TÜ (Opponent Dr T.Tuvikene, TU) Modernity and women taxi drivers in Tallinn.
2019: Kadriann Kibus, MA TÜ (Opponent Dr Alex Horstmann, TU). Riverscape heritage tourism in Nepal.
2019: Angelina Adaikina, MA UCL (consultant supervisor with C. Tilley, UCL) Allotment gardening in central London.
2021: Masters Examiner for Sithabiso Moyo, COVID-19 educational crisis, FSS, Masaryk Univ. CZ; (supervisor W. Binder).
2022: Masters Examiner for A.Blokhina, ‘Autonomous author’ FSS, Masaryk Univ. CZ (supervisor I.Kasparova).
2022: BA Supervisor for Karolína Gregorová & Sára Šujanová FSS, Masaryk CZ (examiners: I.Kasparova; O.Tesnohlidkova).
2023: Masters Examiner for Valentina Strákova, ‘Japan in CZ’ FSS, Masaryk Univ. CZ (supervisor A. Souralova).
Scientific and Research Activities
GACR (GF22-37628L), Czech Science Foundation / LA Grants. RAVE (roads, accidents, violence, events), MUNI CZ & Inst. fur Hohere Studien, Wien, AT (PIs: C.Szaló & R.Braun).
2015-20: Wenner-Gren Development Grant (Co-PI with A.Putnina) for Baltic PG programme.
Internship
2023: Zintegr Project, Jagiellonian Univ. EU Social Fund (for Marek Pawlak) Alternative Mobilitie, Krakow, Poland.
2012: Yale Centre for British Art, BAC, New Haven.
University Activities
Board of Studies, Social Anthropology
Activities Outside University
2024- : Co-editor, Ethnologia Europaea.
2019- Book Series editor, Politics of Repair (Berghahn Books).
2019-2024: Co-editor, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures.
Awards Related to Science and Research
International Advisory Boards of Periodicals:
Home Cultures;
Journal of Cooperative Studies;
Journal of Ethnology & Folklore.