areál Hůrka
Husníkova 2075
Praha 13 155 00
tel.: 251 620 364
gender@fhs.cuni.cz

PEOPLE Faculty

    VĚRA SOKOLOVÁ, Ph.D.

   verasokolova@email.cz        Tel. 251 625 202 - GS Hůrka

     COURSES:
    -
Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Identity I. a II.
    - Gender and History: Theories, Methods, Historiography
    - Comparative History of Sexuality
    - Queer Theory
    - Gender and Visual Culture
    - Gender and Sexuality in Totalitarian Regimes of the 20th Century
                                                      - Queer Cinema
                                                      - Comparative Feminism
EDUCATION:

Ph.D., 2002
University of Washington, Seattle
Department of History

M.A., 1996
University of Washington, Seattle
Department of History

B.A., 1994 (Summa cum Laude)
California State University, Sacramento
Department of History

 
PUBLICATIONS:

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Monographs and Edited Volumes:

Cultural Politics of Ethnicity: Discourses on Roma in Communist Czechoslovakia (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2008).

Gender and Generation: Interdisciplinary Intersections and Perspectives, edited with Katerina Kolarova. (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007).

Research Articles:

"Otec, otec a dítě: gay muži a rodičovství." [Father, Father and Child: Gay Men and Parenthood.] In Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review, 2009, Vol. 45, No. 1: 1-31.

"Trasformazioni di genere. Etnografia della sessualita e degli studi queer/LGBT nella Repubblica Ceca." ("Gender transformations: ethnography of sexuality and queer/LGBT studies in the Czech Republic." Translated into Italian by Andrea Trovesi.) In eSamizdat VI (2): 2008.

"Gender and Generation in Mutual Perspective." (together with Katerina Kolarova). In Gender and Generation: Interdisciplinary Intersections and Perspectives, Katerina Kolarova and Vera Sokolova, eds. (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007): 1-20.

"Today is the Last Day of the Past: Christa Wolf and the Memories of National Socialism." In Ročenka Katedry genderových studií 05/06, Blanka Knotková-Čapková, ed. (Praha: Ermat/FHS UK, 2007): 125-153.

"Representation of gays and lesbians in mainstream visual media." In Mediální obraz leseb a gayů, Jan Kout, Aleš Rumpel a Martin Strachoň, eds. (Brno: STUD, 2006): 37-42.

"Koncepční pohled na "sexuální menšiny" aneb vše je jen otázka správné orientace...". In Mnohohlasem: Vyjednávání ženských prostorů po roce 1989, Hana Hašková, Alena Křížková a Marcela Linková, eds. (Praha: SoÚ, 2006): 253-266.

"Identity Politics and the (B)Orders of Heterosexism: Gays, Lesbians and Feminists in the Czech Media after 1989." In Mediale Welten in Tschechien nach 1989: Genderprojektionen & Codes des Plebejismus (Mediální prostory v Cesku po roce 1989: genderové projekce a kódy plebejismu), Jirina van Leeuwen-Turnovcová a Nicole Richter, eds. (München : Kubon und Sagner, 2005): 29-44.

"Planned Parenthood Behind the Curtain: Population Policy and Sterilization of Romani Women in Communist Czechoslovakia, 1972-1989." In The Antropology of East Europe Review Vol. 23/1. Spring 2005: 79-98. Reworked version reprinted in Changes in the Heart of Europe: Recent Ethnographies of Czechs, Slovaks, Roma, and Sorbs, Timothy McCajor Hall and Rosie Read, eds. (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2006): 139-172.

"Dobrovolná neviditelnost? Vizuální umění a lesbická identita." In Umělec: Časopis pro současné umění a kulturu 1/2005: 14-18. (English version: "Voluntary Invisibility? Visual Arts and Lesbian Identity." In Umělec: International Artist - Journal for Contemporary Art and Culture 1/2005: 14-18).

"Victims or Perpetrators?: Gender and Historiographical Debates on the Role of Women in Nazi Germany," a duální český překlad: "Oběti nebo stoupenkyně?: Gender a historiografické debaty o roli žen v nacistickém Německu." In Ročenka Katedry/Centra genderových studií 2004 (Praha: FHS UK, 2004), 114-137.

"'A co děti?...' Gay a lesbické rodičovství: homofobie a genderové stereotypy v české společnosti." In ABC feminismu, Lenka Formánková a Kristýna Rytířová, eds. (Brno: Nesehnutí, 2004), 81-96.

"Současné trendy feministického myšlení." In ABC feminismu, Lenka Formánková a Kristýna Rytířová, eds. (Brno: Nesehnutí, 2004), 199-213.

"'Don't Get Pricked!': Representation and the Politics of Sexuality in the Czech Republic." In Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures through an East-West Gaze, Sibelan Forrester, Elena Gapova and Magdalena Zaborowska, eds. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 251-267.

"'Moje tělo je ONA': Apriles 2003 a politika ženského/lesbického těla." In Souvislosti: revue pro literaturu a kulturu. Homosexualita v kultuře 4/2003: 80-94.

"Representations of Homosexuality and the Separation of Gender and Sexuality in the Czech Republic Before and After 1989." In Political Systems and Definitions of Gender Roles, Ann Katherine Isaacs, ed. (Pisa, Italy: Edizione Plus,Universita di Pisa, 2001), 273-290.

"Žádný prostor pro nudu." Recenze knihy Never a Dull Moment: Feminism Takes Center Stage; Teaching and the Art of Performance od Jyl Lynn Felman. (New York: Routledge, 2001.) In Cargo: časopic nové etnografie, 4:10 (February 2002).

"Černý trojúhelník: vratký terén historiografie Holocaustu a romská perspektiva." In Jaroslav Balvín a kol., ed., Romové a Majorita (Kladno: Hnutí R.,1999), 48-76.

Translations, Essays and Polemics:

"Queer Dance - invitation to an exhibition of Jana Štěpánová." In Ateliér, 25/2006.

"Why the Fear all the Time? Homophobia as an Expression of Personal Attitude", in Lidové noviny, March 23, 2006 and a longer version in Britské listy, March 27, 2006

"Feministická pedagogika: ambiciózní projekt změny českého školství." In Ročenka Katedry/Centra genderových studií 2004 (Praha: FHS UK, 2004), 11-13.

"Nepovedená koláž ČT: Homosexuální karneval-heterosexistický parlament". In Britské listy (2.10.2003).

Leila J. Rupp, Vytoužená minulost: láska a sexualita mezi osobami stejného pohlaví v Americe od příchodu Evropanů po současnost (Praha: One Woman Press, 2002.) Translated from the English original A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).

"Shifting the Terms of Debate: Transformations of Feminism in the Czech Republic." New Presence: Journal for East Central European Politics, (Summer 2000), 31-33.

"The Hidden Face of Culture: Reflections on the Dangers of the Concept of Culture and Roma Emancipation in Central and Eastern Europe." Collage: Quarterly of the Czech Helsinki Human Rights Committee, 10:1 (Fall 1999), 9-15.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

* Pearl Resnick Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies USHMM, Washington D.C., 2003-2004 (Declined)
* Woodrow Wilson Residential Research Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., Summer 2002
* Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, New School University, New York, Spring 2002
* Rondeau Evans Dissertation Fellowship, University of Washington, 2000-2001
* Open Society Fund Translation Grant: English - Czech (Leila J. Rupp A Desired Past: A short History of Same-Sex Love in America, University of Chicago Press, 1999), February 2000
* SSRC (Social Science Research Council) IDRF Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000
* Chester Fritz Dissertation Fellowship, 1999
* Aldon Duane Bell Award in Women's History, 1998
* AWSS (Association of Women in Slavic Studies) Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 1998
* Thomas Power Award for Outstanding Graduate Essay in History, UW, 1998
* Summa cum Laude, CSUS, 1994
* Golden Key Honor Society, 1994
* Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, 1994
* Dean's Honor List, CSUS, 1993 and 1994

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

- Director of the Study Abroad Program of the Comparative History of Ideas Department of the University of Washington in Prague (1996-)
- Member of COHA - Czech Association of Oral History (2007-)
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research (2008-)
- Member of the Academic Board of Gender Studies (2000-)
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Lidé/Města (2004-2007)
- Member of the Production Team of a TV cultural magazine of the Czech TV LeGaTo (2003-2004)
- Member of the American Historical Association
- Member of the Association of Women in Slavic Studies

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