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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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