OBLAST ZÁJMU
- moderní Blízký východ
- historie Osmanské říše
- intelektuální dějiny
- menšiny Osmanské říše
- formování moderního Turecka
- trasnsformace Blízkého východu v 19. a 20. století
- osmanská modernizace a koncept produktivity
VZDĚLÁNÍ
2012 Ph.D. in Ottoman History, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London – Thesis: “The intellectual's dilemma: Ahmet Rıza and Mehmet Sabahettin on reform and the future of the Ottoman Empire.”
2000 MA Middle East Area Study (SOAS)
1997 BA International Affairs, John Cabot University
AKADEMICKÁ PRAXE
2014- Orientální ústav AV ČR
2013-2014 New York University on London (NYUL) – Lecturer in Middle Eastern history
2013-2014 The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London – Lecturer in history of the Islamic world
2010-2014 SOAS – Senior Teaching Fellow in the History of the Near and Middle East
2009/2010 St. Mary’s University College – Visiting Lecturer in Ottoman history
2008-2010 Birkbeck College – Sessional Lecturer in History of the Middle East
GRANTY
- 2018-2019 Research Grant Strategie AV21, the Czech Academy of Sciences - Religion and State Ideology in the Middle East and Asia”
- 2018 Výzkumný grant Strategie AV21, AV ČR - Nation Building and Religious Identity in the Middle East and Asia
- 2017-2018 Výzkumný grant Strategie AV21, AV ČR - Non-Western Freemasonry: Hidden Loci of Alternative Power
- 2004-05 Výzkumný grant SOAS - Archival Research Fund, Princeton University, USA
- 2013 Jazykový grant Ottoman Studies Foundation - kurz osmanské turečtiny
OSTATNÍ AKADEMICKÉ AKTIVITY
členství v edičních radách
- 2015- ediční rada, Middle East Area Submissions, Archiv Orientálni
- 2014- ediční rada, Vakanuvis
- recenzent, Palgrave Macmillan
- recenzent, Bloomsbury Publishing
akademické a administrativní pozice
- 2018- volený člen, Poradní sbor OÚ AV ČR
- 2015- Research Associate, School of History, Religions and Philosophies SOAS, University of London
členství v akademických společnostech
- Middle East Study Association (MESA) of North America
- London Middle East Institute (LMEI) at SOAS
- Gesellschaft für Turkologie, Osmanistik und Türkeiforschung (GTOT)
- Centre for Ottoman Studies (COS) at SOAS
- German Middle East Study Association (DAVO)
další akademická činnost
- 2017- Co-organiser, Middle East Lecture Series (MELS) Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Charles University, Prague
- 2015- Organiser, Institute Seminar Series, Oriental Institute, the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
Konferenční příspěvky, přednášky a organizace konferencí
- Panel Organiser: “Power and Visibility in Ottoman Istanbul: the Seen, Unseen, and to Be Seen.” Turkologentag 2018 – 3rd European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies and Bamberg, 19th – 21st September, 2018. Paper: “The High Corners of Istanbul: Unseen Marginals and the Consumption of Cannabis in the Late Ottoman Empire.”
- Panel organiser: “The City in the Eye of the Beholder: Perspectives of Ottoman Istanbul.” 20th Annual Mediterranean Studies Association International Congress, Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, Valletta, 31st May – 3rd June, 2017. Paper: “Getting High in the City: The Use and Abuse of Recreational Drugs in late-Ottoman Istanbul.”
- Paper: “The Feasibility of Ottomanism according to Ottoman Albanian Ismail Kemal Bey.” CIEPO 22 Symposium, Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, Trabzon 8th October, 2016.
- Paper: “Ottoman Cosmopolitanism.” International Conference Overcoming Global Threats, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 13th April, 2016.
- Paper: “The Feasibility of Ottomanism according to Ottoman Albanian Ismail Kemal Bey.” DAVO/DMG Joint International Conference, Ruhr University, Bochum, 26th September, 2015.
- Paper: “Exiled Activists or Cosmopolitan Intellectuals? The Young Turk Opposition in Paris.” Modern Turkish Studies Programme, SOAS, London, 2nd March, 2012.
- Co-organiser of the 2011-12 Seminar Series held at the Yunus Emre Enstitüsü, Turkish Cultural Centre, 10 Maple Street, W1T 5HA, London.
- Co-organiser of the Middle East PhD Students International Conference, “State, Society and Economy in the Modern Middle East,” London Middle East Institute, 7th – 8th May, 2011.
- Panel co-organiser: “Neither pashas nor sultans: alternative leadership in the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey.” Discussant: Dr. Marc Aymes (CNRS – Paris) and Dr. Vangelis Kechriotis (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi). Paper: “Constructing the superiority of the Ottomans: Mehmet Sabahettin and his synthesis of Edmond Demolins.” World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) 19th – 24th July 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
- Panel co-organiser: “Political and social aspects of the press in Ottoman and post-Ottoman lands.” Chair/Discussant: Prof. Palmira Brummett. Paper: “Late 19th Century Ottoman Press in Exile as a Political Tool against Sultan Abdulhamid II, the Experience of Mechveret Supplément Français.” Middle East Study Association (MESA) 22nd – 25th November 2008, Washington DC.
Zvané přednášky
- Round-table: “The Kurds and Shifting Borders in the Middle East.” Anglo-American University, Prague 11th May, 2017.
- Lecture: “The Ottoman Empire in WW1.” Department of Turkology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague 4th January, 2017.
- Paper: “Religion and Ethnicity in the Late Ottoman Empire.” Seminar Series: Orient a Closer Look, Charles University, Prague 1st December, 2016.
- Panel Discussion: “The Turkish Coup Attempt and its Aftermath: Sultanic Despotism, Military Dictatorship or a Divided Society?” Anglo-American University, Prague 17th October, 2015.
- Lecture: “Religion and Ethnicity in Young Turk Thought.” Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut 2nd October, 2015.
- Lecture: “Intellectuals without Borders.” Anglo-American University, Prague 10th June, 2015.
- Lecture: “Women and Reform in the Ottoman Empire.” Metropolitan University, Prague 7th May, 2015.
Workshopy
- Workshop Organiser: “Religion and State Ideology in the Middle East and Asia.” Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 11th November, 2019.
- Paper: “The Fight for the Nation: Young Turk and Hamidian Religious Discourse in theCo-chair of Workshop: “Late Ottoman Identities: the National, Transnational, and Marginal.” Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Charles University, Prague 12th – 13th October, 2018. Formulation of Ottomanism as Proto-nationalism.”
- Workshop Organiser: “Outcasts and the State in the Late Ottoman Empire.” Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 4th December, 2017. Paper: “Getting High at the Gates of Felicity: Social Dimensions of Marijuana and Hashish Consumption in the Late Ottoman Empire.”