Eva Kalousova
Eva Kalousova
QUALIFICATIONS
2024 Ph.D., Historical Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague
2005 Mgr., History and British and American Philology, Palacký University, Olomouc
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Oral history; Transfer of Trauma; Czech-German-Jewish Coexistence in Czech Lands; Migration; Impact of Measures of Totalitarian Regimes on Individuals, Families and Communities; Inter-generational Relations
RESEARCH PROFILE
My research currently focuses on the topics of the OP JAK Land Gone Wild grant, mainly collectivization of agriculture in Moravia, migration, impact of WW2 and Communist regime on individuals, families and communities. I focus on case-studies of villages and towns in Slovácko, Jeseníky and Haná regions, combining oral history and archival research. More generally I am interested in transformation of Czechoslovakia during the decades since 1945.
For decades, I have also continued researching coexistence of Czech Jewish community and Czech and German majorities with special focus on Uherský Brod (Ungarisch Brod), a town in south-eastern Moravia. I have conducted many oral interviews in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Britain, USA and Israel investigating migration to and from Czechoslovakia after 1933 in Germany, Anschluss in Austria, Munich conference, after 1945 and 1968. My other major interest has been transfer of trauma from the Holocaust and its impact on the communities and societies in Czechoslovakia and Israel.
Besides these fields I am interested in Moravian folklore, folk and classical music and its history during Communist regime.
Books
2021 Židé v českých zemích v 19.–20. století [Jews in Czech Lands in Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries]. Prague: Jewish Museum in Prague. (co-authors Baránek, Daniel – Bušek, Michal – Cermanová, Iveta – Hamáčková, Vlastimila – Jelínek, Martin – Pařík, Arno – Sidenberg, Michaela – Šmok, Martin – Šplíchalová, Jana – Zudová Lešková, Zlatica)
Journal Articles
2022 “You Survived? We Were Told All Jews Were Gassed.” Jews, Czechs, and the Memory of the Holocaust. The Journal of Holocaust Research 36: 186–200.
Book Chapters
2007 Příběh dvou náhrobků. Z historie židovské emigrace z Československa ve 20. století [The Story of Two Tombstones. On the History of Jewish Emigration from Czechoslovakia in 20th Century]. In: Židé a Morava. Sborník z konference konané v Muzeu Kroměřížska 15. listopadu 2006. Kroměříž: Muzeum Kroměřížska, pp. 179–196.
2007 Cesta ke svobodě (ilegální převody židovských uprchlíků přes Bílé Karpaty) [Journey to the Freedom (Illegal Transfers of Jewish Refugees across the White Carpathians)]. In: Zudová-Lešková, Zlatica (ed.): Židé v boji a odboji: rezistence československých Židů v letech druhé světové války. Praha: Historický ústav AV ČR, pp. 61–68.
Ongoing Projects and Grants
2025–2028 The Land Gone Wild: Archaeology and Transdisciplinary Research of Resilience Strategies in 20th Century, Archaeology of Memory and Cultural Heritage, financed by the Johannes Amos Comenius Programme, Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic. Member of the research team.
External Reviewing
Bachelor Thesis Examination: Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc
Teaching Experience
2004–2023 Kurt and Ursula Schubert Center of Jewish Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc
Fieldwork
1998 Écomusée d´Alsace, Ungersheim, France – ethnology of Alsace region and building traditional village house
Conference and Workshop Organisation
2014 October, 14. Israel Yuval, Hebrew University in Jerusalem: The Emergence of Judaism and Christianity I, II. Workshop, Palacký University in Olomouc. (co-organizer Cahová, Ivana)
