Jan Ort
Jan Ort
QUALIFICATIONS
2023 Ph.D., History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Pragu
2017 Mgr., Romani Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
2014 Bc., Romani Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Racialisation and Racism; Post-War History of Czechoslovakia; Politics of Space; Inter-Ethnic Relations; Migration and Mobility; Sociolinguistics; Decolonization; Central and Eastern Europe; Romani Studies; Anthropology of Roma; Romani History; Romani Language
RESEARCH PROFILE
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher with the ROCIT project, focused on the consequences of the war in Ukraine for Roma in Central and Eastern Europe. As an anthropologist, my research tracks the experiences of Ukrainian Roma refugees and the activities of Roma elsewhere who mobilised to support the former in a situation of institutional racism. More broadly, I am interested in how the war-related situation changes and challenges dominant understandings of the position of Roma in predominantly non-Romani societies.
With an abiding interest in Romani Studies, my research among Roma in different European countries draws on a variety of disciplines, notably anthropology, history, and sociolinguistics. My long-term ethnographic research in eastern Slovakia focuses on everyday interethnic relations and Romani strategies of sociability. These themes are explored in my first book, Facets of a Harmony (2022). For my PhD research, I turned to the discipline of history, considering the experiences and life strategies of Roma in the context of a resettlement programme that was underway in socialist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. My Ph.D. dissertation was published under the title Roma as Agents of the “G*psy Question” (2024).
Books
2024 Roma as Agents of the “G*psy Question”. Belonging, Mobility, and Resettlement Policy in Socialist Czechoslovakia. Prague: Karolinum Press.
2022 Facets of a Harmony. Roma and their Locatedness in Eastern Slovakia. Prague: Karolinum Press. [in Czech published as Harmonie soužití. Romové jako místní obyvatelé východního Slovenska. Prague: Karolinum Press.
Edited Volumes and Special Issues
2023 Sociální mobilita Romů z dekolonizační perspektivy [Social Mobility of Roma from a Decolonization Perspective]. Special Issue of Romano džaniben 30(1).
Journal Articles
2023 Sekuritizace a bezpečnost Romů. Úvod k tematickému číslu Romano džaniben [Securitization and Security of the Roma. Introduction to the Special Issue of Romano džaniben]. Romano džaniben 30(2): 5–12.
2023 Brekovští Romové – „nejlepší v Československu“. Cikánství jako struktura vztahů a logika sociální mobility v období socialismu [The Brekov Roma – „the Best in Czechoslovakia“. Gypsyness as a Structure of Relations and Logic of Social Mobility in the Socialist Era]. Romano džaniben 30(1): 27–55.
2023 Sociální mobilita Romů z dekolonizační perspektivy. Úvod k tematickému číslu Romano džaniben [Social Mobility of Roma from a Decolonization Perspective: Introduction to the Special Issue of Romano džaniben]. Romano džaniben 30(1): 5–24.
2023 [2018] Continuities and discontinuities in a transnational social field. The case of the Margovany Roma. Český lid 110(2): 211–242. (co-author Dobruská, Petra)
2022 Belonging, mobility, and the socialist policies in Kapišová, Slovakia. Romani Studies 32 (1): 23–50.
2021 Romové jako místní obyvatelé? Přináležení, cikánství a politika prostoru ve vesnici na východním Slovensku [Roma as Locals? Local Belonging, Gypsyness, and the Politics of Place in an Eastern Slovak Village]. Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 57(5): 581–608
2016 Migrace z východoslovenské vesnice. Historický přehled a současné modely [Migration from an eastern Slovak village. Historical overview and contemporary models]. Romano džaniben 23 (2): 39–70.
Ongoing Projects and Grants
2024–2026 Unequal citizenship and transnational mobilisation of Polish, Czech, and Ukrainian Roma in the face of war in Ukraine. GACR-NCN, Weave Lead Agency Project (GACR 24-14388L). Researcher.
Editorial Work
Ongoing Romano džaniben, Editor
External Reviewing
Journal Articles Manuscript Review: Bulletin Muzea romské kultury; Romano džaniben; Slovenský národopis; Sociologický časopis-Czech Sociological Review; Soudobé dějiny
Doctoral Thesis Examination: Palacký University Olomouc
Teaching Experience
2019–2023 Lecturer, Seminar of Romani Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.
Consultancy and Expert Advice
2016 Bezpečnost a sekuritizace Romů v České republice – zpráva z kvalitativního šetření [Security and Securitization of Roma in the Czech Republic – report from a qualitative investigation]. Prague: Otevřená společnost.
Public Outreach
2024 Romové v Brekově. Rodinné fotografie a historicko-etnografický text Kolomana Gunára [Roma in Brekov. Family Photos and Historical-Ethnographic Text by Koloman Gunár]. Romano džaniben 31(1): 129–143.
2023 Situace Romů v České republice v kontextu ruské invaze na Ukrajině. Fotografie Petra zewlakka Vrabce [The Situation of Roma in the Czech Republic in the Context of the Russian Invasion in Ukraine. Photos by Petr zewlakk Vrabec]. Romano džaniben 30(2): 129–141. (co-authors Berkyová, Renata – zewlakk Vrabec, Petr)
2023 Koho vlastně zastupujeme? Debata angažovaných Romů o romské společenské pozici a protiromském rasismu v Česku a na Slovensku [Whom Do We Represent? A Debate of Engaged Roma on the Romani Social Position and Anti-Romani Racism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia]. Romano džaniben 30(1): 143–156. (co-author Berkyová, Renata)
2018 „Vzal jsem si do hlavy, že si vybuduju vlastní život.“ Životopisné vyprávění Zdeňka Gužiho. ["I Took It into My Head that I Would Build My Own Life." A Biographical Story by Zdeněk Guži.] Romano džaniben 25(2): 149–172. (co-author Guži, Zdeněk)
