Johana Kłusek
Johana Kłusek
Mgr. Johana Kłusek, Ph.D. 
e-mail: klusek@eu.cas.cz
twitter: @JohanaKlusek
ORCID: 0000-0001-9013-1650
Education:
Ph.D. – 2023 – Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (Modern History), thesis on Czechoslovak discursive appropriation of Britain between 1939-1948
Mgr. – 2017 – Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (West European Studies)
Bc. – 2014 – Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (International Area Studies)
Appointments and fellowships:
since 2024 – Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
2022-2023 – Principal Investigator of SYLFF Research Grant (project “Travelling of Forsytes across the Iron Curtain: Domesticity as a common value of Cold War societies”)
2021-2023 – Research Assistant, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Science (GAČR project “Czechoslovak Journey to the Cold War and the Soviet Bloc”)
2021-2022 – Research Associate at University of Wrocław, Poland (NAWA grant)
2020/21, 2018/19 – Fellow of Centre for Doctoral Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
2019-2020 – Visiting Scholar at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
2019 – Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellow, “London Moment” Project Associate at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
2013 – Study stay at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, USA
Areas of Interest:
history of mentalities from East-West perspective, everyday life, anglophilia, 20th century history of Czechoslovakia
Teaching:
2020/2021 Postgraduate Teaching Assistant at SSEES, University College London,
2019/2020 Tutor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow
2018/2019 Tutor at Charles University in Prague
Publications:
Articles and book chapters:
Johana Kłusek, “Czechoslovak Media Scene in 1938: A Lack of Media-Induced Anxiety and the Origins of the ‘Munich Treason’”, in Exciting News! Event, Narration and Impact from Past to Present, ed. Brendan Dooley and Alexander Samuel Wilkinson (Brill: Leiden, 2024), pp. 281-96.
Johana Kłusek, “Our Second Capital on the Banks of the Thames: The Evolution of the Anglophilia of Czechoslovak Exiles in Britain during Second World War”, Central Europe 20, no. 1-2 (2022), 29-44.
Johana Kłusek, “Porevoluční ideové diskurzy Václava Klause: Socialismus, kapitalismus a nové lepší zítřky à la paní Thatcherová”, in Otisky sametové revoluce: Kde přebývá devětaosmdesátý?, ed. Petr Agha, Jan Géryk (Prague: Karolinum, 2021), pp. 45-66.
Other publications:
Book Review: Pavel Horák, Republika v exilu: Inscenování československé vlády v Londýně za druhé světové války, CEU Review of Books (2024) (online).
Book Review: Malgorzata Fidelis, Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain. Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland, Europe-Asia Studies 75, no. 7 (2023): 1223-5.
Book Review: Denia Nečasová, Obrazy nepřítele v Československu 1948-1956, Soudobé dějiny 29, no. 1. (2022): 315-20.
Book Review: Eva Hahnová, Češi o Češích: Dnešní spory o dějiny, Eva Hahnová, Studia Territorialia 19, no. 1 (2019): 98-101.
Journalism:
Contributed to Alarm, iliteratura, Česká televize, Český rozhlas Plus, Hospodářské noviny, Reportér, Reflex, Seznam Zprávy
