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Sandra Kreisslová

Sandra Kreisslová

 

 

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PhDr. Sandra Kreisslová, Ph.D.

Department of Memory Studies
Researcher

Email: kreisslova@eu.cas.cz
Address: Puškinovo náměstí 447/9, 160 00 Prague 6, Czechia
Tel.:     +420 773 032 699

ASEP; ORCID

QUALIFICATIONS

2011    Ph.D., Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
2006    M.A., Social Anthropology, University of Pardubice
2004    B.A., Social Anthropology, University of Pardubice

PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS

Culture of Remembrance and Collective Memory; Ethnic Minorities; Trauma and Forced Migration; Anthropology of Tourism; Anthropology of Borders; German-speaking Population of the Czech Lands; Transformation Processes in the Area of the Czech-German and Czech-Austrian Border after 1945; Everyday Life in the Area of the Czech-Slovak and Slovak-Ukrainian Border; Oral History

RESEARCH PROFILE

My research currently follows two main axes. First, I examine how borders are perceived, experienced, and narrated by local actors. I focus on the dynamics of borders and their transformations during times of crisis, with an empirical emphasis on the Czech-Slovak and Slovak-Ukrainian borders.

Second, my work examines the issues of interethnic relations, culture of remembrance and collective memory, which I observe among the German-speaking population of the Czech lands. Specifically, I am interested in the construction of home (Heimat) among forcibly displaced Germans and their nostalgic return journeys to Czechoslovakia during the Cold War. My research on family memory and the transmission of recollections of post-war migrations to and from Czechoslovakia resulted in the collective monograph Takové normální rodinné historky“: Obrazy migrace a migrující obrazy v rodinné paměti [“Just Ordinary Family Stories”: Images of Migration and Migrating Images in Family Memory] (2019, co-authors Nosková, Jana – Pavlásek, Michal), which was translated into German and awarded first place in the Book of the Year 2019 category by the Czech Ethnological Society.

Alongside these core areas, I remain deeply interested in the ethics of oral-history and ethnographic research in the context of crises and trauma.