Členové projektu

Stephanie Rudwick - Assistant Professor in African Studies, Department of Political Science at the University of Hradec Králové where she is also the chief editor of the Scopus-accredited African Studies journal Modern Africa. She recently held a prestigious STIAS (Stellenbosch Institute of Advances Studies) fellowship during which she finalised her Routledge monograph on the politics of English in South Africa and she is also in the process of co-editing the Handbook on Language and Race (reviewed with Routledge). She has extensive ethnographic experience and has published widely on topics of language, cultural identity, ethnicity, race and gender in high-impacted journals. Rudwick is the PI and coordinator of the project.

Kateřina Mildnerová - Assistant Professor in Ethnology at the Department of Sociology, Andragogy and Cultural Anthropology at Palacký University Olomouc (UPOL) and Chairwomen of the Czech Association for African studies (CAAS). Her research interest focuses on anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa and she has carried out fieldworks in Zambia, Benin and Namibia (focus on Namibian Czechs). She is the author of several monographs, most notably the recent Černí sokoli. Pohnuté osudy namibijských dětí vychovaných v Československu [Black Falcons. Troubled destinies of the Namibian children raised in Czechoslovakia] (NLN 2020).

Martin Schmiedl - PhD student and researcher at the Department of Politics at the University of Hradec Králové where he is also the executive editor of the African Studies journal Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society. During the past years, he was an affiliate researcher at Stellenbosch University (2017) and an assistant lecturer at Dalarna University (2019). He co-edited, together with Horáková and Rudwick, the volume Africa on the Move (2019), among other publications.

Nsama Jonathan Simuziya - PhD student and researcher at the University of Hradec Králové. His research focuses on human rights of minorities within the African polities and protection mechanisms. The research gleans on how discriminatory laws and outmoded cultural norms not only constrain the realization of minorities' full potential, but also hold back all of society. Nsama is also a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Political Science since 2019.

Angela Nwagbo - MA student of Socio-cultural Anthropology at Charles University in Prague (UK), absolvent of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) where she earned her bachelor's degree with a thesis exploring the situation of actors of African descent on Czech theatre stages. Her MA research focuses on the lived experience of 'Afro-Czechs' (people born in the Czech Republic who have one or both African parents). Angela herself was born in the Czech Republic to a Nigerian father and Czech mother.

Hana Horáková - Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the Department of Sociology, Andragogy and Cultural Anthropology at Palacký University in Olomouc (UPOL). Her research activities include the politics of identity and nationalism. She has published on aspects of the above research topics in various international journals, and she has written and/or (co-) edited more than eight books.

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