Matěj Spurný

Working as an assistant professor at the Institute for Economic and Social History of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University and as a research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (both since 2012). He had also worked as research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam and at the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. He contributed to historiographical and public debates about post war history of Czechoslovakia especially with his dissertation “They are not as us” about ethnic minorities in postwar Czechoslovakia (published 2011 in Czech and 2019 in German) and his book “Making the Most of Tomorrow” about productivist approach towards natural and urban landscape during the era of state socialism (published 2016 in Czech, 2019 in English). His latiest publications focus on environmental and urban history of late socialist and postsocialist Czechoslovakia.

matej.spurny@seznam.cz