Mgr. Marie Láníková, Ph.D.

Research areas

History of state socialism, feminism, and women’s movement in post-1945 Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak Women’s Union, gender, women’s agency, paid and unpaid labor, second shift/double burden, science and expertise

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

2010–2014: Bachelor in Gender Studies and Social Anthropology (Bc.), Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno

2014–2017: Master in Sociology (Mgr.), Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno

2017–2024: PhD in Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Dissertation thesis: ‘Herstory of State Socialism: Czechoslovak Women’s Union, Expertise, and Women’s Empowerment, 1960s–1980s’, supervisor: doc. Kateřina Lišková, Ph.D.

Foreign internships and scholarships

3–6/2022: AKTION Österreich-Tschechien Semesterstipendien, scholarship for finishing dissertation thesis, University of Vienna, supervisor: prof. Claudia Kraft

International grants and projects

2025–2027: Ženské expertky a feministická produkce znalostí v poválečné střední a východní Evropě v letech 1945–1989 [FemEx] / Women Experts and Feminist Knowledge Production in Post-War East Central Europe, 1945–1989 [FemEx], Czech Science Foundation, International Projects (Lead Agency Grant Projects), reg. n. 25-14627L, Czech beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Polish beneficiary: Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, team member

Domestic grants and major projects

7–12/2021: Expertíza v autoritářských společnostech. Vědy o člověku v socialistických zemích středovýchodní Evropy / Expertise in Authoritarian societies. Human Sciences in the Socialist Countries of East-Central Europe, Czech Science Foundation, EXPRO – Excellence in Research Grants, reg. n. 21-28766X, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

Teaching

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Hradec Králové (since 2024)