Lucie Dušková, M.A., Ph.D.

Research areas

social history after 1945, collective imaginaries, everyday life, history of night, work, technology, informal economy, consumerism, theory and methodology of social history

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

2005–2008: Bachelor in History, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier

2009–2011: Master (M.A.) in Modern and Contemporary History of World Religions, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier. M1 thesis: Église catholique et la société tchèque 1985–1992, M2 thesis: Café Slavia: les chemins de la culture tchèque interdite 1948–1965

2012–2019: Ph.D. in Modern Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, dissertation: Night in Czechoslovakia: Representation and Social Practice 1945–1960

Foreign internships and scholarships

2007–2008: University of Bucharest, Erasmus
2016: Collegium Carolinum Munich, residency scholarship
2016–2017: Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, research scholarship
2017–2018: Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg, residency scholarship
2018–2019: Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg, residency scholarship
2021–2025: Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig, postdoctoral researcher

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

2020–2021: KREAS: Kreativita a adaptabilita jako předpoklad úspěchu Evropy v propojeném světě / KREAS: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World, Operational Program Research, Development and Education (OP VVV), call: Excellent Research, ID: EF16_019/0000734, beneficiary: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, team member

2023–2025: Trestat nebo napravovat? Gender, práce a disciplinace v donucovací pracovně v českých zemích (1918–1950) / Punish or rehabilitate? Gender, convict labour, and disciplination in the workhouse in the Czech lands (1918–1950), Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 23-05641S, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

Teaching

Faculty of Arts, Charles University (since 2014)

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

COST action CA18205 – World of Related Coercions in Work (WORCK) (2022–2023)

Significant awards

2017: Prize awarded by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, for the best work in the field of history, doctoral students category, 3rd place
2019: The European Review of History Translation/Editing prize for the best article by early career scholars