Our Team
Each of the following team members contribute significantly to our team and we are pleased to introduce them individually.
Tomáš Bouška
PhD. candidate at the Charles University in Prague, Department of Political Science. Member of steering committee of the International Oral History Association Conference in Prague in 2010. Board member of the Czech Oral History Association. Main field of interest is oral histories of political prisoners who survived jailing in the 1950s in forced labour camps of so called Jachymov district (former Czechoslovakia). Founder of the initiative Political Prisoners.eu.
Contact: tomas.bouska (at) politicalprisoners.eu
Klára Pinerová
PhD. candidate at the Charles University in Prague, Institute for Economic and Social History. Scientific specialization is prison service in the 20th century. Theme of her MA thesis was "Development of the Penitentiary Subcultures in Czechoslovakia in Years 1948 - 1960". Participated on the project "Prague Faculty of Arts in Years 1969 - 1989". Member of the Society for Economic and Social History and the Czech Oral History Association. Co-founder of the initiative Political Prisoners.eu.
Contact: klara.pinerova (at) politicalprisoners.eu
Michal Louč
PhD. candidate at the University of Pardubice. He holds a master's degree in social anthropology from the University of Pardubice, the Czech Republic. He is in the field since 2006. Author of the article "Life Stories of the Political Prisoners from the Pardubice Locality" based on his fieldwork. Member of the Czech Oral History Association. Volunteer of the initiative Political Prisoners.eu.
Contact: michal.louc (at) politicalprisoners.eu
Peter Luschen – AEGEE (Utrecht & Tallinn)
Peter Luschen is working as a Political Assistant in the Dutch Parliament (House of Representatives) and is a MA student of European Law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Active member of AEGEE and supporter of the initiative politicalprisoners.eu
Contact: peter.luschen (at) politicalprisoners.eu
Kristýna Bušková
Kristýna Bušková holds an MPhil degree in Social and Developmental Psychology from the University of Cambridge and an MSc degree in Psychological Studies from the University of Glasgow. During her MSc studies she developed passion for historical trauma and reconciliation of traumatic memories while working on her dissertation on topic 'Second-generation survivors of Stalinist political violence in Czechoslovakia.' She then started to co-operate with the Political Prisoners.eu Initiative. She is gong to do a PhD on the processes of reconciliation of traumatic memories aminy Stalinist survivors of political violence at the University of Nottingham starting in Oct 2010 She hopes her work will help survivors reconcile thein past and contribute towards peaceful future of Europe and successful reconciliation with its past.
Contact: kbuskova (at) gmail.com
Petra Čáslavová
Starting from 2009 Petra is a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Czech Literature and Librarianism affiliated with the Faculty of Philosophy at Masaryk University. She wrote a dissertation on topic: Prison experience in the 20th century and its reflection in the Czech literature: Poetry, autobiographical prose, memoirs and letters. She is also a student of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Masaryk University. In her research on prison experience she prefers interdisciplinary approach.
Contact: pet.cas (at) seznam.cz
Ivana Vránková
Ivana holds a bachelor´s degree in humanity studies from the Charles University in Prague. At present she studies a master´s program of Oral history at the Charles University in Prague. Ivana is in the field from 2009. She writes her Master thesis on the following topic: "The life „after". Difficulties of Czechoslovak political prisoners returning into the society" based on her fieldwork research. Ivana is a volunteer of the initiative Political Prisoners.eu.
Contact: ivana.vrankova (at) centrum.cz
Jaroslav Vaňous
Finishing studies of Oral History and Contemporary History at Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague, Jaroslav is also a 2010 Political Science alumni (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University). Interested in theoretical and practical aspects of non-democratic political regimes, political geography, language policy, relationships between political elites and organized crime etc. From 2011 onwards, Jaroslav is a member of the Czech Oral History Association.
Olivia Webb
Olivia is a volunteer proofreader and past intern for Political Prisoners.eu. After studying as in Prague via New York University’s NYU study abroad program, she returned to New York to continue studying oral history as a strong influence for her undergraduate Concentration in Politics and Communication.
