Mgr. Pavel Baloun, Ph.D.

Research areas

social and cultural history of the Czech Lands in the first half of the 20th century in the European context, history of Roma and Sinti, history of criminality and prisons, gender history, postcolonial theory, racism

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

2007–2012: Bachelor in History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Časopis Česká stráž (1890–1901) a jeho profilující osobnosti / Česká stráž Journal (1890–1901) and its Most Influential Editors

2012–2014: Master in History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Proměna československé společnosti 30. let 20. století / The Transformation of the Czechoslovak Society in the 1930s

2014–2020: Ph.D. in Integral Study of Man – General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, thesis title: „Cikáni, metla venkova!“ Tvorba a uplatňování proticikánských opatření v meziválečném Československu, za druhé republiky a v počáteční fázi Protektorátu Čechy a Morava (1918–1941) / „The Gypsy Scourge!“ Creation and Implementation of Anti-Gypsy Measures in interwar Czechoslovakia and After, 1918–1941

Foreign internships and scholarships

09/2016: Institute of Historical Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; DAAD
10/2016–03/2017: Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic
10/2017–07/2018: Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (Junior Fellow)
09/2018–08/2019: CEFRES, French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (Ph.D. Fellow)
09/2019–08/2020: CEFRES, French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (Associated Ph.D. Fellow)

International grants and projects

2016–2021: Roma Civic Emancipation Between the Two World Wars, Principal Investigator: prof. Elena Marushiakova, University of St. Andrews, external collaborator of the ERC international project

Domestic grants and major projects

2015–2018: „Cikáni, metla venkova!“ Tvorba a uplatňování proticikánských opatření v Československu v letech 1918–1940 / „The Gypsy Scourge!“ Creation and Implementation of Anti-Gypsy Measures in Czechoslovakia in 1918–1940, Charles University Grant Agency, ID number: 54.216, beneficiary: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Principal Investigator

Teaching activities

Faculty of Humanities, Charles University (since 2020)