Lucy Císař Brown, M.A., Ph.D.

Research areas

Early modern English and Scottish history with a focus on European print culture, social history and religious history (including witchcraft prosecutions)

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

2012–2016: Master in Social History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, thesis title: Thanatophobic Women: Fear and the Liminal Space in Early Modern Scottish Witchcraft Trials

2016–2017: Master in English Local History, School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester, thesis title: Power, Charity and Brotherly Love: Parish Politics in Early Modern Essex

2020–2024: PhD in Historical Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, thesis title: Civilising the Witch: A Figurational Analysis of Early Modern Gender and Religion

Foreign internships and scholarships

01/2022-02/2022: University of York - visiting scholar
2016–2017: Thaxted Historical Society Academic Scholarship

International grants and projects

2024–2028: Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe 1500–1800 (PCPSce), COST Action, č. CA23137, Science communications officer for Working Group 5: Texts-Ideas and Young Researcher and Innovator Spokesperson

Co-founder of Figurations Early Career Research Network

Teaching

Faculty of Humanities, Charles University (since 2022)

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

Member of the AI Institutional Transformation Research Group
Member and Social Media Manager of Research Committee 56 Historical Sociology (RC56) of the International Sociological Association
Secretary for international visiting scholars – Faculty of Humanities, Charles University 
Associate Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) (2018-2020)