Mgr. Jitka Močičková, Ph.D.

Research areas

historical geography, historical cartography, history of cartography

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

2006–2009: Bachelor in Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Soubor rukopisných map k proměnám krajiny Plzeňska v období raabizace koncem 18. století / Collection of manuscript maps to the landscape’s changes of Pilsen region in the time of raabisation (end of the 18th century)

2009–2012: Master in Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: České kraje v historickogeografických proměnách / Czech Provinces and their Development in the Historical Geographical Context

2012–2022: Ph.D. in Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Dějepisné atlasy 1848–1989 a středoevropský prostor / Historical Atlases 1848–1989 and Central European Area (supervised by prof. PhDr. Eva Semotanová, DrSc.)

Foreign internships and scholarships

2009–2010: Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padova

2022: Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection, University of Erfurt

Domestic grants and major projects

2011–2015: TEMAP – Technologie pro zpřístupnění mapových sbírek ČR: metodika a software pro ochranu a využití kartografických děl národního kartografického dědictví / TEMAP – Technology for Access to Czech Map Collections: Methodology and Software for Protection and Re-use of National Cartographic Heritage, Ministry of Culture, NAKI - Program to Support Applied Research in the Field of National and Cultural identity, ID number: DF11P01OVV003, beneficiary: Moravian Library in Brno, co-beneficiary: Faculty of Science, Masaryk University; Faculty of Science, Charles University; team member (2011–2012)

2016–2020: Czech Historical Atlas, Ministry of Culture, NAKI - Program to Support Applied Research in the Field of National and Cultural identity, ID number: DG16P02H010, consortium of beneficiaries, beneficiary-coordinator: Institute of History of the CAS, beneficiary: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, team member

Teaching activities

Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (since 2017)

Significant awards

2020: the Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences for Outstanding Achievements of Scientific Importance for Czech Historical Atlas. Chapters on the History of the 20th Century [Český historický atlas. Kapitoly z dějin 20. století]

2020: the Award of the publishing house Academia in the category of original scientific or popular science book for the year 2019 for Czech Historical Atlas. Chapters on the History of the 20th Century [Český historický atlas. Kapitoly z dějin 20. století]

2020: Map of the year 2019, Atlases, Map Files and Map Editions, Czech Cartographic Society for Czech Historical Atlas. Chapters on the History of the 20th  Century [Český historický atlas. Kapitoly z dějin 20. století]