doc. Mgr. Jaroslav Šebek, Ph.D., DSc.

Research areas

history of the Czech lands in the 20th century in the European context; political, social, ecclesiastical, intellectual history, the issue of Czech-German relations in modern times up to the present; topics related to the issues of commemorative culture in the 20th and 21st centuries

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

1988–1993: Master in History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Československý rok 1929 / The Czechoslovak Year of 1929

1993–1999: Ph.D. in History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Sudetoněmecký katolicismus na křižovatce / The Sudeten German Catholicism at a Crossroads

2009: Habilitation Procedure (doc.), Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, thesis title: Mezi křížem a národem / Between the Cross and the Nation

2021: Res. Prof. (DSc.), Czech Academy of Sciences, thesis title: Za Boha, národ, pořádek /

International grants and projects

2009–: Das Priesterkolleg St. Augustin / Frintaneum in Wien 1816 bis 1918 / The St Augustin / Frintaneum Priests' College in Vienna 1816 to 1918, University of Vienna, project leader: Prof. Dr. Rupert Klieber, Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Vienna, leader of the Czech author team

2009–: Bischofslexikon 1806–1918 / Bishops’ Lexicon 1806-1918, University of Vienna, project leader: Prof. Dr. Rupert Klieber, Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Vienna, and Prof. Dr. Erwin Gatz, Collegio Teutonico Roma (to 5/2011), leader of the Czech author team

Domestic grants and major projects

2011–2013: Nacionalismus a antidemokratické tendence v českém a německém katolicismu v meziválečné ČSR / Nationalism And Anti-Democratic Trends In The Czech and German Catholicism In Interwar Czechoslovakia, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. P410/11/2348, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Principal Investigator

2015–2017: Papežství, kurie a katolická církev v českých zemích 1820–1938. Vzájemné vztahy, česká specifika a fenomén ultramontanismu / The Papacy, the Curia, and the Catholic Church in the Bohemian Lands 1820–1938. Relationships, Czech Specifics, and the Ultramontanism Phenomenon, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 15-17092S, beneficiary: Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS, co-beneficiary: Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, team member

2017–2019: Místa paměti v procesu formování české společnosti v 19. a na počátku 20. století / The Realms of Memory in the Shaping of Modern Czech Society in the 19th and in the Early 20th Century, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 17-11309S, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, team member

Teaching activities

Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University (2008–2014)
Institute of Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (since 2016)
Institute of World History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (since 2019)

Membership of editorial boards

Member of the Editoarial Board of Series Church and Society in the Carpathian-Danube Region [Kirche und Gesellschaft im Karpaten-Donauraum] of the Lit Verlag publishing house – together with Norbert Spannenberger (Leipzig) and Rainer Bendel (Tübingen)
Member of the Editorial board of the Central Bohemia Historical Proceedings [Středočeský sborník historický]
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Proceedings of the Security Services Archive [Sborník Archivu bezpečnostních složek]
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Nature and History of Podblanicko Region Collection [Sborník vlastivědných prací z Podblanicka]
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Historica scholastica

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

Member of the Permanent Conference of Czech and Austrian Historians on Common Cultural Heritage [Stálá konference českých a rakouských historiků ke společnému kulturnímu dědictví] (since 2009)
Member of the Subject Area Board of the Doctoral Programme Czech and Czechoslovak History, Faculty of Education, Charles University (since 2012)
Member of the Scientific Board of the National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J. A. Comenius (since 2013)
Member of the Departmental Council of the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (since 2014)
Member of the Editorial Board of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (since 2014)
Member of the Subject Area Board of the Doctoral Programme Contemporary European History, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University (since 2015)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board Institute for Church and Cultural History of the Germans in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe [wissenschaftlicher Beirat Institut für Kirchen- und Kulturgeschichte der Deutschen in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa e.V] (since 2016)
Member of the Subject Area Board of the Doctoral Programme Modern History, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (since 2019)

Significant awards

2006: The Otto Wichterle Award to promising young scientists of the Czech Academy of Sciences

2012: The Award of the President of the CAS for Promotion or Popularisation of Research, Experimental Development, and Innovation

2019: The Award of the CAS for young scientific employees for outstanding results of scientific work for the book Czechoslovakia. History of the State [Československo. Dějiny státu]