František Šístek, M.A., Ph.D.

Research areas

modern history and ethnology of the Balkans (especially of the former Yugoslavia), nationalism, images and stereotypes of the other, traditional society, modernisation, instrumentalisation of history in the present, narratives of collective identity, ethnic conflicts, multicultural coexistence

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

1997–1999: Bachelor in International Area Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, thesis title: Likvidace černohorského státu v roce 1918 / The Destruction of the Montenegrin State in 1918

2000–2001: Master in Modern History of Central Europe, Central European University, Budapest, thesis title: The Restoration of Montenegro in the Plans of the Montenegrin Political Representation in Exile (1916–1922)

2002–2007: Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, thesis title: Naši bratři na jihu. Obraz Černé Hory a Černohorců v české společnosti, 1830–2006 / Our Brothers from the South. The Image of Montenegro and the Montenegrins in Czech Society, 1830–2006

Foreign internships and scholarships

2008–2009: project Regimes of Historicity and Discourses of Modernity and Identity, 1900–1945, in East-central, Southeastern and Northern Europe, Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, junior fellow
2009: project Religions and Values: Central and Eastern European Research Network (REVACERN), funded by the European Commission, coordinator: Department of Religious Studies, University of Szeged
2019: Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Erasmus+ teaching mobility

Domestic grants and major projects

2020–2022: Židé v Černé Hoře: od neviditelnosti k obci / The Jews of Montenegro: From Invisibility to a Community, Czech Science Foundation, Standard Projects, reg. n. 20-02699S, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Principal Investigator

Teaching activities

Department of Russian and East European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (since 2010)

Membership of editorial boards

Editor-in-Chief of the journal Slavonic Review [Slovanský přehled]

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

Member of Matica Crnogorska, Podgorica (since 2009)
Member of the International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (od 2018)
Member of the Czech Society for Slavonic, Balkan and Byzantine Studies [Česká společnost pro slavistická, balkanistická a byzantologická studia] (since 2019)

Significant awards

2008: Award of Miroslav Ivanov in the category III – for works of non-fiction authors up to 39 years of age for the book Montenegro. Brief history of States [Černá Hora. Stručná historie států]
2011: The Otto Wichterle Award to promising young scientists of the CAS
2021: 65th Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia Literary Competition for Manuscripts on Jewish Themes 2021, 2nd prize (Belgrade)