Position: 
Senior Researcher
Phone: 
210 310 227
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227

Curriculum vitae

Education: 

Petr Vašát is a social anthropologist. Using various methods and tools, such as ethnography, social networks analysis, photovoice or GPS tracking, his research is focused on the comparative study of architecture/art/design and poverty, informality and city, and the temporal, spatial, and social dimensions of street culture. In the past, he had held visiting positions at Columbia University (Fulbright-Masaryk Fellowship), Universidad del Rosario (UR Research Fellowship), Central European University (Junior Core Fellowship) and Harvard University (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Research Fellow). Since 2021, he has worked also as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow the Georg-Simmel Center for Urban Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

  • 2008 - 2013: Ph.D., Ethnology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia
  • 2006 - 2008: M.A., Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia
  • 2003 - 2006: B.A., Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia
Teaching activities: 
  • 2023: Urban Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of West Bohemia (in Czech)
  • 2013 - 2016, 2018: Qualitative Methodology, Department of Sociology, University of Hradec Kralove (in Czech)
  • 2016 - 2017: Sociology of Post-socialism, Department of Sociology, University of Hradec Kralove (in English)
  • 2015 - 2016: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Department of Sociology, University of Hradec Kralove (in Czech)
  • 2015: Urban Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Hradec Kralove (in Czech)
  • 2015: Reading Sociological Papers, Department of Sociology, University of Hradec Kralove (in Czech)
  • 2013: Methodology of Social Sciences, Department of Social Sciences, University of Pardubice (in Czech)
  • 2011: Anthropology of Gender and Social Networks, Department of Anthropology, University of West Bohemia (in Czech)
Foreign scholarships, fellowships or other academic study abroad: 
  • 2021 - 2023 (24 months): Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University, United States
  • 2021 - 2024: Georg-Simmel Center for Urban Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
  • 2020 - 2021 (nine months): Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University, Hungary
  • 2019 (three months): Universidad del Rosario, Escuela de Ciencias Humanas, Colombia
  • 2017 - 2018 (nine months): Columbia University, Department of Sociology, United States
  • 2016 (two weeks): University of Roehampton, Department of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • 2016 (week): University of Coimbra, Faculty of Economics, Portugal
  • 2013 (week): University of Kent, School of Anthropology and Conservation, United Kingdom
  • 2011 (month): Durham University, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
  • 2008 (two weeks): The University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science, Social Anthropology, United Kingdom
Biographic information: 
  • 2023 - up to now: member of International Sociological Associtation (ISA)
  • 2021 - up to now: member of Urban and Regional Development (RC 21 of ISA)
  • 2019: member of Regional Studies Association
  • 2018: member of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
  • 2014 - up to now: editorial board of AntropoWebzin journal
  • 2013 - up to now: editorial board of Sociální pedagogika / Social Education journal
  • 2013, 2015: member of International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)  
  • 2013: member of Masaryk Czech Sociological Association
  • 2008 – 2009: editor-in-chief of journal AntropoWebzin

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