We welcome Hana Kubátová to the ECPR Executive Committee

Following the sudden passing of Oddbjørn Knutsen only 15 months after his election to the Executive Committee of the ECPR, the EC has decided to co-opt Hana Kubátová, Charles University in Prague, to serve as a member of the EC until April 2021.

Hana was the leading local organiser of the ECPR General Conference in Prague in 2016, and will become a member of our Events Subcommittee.

Hana has accepted the role and will start with immediate effect. In agreement with our Constitution, the ECPR’s Council will be asked to ratify her appointment during its next meeting at the General Conference in Innsbruck, 2020.

Speaking to ECPR on the occasion of her appointment, Hana told us: 

‘Any good research needs a community that is welcoming and engaged, one that inspires you, even challenges you to raise new questions and rethink your ideas… this is what ECPR means to me, and I am looking forward to contributing to the manifold events that make this association into what it is: a community.’ 

About Hana

Hana Kubátová is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Since 2018, she has headed up the Center for the Transdisciplinary Research of Violence, Trauma and Justice (VITRI).

Hana studied political science and international relations at Charles University, nationalism studies at Central European University in Budapest, and modern history at Charles University. Throughout her doctoral and postdoctoral studies, she has held research positions at Tel Aviv University, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Institute of Advanced Study at CEU.
 
Hana has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Marie Curie Fellowship for Early Research Training, Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship, Felix Posen Fellowship, Gisela Fleischmann Scholarship, and more recently, the Junior Core Fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Study, CEU.

Her research interests include majority-minority relations in wartime and postwar Slovakia, identity construction, and microdynamics of (ethnic) violence. Hana has published in English, German, Slovakian, Czech, and Hungarian.