Welcome!

I am a historian and political scholar exploring how ideologies take root, evolve, and endure in times of upheaval. My research focuses on the interplay between structural forces and individual agency, with particular attention to mid-level actors in fascist and communist East-Central Europe.

Currently, I am investigating the postwar trajectories of mid-level fascists who joined the communist party—examining their motivations, adaptations, and the regimes that made space for them.

I am Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, where I teach courses on antisemitism, race in global politics, and the politics of apology and regret.

My primary expertise lies in the Holocaust and its aftermath. I take an integrated approach in my writing, tracing how attitudes, ideologies, and emotions develop, connect, and persist across time. My work has appeared in Nations & Nationalism, Contemporary European History, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, and East European Politics & Societies. Most recently, I published a new article in the Journal of Genocide Research.

My latest book, Christian Nationalism, Nation-Building, and the Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia, was published by Oxford University Press in 2025. The Slovak edition became an instant bestseller.

I have served as principal investigator or senior researcher in projects supported by all major national and European funding schemes. I am currently a senior scholar in Beyond Security, the largest EU-funded research project in Czechia.