Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Tereza Menšíková, born on 6th June 1994 in Prostějov
• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2823-3263

Department

• Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
• Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Jostova 218/10, 602 00 Brno

Employment - Position

• PhD student (Department for the Study of Religions FF MU)
• researcher (Department of Sociology FSS MU)
• researcher (Department for the Study of Religions FF MU CEDRR)

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2020-present: doctoral program, Department for the Study of Religions FF MU, Brno
• 2021: Mgr., (M.A.) in Sociology (Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Sciences), thesis: "Ageing on the Street: Trajectories of Older Homeless People in Relation to Social and Health Care Institutions" (CZ)
• 2020: Mgr. (M.A.) in the Study of Religions (Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts), thesis: "Dalits in the Light of Dhamma: Tension between Tradition and Modernity as a Shaping Process of the Collectiveness of Ambedkarite Buddhists" (ENG)
• 2017: Bc., in the Study of Religions (Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts), thesis: "Motives of Students for Leaving the Study of Religions with the Focus on a Tension between University Studies and Student’s Spiritual Identity" (CZ)

Scientific and Research Activities

Research Grants


• 2022: MUNI/IGA/1164/2021 - "Challenging Marginalisation Online: The Case of Dalit Movement Network Through Blog and News Platforms"; leading researcher, Department for the Study of Religions FF MU
  
  
Participation in Research Projects


• 2024-2028: OP JAK - "Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building (CoRe)", CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004595, Department for the Study of Religions FF MU
• 2023-2027: COST Action CA22167 - Participatory Approaches with Older Adults (PAAR-net), WG1 leader Health, Care and Support
• 2023-2025: GACR GA23-05047S - "Institutions of Ageing Men"; research specialist, Department of Sociology FSS MU
• 2023-2024: GACR GA23-07114S - "Between revolution and crisis: Emergence, evolution and re-structuring of economic protest in post-socialist context"; research specialist, Department of Sociology FSS MU
• 2020-2021: TACR TJ03000002 - "A life course perspective on the GENdered PATHways of Social exclusion in later life, and its consequences for health and wellbeing (GENPATH)"; research specialist, Department of Sociology FSS MU
• 2020-2021: TACR TL02000362 - "The use of the humanoid robot in promoting active ageing in older men and women (HUMR)"; research specialist, Department of Sociology FSS MU
• 2015-2019: student research assistant, Department for the Study of Religions FF MU

Teaching Activities

• RLMgA005 Religion and the Body (2021-2024)
• RLB405 Religion and Violence (2020-2022)
• RLMgA004 Power, Authority, Tradition (2020-2022)
• SOCb2022 Doing social research in older and other difficult-to-acces populations (2021)

Internship and Stays for the Purpose of Study or Work

• 2023/01/23 – 2023/03/20: Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, MU Faculty Partner Institutions Exchange Programme, IND
• 2022/07/25 – 2022/08/05: Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis (2F Quantitative Text Analysis), Colchester, UK
• 2019/04/01 – 2019/04/30: University of Vienna, Vienna, CEEPUS, AUT
• 2017/09/01 – 2017/10/31: Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, MU Faculty Partner Institutions Exchange Programme, IND
• 2017/04/03 – 2017/04/30: University of Vienna, Vienna, CEEPUS, AUT

University Activities

• 2020-present: member of the Centre for Research on Ageing (CERA), Department of Sociology FSS MU
• 2019-2022: Sacra Journal editor-in-chief
• 2019: the chief organizer of the MUNI 100 project "Ženy na FF MU v minulosti a dnes"
• 2017-present: Sacra journal editorial board member

Awards Related to Science and Research

• 2024: The Jacques Derrida Prize (2nd) for Social Sciences and Humanities awarded by the Embassy of France in the Czech Republic
• 2020: Dean´s Prize For Outstanding MA Thesis, 2nd prize: "Dalits in the Light of Dhamma: Tension between Tradition and Modernity as a Shaping Process of the Collectiveness of Ambedkarite Buddhists" (ENG)

Major Publications

• MENŠÍKOVÁ, Tereza. Negotiating Boundaries Between "Religious" and "Secular" : A Struggle for the Sense of Collectivity Among Ambedkarite Buddhists in Maharashtra. Journal of Global Buddhism. Luzern: University of Lucerne, 2023, vol. 24, No 2, p. 64-82. ISSN 1527-6457. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.26034/lu.jgb.2023.3840. URL info
• MENŠÍKOVÁ, Tereza. Aktivismus pod záštitou dhammy : Buddhismus jako cesta dalitů z útlaku? (Activism under Shield of Dhamma: Buddhism as a Way of Dalits from Oppression?). In A2 – neklid na kulturní frontě. 2020. Indie bojuje. URL info
• MENŠÍKOVÁ, Tereza. Alexandra David-Néelová a její cesta do Lhasy : portrét orientalistiky v zrcadle Tibetu (Alexandra David-Néel and Her Journey to Lhasa : The Image of Oriental Studies in the Mirror of Tibet). Sacra. 2020, vol. 2020, No 1, p. 34-38. ISSN 1214-5351. URL info
• MENŠÍKOVÁ, Tereza. Fárek, Martin; Jalki, Dunkin; Pathan, Sufiya; Shah, Prakash (eds.). Western Foundations of the Caste System [review]. Religio : revue pro religionistiku. Česká společnost pro religionistiku, 2018, vol. 26, No 1, p. 91-95. ISSN 1210-3640. info
• VRZAL, Miroslav and Tereza MENŠÍKOVÁ. Stávání se religionistou: Internalizace vědecké identity v počátcích studia religionistiky a její důsledky pro vztah studentů k náboženství (Becoming Scholar of the Study of Religions: The Internalization of a Scholar’s Identity in the Beginning of the Academic Study of Religions and Its Influence on Students’ Relationship to Religions). Sacra. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, vol. 13, No 1, p. 7-23. ISSN 1214-5351. Digitální knihovna FF MU info

2024/09/11

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