Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Tereza Menšíková
• 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

Employment - Position

• 2024-: researcher, Centre for the Digital Research of Religion (CEDRR), Department for the Studies of Religions, FF MU
• 2020-2025: researcher, Department of Sociology, FSS MU
• 2022: leading researcher of IGA project, Department for the Studies of Religions, FF MU
• 2020: researcher, Office for Population Studies, FSS MU

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2025: PhD, in the Study of Religions (Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts), dissertation: "Digital Mobilization: Ambedkarite Buddhism and Discourses of Change in Contemporary Anti-Caste Online Activism (English)"
• 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

• (2025) Decolonial and Postcolonial Approaches in Social Sciences
• (2024-2025) Social Movement and Political Protest
• (2025) Digital Data in the Study of Religions: From Catalogue to Table and Graph

Internship and Stays for the Purpose of Study or Work

• 2025/05/05 – 2025/06/03: Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux (UMR 8216, EHESS/CNRS), Paris, FR
• 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"
• 2017-2022: Sacra journal editorial board member

Activities Outside University

Membership in organisations:
• The Czech Sociological Association
• The Czech Association for the Study of Religions
• European Sociological Association (RN25 Social Movements)
• International Sociological Association (RC48 Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change)

Awards Related to Science and Research

• 2025: Dean's Award of the FF, Masaryk University, for outstanding doctoral thesis
• 2025: Vice-Rector's Award of Masaryk University for excellent results in doctoral studies in the academic year 2024/2025
• 2024: The Jacques Derrida Prize (2nd) for Social Sciences and Humanities awarded by the Embassy of France in the Czech Republic
• 2020: Dean's Award For Outstanding MA Thesis

Major Publications

• MENŠÍKOVÁ, Tereza. The Intersection of Age and Gender in the Experience of Older Men Living in Temporary Housing in Czechia. The Journal of Men’s Studies. SAGE Publications, 2025, roč. 33, č. 3, s. 592-612. ISSN 1060-8265. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/10608265251332508. article - open access info
• MENŠÍKOVÁ, Tereza. Reviving Buddhism in Western India : Pluralism and Cultural Hybridization in the Ambedkarite Buddhist Movement(s). Religio: A Journal for the Study of Religions. Česká společnost pro religionistiku, 2025, roč. 33, č. 2, s. 275-294. ISSN 1210-3640. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2025-41628. URL info
• 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, roč. 24, č. 2, s. 64-82. ISSN 1527-6457. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.26034/lu.jgb.2023.3840. URL info
• MENŠÍKOVÁ, Tereza. Aktivismus pod záštitou dhammy : Buddhismus jako cesta dalitů z útlaku? In A2 – neklid na kulturní frontě. 2020. Indie bojuje. 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, roč. 26, č. 1, s. 91-95. ISSN 1210-3640. info
• VRZAL, Miroslav a Tereza MENŠÍKOVÁ. Stávání se religionistou: Internalizace vědecké identity v počátcích studia religionistiky a její důsledky pro vztah studentů k náboženství. Sacra. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, roč. 13, č. 1, s. 7-23. ISSN 1214-5351. Digitální knihovna FF MU info

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