Faculty staff

Mgr. et Mgr. Tereza Menšíková

Researcher, Department of Sociology


Correspondence Address:
Joštova 218/10, 602 00 Brno

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Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information
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, roč. 24, č. 2, s. 64-82. ISSN 1527-6457. Dostupné z: https://dx.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. Alexandra David-Néelová a její cesta do Lhasy : portrét orientalistiky v zrcadle Tibetu. Sacra. 2020, roč. 2020, č. 1, s. 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, 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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