Jaroslava Gajdosova

Jaroslava Gajdosova earned her PhD in Sociology from The New School for Social Research. She was a research fellow at Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Humboldt Universität Berlin, and Columbia University, and has published on contemporary sociological theories and on German collective memory and identity.

Currently she is an external researcher at Justus-Liebig University in Giessen where she studies how film and literary narratives shape political and cultural identities of post-communist societies in Central-Eastern Europe. Her research has two foci: 1) relationship between cultural memory and political identity of post-communist societies, and 2) self-othering as a mode of post-communist feminine identity. Her theoretical interest lies in critical, poststructural, and phenomenological theories and their application to the qualitative research models.

Jaroslava has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in social theory, methods, collective identities, and gender in Prague and New York.