Biography
Born 1995 in Prague (Czech Republic), Dr. phil MA MA
2014-2018 MA in Politics and History at the University of Glasgow. 2017-2019 research associate at the Institute of International Relations in Prague: research and publications on the topic of emotions in International Relations. In 2018, research on Northeast Asian politics at the institute’s Center for EU-Asia Relations. 2018-2020, MA in China Studies with a focus on Politics and International Relations at Peking University’s Yenching Academy and recipient of its full scholarship. 2018-2019 leading of a Yenching Academy funded Dean’s Grant project mapping 30 museums and memorial sites across China devoted to the memorialization of China’s WWII experience under Japanese occupation. Further expansion of the research on China's WWII museums in her MA thesis. 2020-2025 PhD in Political Science focusing on WWII museums in Xi Jinping Era China at the University of Vienna. For this purpose, she was employed in the GMM project at the Institute of Culture Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences from September 2020 to May 2024. 2024-2025, Junior Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. Eternal lecturer at University of Vienna and Vienna University of Economics and Business and Adjunct faculty at Webster Vienna Private University. From March 2026, postdoctoral researcher at the ÖAW-IKW leading APART-GSK project “Globalization of Forgetting? Politics of Oblivion and Domestic State Violence in Transnational Comparative Perspective”.
Areas of Specialization
Memory politics in China with the focus on Sino-Japanese War. Political narratives and critical theory in Political Science. The emotional turn in International Relations.
Publications
Journal Articles (4)
One Past, Two Histories: Exhibiting the Shanghai Jewish Refugees in China and Austria in Comparative Perspective, S:I.M.O.N. – SHOAH: INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION. 13, no. 1 (2026): 35-59.
The Internationalization of Museums of the Chinese War of Resistance in the Xi Era: China as a ‘Guarantor of Peace’ and ‘Rescuer of Jews’, Holocaust and Genocide Studies 39, no. 3 (2025): 473–491.
Survivors, victims and soldiers as figures of nationalism: Representations of women in the War of Resistance against Japan museums in mainland China, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 8, no. 2 (2022): 291-309.
When War Feels Right: Emotions and the Origins of International Conflict, [X]position 2 (2017): 1-6.
Other Publications (5)
Čína a Politika Paměti Druhé Světové Války, Mezinárodní Politika. (December 2025)
Exile without Destination: The Disappearance of the City from Exhibits Devoted to Jewish Refugees in Shanghai, VWI im Fokus. (Fall 2025)
Korean Summits: Is a ‘Spring Coming’ to the Peninsula?, Mezinárodní Politika, 26.24.2018.
Pyongchang OG: An Opening for a Moonshine Policy?, Mezinárodní Politika, 02.02.2018 .
Feelings of a ‘Human Bomb’: Psychology of Suicide Missions, Mezinárodní Politika, 12.07.2017.