Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Michaela Žáková

Department

• Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
  Arne Novaka 1, Brno 602 00
  Czech Republic
• Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University
  Jostova 10, Brno 602 00
  Czech Republic

Employment - Position

• Doctoral student, Deaprtment for the Study of Religions
• Research assistant, Office for Population Studies, Department of Sociology

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2017: Mgr. in the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, thesis: "Menstruation and „Everyday Spirituality“: Gender Identity and Conflicts over Women’s Body" (in Czech)
• 2014: Bc. in the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, thesis: "Potentials and Limits of Anthropological Concepts of Magic usage for Understanding the Contemporary Healing Practice Form" (in Czech)

Teaching Activities

• RLB541 Introduction to Qualitative Research: Starting Fieldwork, Observation and Interview

Scientific and Research Activities

• 2018 - present: researcher in the project TŘÍGENDO "GA18-08273S", Office for Population Studies, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University

Activities Outside University

• 2016: co-operation and creation of thematic passwords for the project "Online encyklopedie migrace" (http://encyklopedie.org/)

Other Scholarships

• 2019: scholarship program Creating and managing e-learning support for the course RLB541 "MUNI/FF-ELEARN/1731/2018"

Major Publications

• ŽÁKOVÁ, Michaela. Play with methods: Potentials of combining the narrative auto/biography with 'Garfinkel's ethnomethodological experiments'. In Methodology, Ethics, Writing and Visions in Ethnology and Social Anthropology Conference, Bratislava, 13-14 June 2019. 2019. URL info
• ŽÁKOVÁ, Michaela. Religion/Spirituality as a strategy to tackle every-day life issues? The cases of women using menstrual cups. In 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, Tartu, 25-29 June 2019. 2019. URL info
• SOURALOVÁ, Adéla a Michaela ŽÁKOVÁ. “Everybody Takes Care of Everybody” : Care Circulation and Care Relations in Three-Generation Cohabitation. Journal of Family Issues, Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publication, 2019, roč. 40, č. 17, s. 2628-2657. ISSN 0192-513X. doi:10.1177/0192513X19860177. URL info
• ŽÁKOVÁ, Michaela a Milan FUJDA. Laurel Zwissler. Religious, Feminist, Activist: Cosmologies of Interconnection (Book Review). Religio : revue pro religionistiku, Brno: Česká společnost pro religionistiku o.s., 2019, roč. 27, č. 1, s. 146-148. ISSN 1210-3640. URL info
• ŽÁKOVÁ, Michaela. Vliv užívání hormonální antikoncepce na vztah žen k vlastnímu tělu, menstruaci a ženství. In Studentská genderová konference Mezi meze, 30. 11. 2018, Brno. 2018. info

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