People

 

 

 

Mgr. Elena Gallová Kriglerová

 

Elena Gallová Kriglerová (1980) graduated from the Department of Sociology at the Comenius University’s Faculty of Arts in Bratislava (2003). Recently she is finalizing her PhD studies at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno.

 

Elena Gallová Kriglerová worked in the Institute for Public Affairs as an analyst in 2001-2005. She participated in preparation, implementation and processing of number of research projects, such as follows: Socio-graphic Mapping of Roma communities in Slovakia (2003 - 2004), Roma Political Participation (2002 and 2005), Roma Human Development Project (2001 - 2002). Since 2003 she has been participating on the RAXEN project of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, which aims to provide EU with information about racism and xenophobia in European Union member states.

 

Since January 2006 she operates at the Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture as a research fellow, since May 2012 she serves as a director of the CVEK. Elena Gallová Kriglerová focuses on issues of racism and xenophobia, poverty, marginalization and social exclusion of ethnic groups and especially on education of Roma children in Slovakia.

 

 

Dr. Jarmila Lajčáková

 

Dr. Jarmila Lajčáková studied sociology and law at the Comenius University, graduating with honours in 2000. She continued with her graduate legal studies at the Faculty of Law, the University of Toronto, where she has earned her Master in Laws (LLM) in 2002 and her Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) in 2007. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Ethnocultural Justice for the Roma in Slovakia, introduces a theory of national minority rights based on a contextual understanding of ethnocultural justice. Her thesis not only defends a normative account of what ethnocultural justice for the Roma means, but also introduces an institutional proposal of a personal cultural autonomy that can advance both cultural and socio-economic empowerment of the Roma.

 

Dr. Jarmila Lajčáková has held various fellowships, including the Robert Law Fellowship in Legal Ethics (2006), the International Programme on Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Research Fellowship (2005) and the University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship (2003-2007). She has published on minority rights, Roma, discrimination, human rights and corruption in both Slovak and English.

 

From 2002-2003, Dr. Jarmila Lajčáková worked as a research consultant for Transparency International in Slovakia. Then, from 2003-2004, she worked as an advisor to the Section of Human Rights and Minorities, in the Slovak Government. She was involved, among other things, in the preparation of the government strategy on the integration of Romani communities, adopted in 2003. She also co-authored an amicus brief in 2004 concerning the constitutionality of affirmative action in Slovakia, submitted by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister on the topic of Human Rights and Minorities. In 2005, Dr. Jarmila Lajčáková prepared a legal analysis on the Draft Treaty on the Protection of Conscientious Objection between Slovakia and the Holy See for an NGO Pro Choice, Slovakia. The legal analysis provided helped to prevent adoption of the draft treaty. During her doctoral studies, Dr. Jarmila Lajčáková worked as a research assistant for Professor Patrick Macklem. Since 2006 Dr. Jarmila Lajčáková participates on the project Ethnicity and Democratic Governance leaded by Prof. Will Kymlicka of the Queen’s University, Canada.

 

Dr. Jarmila Lajčáková joined Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture in February 2007 and, since September 2007, she has been lecturing at the Department of the International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Social and Economic Studies, Comenius University. Her lecture course, International Human Rights Protection and Culture and Rights: The Theory and Practice of Multiculturalism, is taught in English following the North American method of seminar-led teaching.

 

 

Mgr. Jana Kadlečíková

 

Jana Kadlečíková (1979) graduated from the Department of Sociology at the Comenius University’s Faculty of Arts in Bratislava. In 2001 and 2005 she worked in the Institute for Public Affairs as an analyst. She participated in preparation, implementation and processing of number of research projects, such as follows: Sociographic Mapping of Roma Communities in Slovakia (2003 - 2004), Roma Political Participation (2002 and 2005) and international comparative research Roma Human Development Project (2001 - 2002). She also co-authored publication "Roma Voices" (2002) and the chapter "Roma" in yearly published Global Report on the State of Society (2004, 2005).

 

Since 2003 she has been participating in the RAXEN project, which is European network of organizations established by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC). The main activity within this project is focused on data collection on the state of racism, xenophobia and discrimination in Slovakia for international comparison at the level of European Union. Since 2006 she has been active within the Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture. She specializes on quantitative and qualitative research of ethnicity in modern society, expert analyses of the state policy toward marginalized groups of citizens and present shifts of the social policy.

 

 

Mgr. Alena Chudžíková, MSc.

 

Alena Chudžíková (1984) graduated from the Department of Psychology at the Trnava University and from the School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex in Brighton. In her studies of social psychology she focused on issues such as prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination. She has been intrigued by socio-cultural and psychological adaptation of migrants from the Central Europe on the life and work in the Great Britain. As a research assistant she took part on an international research project focused on cultural dimensions of individualism and collectivism among migrants in the Great Britain. Alena Chudžíková operates at the Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture since september 2009.

 

 

Mgr. Zuzana Bargerová

 

Zuzana Bargerová (1977) graduated from the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava (2001). She operates as an independent legal expert in the sphere of migration law and integration of migrants in the Slovak republic. In 2005-2008 she has been offering legal advice to clients of the Migration information center of the IOM and she participated on the research „Integration of migrants in the Slovak republic: recommendations and challenges for policy-makers". In 2009 she collaborated on projects of the Institute of Public Policy of the Faculty of Social and Economic Studies at the Comenius University, she also assisted on preparation of integration policy at the Ministry of Labor, social affairs, and family of the Slovak republic. Zuzana Bargerová collaborates with International Organization for Migration within activities of the European Migration Network. Since january 2010 she operates at the Center for the research of ethnicity and culture and in the League for Human Rights.

 

 

Mgr. Tina Gažovičová

 

Mgr. Tina Gažovičová /born Gyarfášová/ (1986) received her Bc. degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the Masaryk University in Brno (2008) and her Mgr. degree in Public Policy from the Comenius University in Bratislava (2010). Currently she is an intern PhD. student at the Institute for Public Policy at the Faculty for Social and Economic Sciences. In her dissertation project she focuses on language policies regarding children from ethnic and language minorities. She attended a program for international students at the University of Haifa in Israel (2009) and an internship at the Municipality of Vienna, the department for integration and diversity, MA 17 (2010). Her interests are policies for the integration of migrants, the education of children from ethnic and language minorities, and the identity of Jews of the third post-war generation. She operates at the Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture since June 2009.

 

 

Former collaborators of CVEK:

 

PhDr. Michal Vašečka, PhD.

(2006 - 2012)

 

Ing. Miroslav Kollár

(2006 - 2011)

 

Mgr. Zuzana Kerestešová 

(2006 - 2007) 

 

 

External collaborators of CVEK:

 

Mgr. Peter Hlohinec, MA.

(2008 - 2009)

Institute of Cultural Studies

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Ing. et Mgr. Tereza Modráková

(2009)

Department of Sociology

Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University Brno

 

Vanja Petričević, MA.

(2009 - 2010)

Georgia State University, Atlanta

 

Bc. Zuzana Nováková

(2009 - 2011)

Institute of European Studies and International Affairs

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Bc. Monika Náglová

(2010 - 2011)

Department of Sociology

Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University Brno

 

Mgr. Martin Vančo

(2011)

Institute of Public Policy and Economics

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava

 

 

Interns in CVEK:

 

Darina Ondrušová

(2007 - 2008)

Institute of European Studies and International Affairs

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Lucia Kováčová

(2008)

Department of Political Science

Faculty of Art, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Alexander Platzner

(2008)

Department of Political Science

Faculty of Art, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Lukáš Michalovič

(2008)

Department of Political Science

Faculty of Art, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Monika Bandúrová

(2008)

Institute of Public Policy

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Katarína Kopčíková

(2008)

Institute of European Studies and International Affairs

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Zuzana Némethová

(2008-2009)

Institute of European Studies and International Affairs

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Petra Hayek

(2009)

BISLA Bratislava

 

Veronika Lacková

(2010)

Institute of European Studies and International Affairs

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Lucia Záhorová

(2010)

Department of Political Science

Faculty of Art, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Dominika Hriníková

(2011)

Institute of European Studies and International Affairs

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Katarína Medlová

(2011)

Institute of European Studies and International Affairs

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Barbora Matašová

(2011)

Institute of European Studies and International Affairs

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Bc. Eva Saganová

(2011 - 2012)

Department of Human Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava

 

Mgr. Adrienn Gyory

(2011 - 2012)

Nationalism Studies, Central European University