Junior Fellows












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            Starting from 2018, The Herzl Center for Israel Studies is publishing regular calls for ap

            targeting junior researches (PhDs) whose work is in accordance with Centers’ main areas of
            The HCIS offers one doctoral fellowships a year. The fellow work under the supervision of 
            University faculty members. For additional information, please contact irena.kalhousova@fs

            "mailto:irena.kalhousova@fsv.cuni.cz"]






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            * 2021-2022
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            Tereza Plíštilová is a Ph.D. student at the Department of International Relations, Faculty

            Sciences, Charles University. In her Master’s thesis, she has focused on the Israel Defens
            media campaign and their construction of narratives during the Gaza protests. As part of h
            spent a semester at Tel Aviv University in Israel and attended Hebrew language school at H

            Her doctoral dissertation examines protest movements in the Middle East after the Arab Spr
            visibility in the media. At the Herzl Center, she is part of the PRIMUS project and a proj
            on the Czech public attitudes towards Israel.







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            * 2020-2022
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            Mansheetal Singh is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Sociological Studies at the Facu
            Sciences, Charles University in Prague. His research focuses on Indo-Judaic and Indo-Israe

            His academic interests include the study of Identity and Immigration of Jews in Israel. Hi
            thesis revolved around the Indian Jewish diaspora and state politics of Israel. In 2018, h
            an ethnographic research visit to Israel to study the culture and identity of Indian Jews,

            fellowship program at the Oxford University in 2019, organized by the Institute for the St
            Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) as an Elie Wiesel- Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar.








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            * 2018/2019
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            Jakub Střelec is a first year PhD student of Modern History at the Department of Austrian 
            Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. In his research, 

            comparative social and cultural history of psychiatry in Europe after 1945. Further resear
            history of historiography and methodology of social history. At the HCIS he is responsible
            administrative tasks and providing research support.



            Oleksandra Pekackova Modelska is a first year PhD student at the Department of Russian and

            Studies at Charles University. Oleksandra has a Master of Arts degree in International Rel
            and Diplomacy from Anglo-American University (AAU) in Prague. Her key interests are: the H
            historiography and Soviet Jewish emigration. In her own PhD research, she focuses on the H

            in Estonia. Her bachelor’s thesis analyzed the Soviet Jewish emigration and the concept of
            Refuseniks during President Carter’s administration.