Primus Team












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            PRIMUS brings together an international research team from the US, UK, Israel and the Czec



            Irena Kalhousová, PhD (Primary Investigator)
            Irena is Head of Herzl Center of Israeli Studies and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty
            Sciences of Charles University. Irena specializes in Israel, relations between Central Eur

            and Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In her PhD (2019), she analysed the influenc
            on foreign policy of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic towards Israel. She holds PhD 

            London School of Economics & Political Science.




            Eugene Finkel, PhD (Senior Investigator)
            Eugene is an Associate Professor of International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University School

            International Studies (SAIS). His research focuses on how institutions and individuals res
            situations: violence, state collapse, and rapid change and the memory of these dramatic ev
            PhD in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.





            Hana Kubátová, PhD (Senior Investigator)
            Hana is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Her are
            include majority-minority relations in Slovakia, social history of the Holocaust, and the 

            between memory and robbery. She has degrees from both the Central European University and 
            University.




            Emmanuelle Blanc, PhD

            Emmanuaelle is currently an Assistant Professor in International Relations in the School o
            Science in the University of Haifa and in the Haifa Center for German and European Studies
            primary research interest lies in the study of EU foreign policy, diplomacy, and the role 

            in world politics. Expert in EU-Israel relations, Emmanuelle is also an affiliated Senior 
            Herzl Centre for Israel Studies at Charles University, Prague. She holds her PhD from the 
            Economics and Political Science (LSE).





            Rob Geist Pinfold, PhD
            Rob is a Leonard Davis Post-Doctoral Fellow in International Relations at the Hebrew Unive
            Jerusalem, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Herzl Center for Israel Studies at Charles Un

            Rob holds a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London. His research intersects grand s
            territorial conflict, with a focus on Israeli foreign and security policy.




            Zuzana Lizcová, PhD

            Zuzana serves as the head of the German and Austrian Studies Department and an Assistant P
            Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague. She focuses on German speaking coun
            in the international context and bilateral relations with the Czech Republic.






            Jiří Kocián, PhD
            Jiří is a researcher at the Department of Russian and Eastern European Studies of the Inst

            International Studies and coordinator of the Malach Center for Visual History at the Facul
            and Physics both at the Charles University. In his research, he focuses primarily on the m
            Romania and its contemporary development, contemporary populism, transitions to democracy 

            Bloc states, the history of Jews in the area of Southeastern and Central Eastern Europe an
            of digital technologies in social science research.




            Tereza Plíštilová 

            Tereza is a Ph.D. student at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social 
            University. In her Master’s thesis, she has focused on the Israel Defense Forces’ social m
            their construction of narratives during the Gaza protests. As part of her research, she sp

            at Tel Aviv University in Israel and attended Hebrew language school at Haifa University. 
            dissertation examines protest movements in the Middle East after the Arab Spring and their
            the media. At the Herzl Center, she is part of the PRIMUS project and a project which focu

            public attitudes towards Israel.