Research Team

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PhDr. Přemysl Mácha, Ph.D., coordinator of the Czech team, works as an assistant professor of anthropology and cultural geography at the Department of Human Geography, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is interested in identity politics, landscape, inclusive communities, and sustainability. He is the author of several books and articles, including Názvy míst: paměť, identita, kulturní dědictví which addresses questions of contemporary and everyday place naming practices.

Email: premysl.macha@osu.cz

Ursula Obrusnik MRes, MA, a researcher on the Czech team, is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen (UK). She is interested in issues of belonging, minority rights, politics of memory and contemporary urban spaces. Her previous research looked at minority representation in the media. She is a member of the Polish minority in the Czech Republic. Within our project, she focuses on the politics of memory and the anthropology of borders in the context of the cities of Český Těšín and Cieszyn.

Email: ursula.obr@gmail.com

Mgr. Pavel Pilch, a researcher on the Czech team, works as an assistant professor of Slavic philology at Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno where he is also pursuing his Ph.D. He is a native to the research area and speaks the local dialect. Within our project, he focuses on the politics of toponymy in the rural context.

Email: pilch@phil.muni.cz

Horst Lassak, a researcher on the Czech team, is a master’s student of political and cultural geography at the Department of Human Geography, University of Ostrava. Within the project, he analyzes the toponymic history of street names in Český Těšín and Cieszyn with a particular emphasis on the impact of Czech and Polish nationalism on the city text.

Email: p15053@student.osu.cz

Peter Jordan, Ph.D., Honorary and Associate Professor, coordinator of the Austrian team, cultural and regional geographer with a focus on the eastern part of Europe, toponymist with a focus on the role of place names in relating man and place as well as the endonym/exonym divide; works at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Urban and Regional Research, teaches at the universities of Vienna, Klagenfurt and Cluj-Napoca (Romania); Chair, Austrian Board on Geographical Names; Vice-Chair, Permanent Committee on Geographical Names; Convenor, UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms; Vice-Chair, Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy; co-editor of the book series “Name & Place”, more than 350 publications.

Email: peter.jordan@oeaw.ac.at

Marika Balode, BA, researcher of the Austrian team, slavist and geographer, currently pursuing a MA at the Institute of Geography and Regional Research, University of Klagenfurt; speaks five languages, interested in space-related identities, intercultural relations and minority situations.

Email: marika.balode@gmail.com‎

Alexis Sancho Reinoso, BA, MSc., Ph.D, researcher of the Austrian team, geographer with a special interest in intercultural relations, regional development and rural space; acquired his academic grades at the University of Barcelona, works at the Centre for Global Change and Sustainability, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna; participant in several research projects, a.o. “Current developments in regional economy and community building in the rural space of Romania and Austria”.

Email: sancho.reinoso@gmail.com