Members

Thomas R. Rocek 

Thomas R. Roček received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1985 and he is currently a senior lecturer of anthropology at the University of Delaware. His research interests include medium-sized companies, agricultural origins, mobility and sedentism, quantitative analysis, and in particular comparative approaches to archaeological analyses. Recently, these comparative interests have included both the formation period in the south-western United States as well as the Neolithic period in the Czech Republic. He is a member of the Society for American Archaeology, the American Anthropological Association, the European Association of Archaeologists, the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society and the Archaeological Society of New Mexico.

Thomas Aigner

Thomas Aigner, Dr. phil., MAS, born 1973, studies in history and historical auxiliary sciences in Vienna. Member of the Insititute for Austrian Historical Research in Vienna, since 1995 director of the St. Pölten diocesan archives. More than 80 publications on Austrian and central European history as well as on current questions in terms of archives in the digital era. Founder of the Monasterium-portal (www.monasterium.net) for medieval charters, of the Matricula-portal for church registers (www.matricula-online.eu) and of the international network “ICARUS – International Center for Archival Research”. Since 2008 president of ICARUS, since 2019 vice-president of the Time Machine Organisation among many other duties in various international and national bodies. Manifold activities in lecturing, vast experiences in managing European projects. Bearer of national and international awards such as the decoration of merits for the republic of Austria or the decoration of merits for Czech archives by the Czech ministry of the Interior.

Mark Risjord

Dr. Mark Risjord is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy and Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. in Philosophy at The University of North Carolina. His research primarily concerns methodological and conceptual issues in the sciences, including medicine and the social sciences.  He was a Fulbright Fellow to the Czech Republic in 2011-2012, and he has been awarded a number of national and international research grants.  He has published several books, including Woodcutters and Witchcraft: Rationality and Interpretive Change in the Social Sciences (2000), Nursing Knowledge: Science, Practice, and Philosophy (2009), Philosophy of Social Science: A Contemporary Introduction (2014), and (with David Henderson) The Dharma of Science: Philosophy of Science for Buddhist Scholars (2019). His essays have been published in American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Psychology, Perspectives on Science, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences and Synthese.

Étienne Boisserie

Étienne Boisserie is Professor of Central European Modern and Contemporary History, Czech and Slovak History at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, INALCO) in Paris and is member of its Scientific Board. He heads the Europe-Eurasia Research centre (CREE) at INALCO. He is also vice-head of the Slavic Studies Institute (Institut d’études slaves) in Paris, member of the Slovak Historical Society (Slovenská Historická spoločnosť) and of the Zahraničná redakčná rada of Forum Historiae (Bratislava).

His main research focus on the late 19^th and first half of Slovak history, especially focusing on the patriotic milieu in terms of cultural and political evolution and trends. He also recently focused on the Czech Lands and the Slovak counties’ evolution during the First World War and its immediate aftermaths. His last monography published in French is entitled Les Tchèques dans l’Autriche-Hongrie en guerre. “Nous ne croyons plus aucune promesse” (The Czechs in Austria-Hungary at war. “We do not believe any promises anymore”). He also published several studies in French, Italian, English and Slovak languages regarding those issues in the last few years. 

Dieter Norbert Plehwe

Dr. Plehwe is a senior research fellow in the Center for Civil Society Research at the Berlin Social Science Research Center (WZB) and Privatdozent at Kassel University, department of Political Science He studied political science, sociology, economics and history in Marburg and New York and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Philipps-University Marburg in 1997. He taught Political Sociology, Development  Studies, European Studies and International Political Economy courses at Philipps University Marburg, Yale University (2002-4), Free University Berlin, Vienna University (2008), and University of Kassel. He spent one year as a guest fellow at New York University’s International Center for Advanced Studies, participating in a project on the authority of knowledge in a global age (2004/5). He was a visiting fellow at the Mnda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University Fall and Winter 2016/7. His research interests are related to the larger question of the history and transformation of globalized capitalism, including regional integration in North America and Western Europe, the history and varieties of neoliberalism, transnational expert, consulting and lobby/advocacy networks, and the austerity related makeover of the welfare state. Plehwe serves as an editor of Critical Policy Studies. He is currently working on the global revitalization of entrepreneurship from the 1970s onward, on think tanks, stratification and hierarchy of policy relevant knowledge and on the selected relationship of Catholicism and Neoliberalism.

Hans-Jørgen Wallin Weihe

Hans-Jørgen Wallin Weihe is a professor of Social Work  at the Department of education at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Education In Lillehammer at the Inland University of Applied Sciences. He is one of the editors of the National Norwegian Encylopedia, member of the board of the literary society the Bjørnson Academy and a fellow of the Linnean Academy in London. Weihe has published within a variety of fields; social work history, general history,  problems of addiction, gaming and gambling disorders, doping, communication, empathy and trauma. His current research is on industrials disasters within the oil and energy sector  and on issues of identity and social change.

Marcin Dębicki

Marcin Dębicki is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology of Borderland, Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław. His research interest focuses upon a social face of Central Europe with a particular attention paid to the Polish neighbourhoods, including the borderlands. He is in favour of socio-cultural perspective with an emphasis on field study yet he does not abstract away from (geo)political issues in his analyses either. Aforementioned questions have been subject to his attention in 70 articles and a couple of essays. Specifically, they refer to all Polish borderlands and neighbourhoods and to some of other Central Eastern European states (Slovenia, Hungary, Estonia). He is also the author of three books (titles in translation): Czech stereotypes of Poles in the borderland—regional diversity and factors determining the state of affairs (2010) as well as (together with Julita Makaro) Attitudes to Lithuania and Lithuanians in the Eyes of Wrocław Residents (2016) and (together with Marta Cobel-Tokarska) Word and territory. Essays about Central Europe (2017). In cooperation with Julita Makaro he organized a series of scientific conferences and edited the subsequent seven Polish neighbourhoods volumes (published 2012–2020). Currently, he is engaged in a project concerning divided towns: Cieszyn/Český Těšín (Poland/Czechia) and Słubice/Frankfurt(Oder) (Poland/Germany). As an Erasmus exchange teacher, he had lectures in many Central and Eastern European universities, including Riga, Brno, Bratislava, Szeged, Pécs, Ljubljana, Cluj-Napoca, Zagreb, Skopje. Within the frames of the staff exchange programme he visited universities in Vilnius, Lviv and Prague.