Salim Murad
salim.murad@email.cz
Salim Murad is a lecturer in Political Science at the Faculty of Education at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. He also teaches the course Advertising and Society at New York University in Prague.
Murad graduated from the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno with a degree in Political Science. He obtained his PhD. at the Department of Political Science at Comenius University in Bratislava. From April to June 2003, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. He also studied at the Institute of Political Science, Copenhagen University in 2004.
His research interests include the current development of migration flows from the perspective of the Czech Republic in uniting Europe and the European Union and its impact on domestic policy development during the transition to democracy and the consolidation of democracy since 1989.
Main responsibilities within EMMIR:
~ Course Director
~ Development and implementation of the Czech module content
~ Teaching, tutoring, supervision (securitization of migration, migration and the Czech Republic, Roma in the Czech Republic, public opinion, immigration and populism in Europe)
~ Assistance with internships, etc.
Michal Šimůnek
simunek.michal@gmail.com
Since 2004, Michal Šimůnek has worked as a lecturer at the Department of Social Science, Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia, where he has taught sociology, anthropology, semiotics and media literacy. He also teaches courses in theory of visual culture, visual methods and sociology of photography at Masaryk University in Brno and courses in media studies and journalism at the Department of Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts, University of South Bohemia.
Šimůnek graduated from the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno with a M.A. degree in Media Studies and Journalism. He obtained his PhD. at the Department of Sociology (thesis on the epistemology of visual social sciences) at the same university.
He deals with photography (technical images) and hypermedia, he inquire into their semiological and sociological interpretation and into the possibilities and limits of their use in teaching and research. His empirical research activities include the issues related to the concepts of representation, identity and otherness. He is engaged in promotion of visual and digital methods, experimental ways of scientific storytelling and creative approaches to social research.
Main responsibilities within EMMIR:
~ Development and implementation of the Czech module content
~ Teaching, tutoring, supervision (visual and digital social sciences)
~ Website administration
Anna Maršíková
anna.marsikova@gmail.com
Anna Maršíková has been working as a research assistant at the Department of Social Sciences at the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia since 2008. In the fall semester 2011, she taught a course ‘Intercultural Education’ at the Faculty of Health and Social Studies, USB.
In 2009 Anna Maršíková obtained a Bachelor degree in French Language for European and International Business at the Faculty of Arts at the University of South Bohemia, where she wrote a Bachelor thesis on the issue of ‘Blue Cards’ for third countries nationals in the EU. Currently, she is finishing her studies of the program Joint Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations.
Anna Maršíková focuses on topics of emigration and its influence on countries of origin, migration in the Czech Republic and intercultural education.
Main responsibilities within EMMIR:
~ Administration, finances
~ Preparing of readers, materials
~ Assistance with internships and practicalities
~ Facebook administration
~ Tutoring reading groups
