Jiří Lach

Name and Surname: Jiří Lach

Nationality: Czech

Current position

Professor: since November 2015, Department of Politics and European (hereafter DPES), Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic (hereafter FF UP)

Head of the Department: since April 2023, DPES FF UP

Important positions in the university administration

Dean: February 1, 2010–January 31, 2018, Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Arts (two maximum terms)

Vice-rector for organization and development: February 1, 2018–December 31, 2020, Palacký University

Education, scientific and academic degrees

Professor in History: November 2015, UP

Professor (Johann-Gottfried-Herder Chair in Eastern European Studies – W3, DAAD): November 2008–October 2009, Friedrich Schiller Universität in Jena (est. 1409), Germany

Doc. (Habilitation, second doctorate) in History: August 2006, FF UP

Ph.D. in Political Science: June 2000, FF UP

PhDr. (small doctorate) in History: June 2005, FF UP

M.A. in Sociology: December 1996, Central European University, Prague College; accredited by Lancaster University (included courses on nationalism by Ernest Gellner)

Mgr. in Political Science: June 1996, FF UP

Mgr. in History: June 1996, FF UP

Previous positions (since 2000)

Head of the Department: September 2007–June 2010, DPES FF UP

Deputy Head of the Department: February–August 2007, DPES FF UP

Associate Professor: August 2006–October 2015, DPES FF UP

Assistant Professor: September 2000–June 2006, DPES FF UP

Research interest

Genocide, historiography, development of international system, political systems

Foreign research and teaching experience – selection

DAAD Fellowship, Friedrich Schiller Universität in Jena, Germany, November 2008–October 2009, Professor (Johann-Gottfried-Herder Chair in Eastern European Studies – W3, DAAD):

Louis Brown Scholarship, Valdosta State University, GA, USA; August–December 2006, Political Science and History Departments (courses: Central European Political Systems a Central European History Since 1945)

Fulbright Fellowship: United States Military Academy, West Point, USA; January–June 2003, Department of Social Sciences (course: Comparative Politics)

Fellowships, Grants and Awards – selection

Grants (1. donor; 2. title; 3. duration; 4. further details)

1. Czech Science Foundation (GAČR); 2. Centre for transdisciplinary research of cultural phenomena in the history of Central Europe: image, communication, action (14-36521G); 3. 2014–2018; 4. Centre of excellence (head of the co-researching partner for Palacký University)
2. Czech Science Foundation (GAČR); 2. Laichter’s Project Czech History (404/06/1151); 3. 2007–2009
3. Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences; 2. International historical congresses and Czechoslovak historiography 1918-1938 (GAAV, Junior grant, KJB8138402); 3. 2004–2006

Stipends

1. DAAD; 2. Johann-Gottfried-Herder Chair in Eastern European Studies (professor / W3) Friedrich Schiller Universität in Jena, Germany; 3. November 2008 – October 2009
2. Valdosta State University, GA, USA; 2. Louis Brown Scholarship (courses: Central European Political Systems a Central European History Since 1945) 3. August–December 2006
3. Fulbright Foundation, Washington, USA; 2. Fulbright Scholar (USMA, West Point, NY, USA); 3. January–June 2003

Awards

Palacký University Memorial Medal (for the service to Palacký University as the dean of the Faculty of Arts): February 2018

Palacký University Rector's Award for Scientific Monograph (Josef Borovička: A Czech historian in the 20^th century. Praha, Academia 2009): November 2010

Commander’s Award for Public Service; United States Military Academy, West Point:  June 2003

The William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Acknowledgement: October 2003

Membership in professional organizations and further positions

International Association of Genocide Scholars since 2021

The Czech Political Science Association: since 2002

Czech Historical Association: since October 2005

International Commission on History and Theory of Historiography: 2005–2008

Member of the Editorial Board of Český časopis historický [The Czech Historical Review, Scopus]: since 2007

Czech National Historical Committee: since 2011

Scientific Council, Palacký University: since February 2010

Scientific Council, Palacký University, Faculty of Arts: since February 2010

Scientific Council, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts: 2011–2016, since 2018

Scientific Council, Masaryk University, Brno, Faculty of Social Sciences: since 2017

Doctoral committees: Political Science (FF UP), Contemporary History (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)

Study program organization and courses taught

War and Peace Studies (N0312A200022) – M.A. program, FF UP – Guarantor

Nation, State and Revolution (M.A. level, taught in English)

Development of International Systems (M.A., Eng)

Genocides in the World from 1915 until present (M.A., Eng)

Genocides as a Tool and Problem of Foreign Policy (M.A., Eng)

Development of International Relations (B.A., taught in Czech)

Development of Political Systems in Europe (B.A., Cz)

International Conflicts (B.A., Cz)

Languages

English – C1; German – B2; Polish – B2; Russian – B1, French – A2