Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum vitae

Name and academic degrees

• Mgr. Alena Kluknavská, PhD.

Department/Faculty/University

• Department of Department of Media Studies and Journalism
  Faculty of Social Studies
  Masaryk University
  Joštova 10
  602 00 Brno Department of Public Economics
  Faculty of Economics and Administration
  Masaryk University
  Lipová 41a
  602 00 Brno

Current position

• Assistant professor

Education and academic qualifications

• 2011-2015: Ph.D. Study, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
• 2009-2011: Master of Arts (Mgr.), Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
• 2006-2009: Bachelor of Arts (Bc.), Department of Journalism, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava

Professional experience

• September 2022 - onward: Assistant professor, Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno June 2021 - August 2022: Researcher, Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno
• Sept 2016 - August 2022: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Public Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno
• Sept 2015-June 2016: Research fellow, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava (part-time)

Teaching activities

• Media, Politics, and Society
• Political Communication
• Populist radical right

Research activities

• Political communication
  Populist and post-truth communication
  Populist radical right in Central and Eastern Europe
  Media representations, minorities and migration

Research stays abroad

• 2018: Research fellow at Northwestern University (6 months) 2017: Research fellow at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna (1 month)
• 2016-2016: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna(6 months)
• 2014-2015: Research visit at Institute for Advanced Studies. Vienna, Austria (6 months)
• 2013-2014: Research visit at Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam(6 months)

Other academic activities, research projects, grants

• 2013-2023: Academic peer-reviews for Information, Communication & Society, Mass Communication and Society, Journalism, Party Politics, East European Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, Environmental Communication, VOLUNTAS, Ethnicities, Sociológia, Czech Journal of Political Science, Central European Political Review, International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Conferences and workshops

• September 2016: ECPR General Conference, Prague
• June 2016: The 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union, ECPR Standing group, Trento (panel chair, presenter)
• March 2016: Workshop “Social media and European politics”, ARENA, University of Oslo
• November 2015: Workshop “Mobilization and the Picture of the Enemy in Central and Eastern Europe”, Budapest, ELTE, Faculty of Social Sciences
• April 2015: Workshop “Contesting and Communicating Europe: European Democracy, the Media and Euro-sceptic movements”, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
• November 2014: 5th European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) conference in Lisbon
• July 2014: 5th ECPR Graduate Student Conference in Innsbruck (panel chair, presenter)

Major publications

• KLUKNAVSKÁ, Alena and Olga EISELE. Trump and circumstance: introducing the post-truth claim as an instrument for investigating truth contestation in public discourse. Information, Communication & Society. ABINGDON (ENGLAND): ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023, vol. 26, No 8, p. 1583-1600. ISSN 1369-118X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2020322. URL info
• NAVRÁTIL, Jiří and Alena KLUKNAVSKÁ. A tale of two campaigns : understanding the role of short-term political context in Czech and Slovak counter/mobilizing on migration. Social Movement Studies. Abingdon: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2023, vol. 22, No 2, p. 250-268. ISSN 1474-2837. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2022.2031958. URL info
• NEMČOK, Miroslav, Constantin Manuel BOSANCIANU, Olga LESHCHENKO and Alena KLUKNAVSKÁ. Softening the corrective effect of populism: populist parties’ impact on political interest. WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS. ABINGDON (ENGLAND): TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023, vol. 46, No 4, p. 760-787. ISSN 0140-2382. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2022.2089963. URL info
• VODA, Petr, Alena KLUKNAVSKÁ and Peter SPÁČ. From Trivialized Neo-Nazis to Parliament : Explaining the Electoral Success of the Extreme Right Party ĽSNS in Slovakia. Problems of Post-Communism. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 2022, vol. 69, No 6, p. 498-513. ISSN 1075-8216. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2020.1869909. článek na webu vydavatele info
• EISELE, Olga, Elena ESCALANTE-BLOCK, Alena KLUKNAVSKÁ and Hajo G. BOOMGAARDEN. The politicising spark? Exploring the impact of #MeToo on the gender equality discourse in Australian print media. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. ABINGDON (ENGLAND): TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2022, vol. 57, No 4, p. 309-327. ISSN 1036-1146. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2022.2045900. URL info
• HAVLÍK, Vlastimil and Alena KLUKNAVSKÁ. The Populist Vs Anti-Populist Divide in the Time of Pandemic : The 2021 Czech National Election and its Consequences for European Politics. JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies. Hoboken: Wiley, 2022, vol. 60, S1, p. 76-87. ISSN 0021-9886. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13413. article - open access info
• KLUKNAVSKÁ, Alena, Jana BERNHARD and Hajo G BOOMGAARDEN. Claiming the Crisis: Mediated Public Debates about the Refugee Crisis in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Journal of Refugee Studies. 2021, vol. 34, No 1, p. 241-263. ISSN 0951-6328. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez022. URL info
• KLUKNAVSKÁ, Alena and Manuela CAIANI. Populist radical right and immigrants in times of crisis: the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In Theodoros Fouskas. Immigrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Times of Crises: B. An International Handbook on Migration, Asylum, Social Integration and Exclusion. Athens: European Public Law Organization, 2021, p. 473-495. CXXV. ISBN 978-618-5417-10-9. URL info
• NAVRÁTIL, Jiří and Alena KLUKNAVSKÁ. Civil Society Trajectories in CEE : Post-Communist ‘Weakness’ or Differences in Difficult Times? Politologický časopis. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2020, vol. 27, No 2, p. 101-118. ISSN 1211-3247. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2020-2-101. URL info
• KLUKNAVSKÁ, Alena and Matej HRUŠKA. We Talk about the “Others” and You Listen Closely. The Extreme Right Communication on Social Media. Problems of Post-Communism. 2019, vol. 66, No 1, p. 59-70. ISSN 1075-8216. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2018.1500861. URL info
• CAIANI, Manuela and Alena KLUKNAVSKÁ. Extreme Right, the Internet and European Politics in CEE Countries: The Cases of Slovakia and the Czech Republic. In Mauro Barisione, Asimina Michailidou. Social Media and European Politics: Rethinking Power and Legitimacy in the Digital Era. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017, p. 167-192. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology, svazek 21. ISBN 978-1-137-59889-9. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59890-5_8. URL info
• GERŐ, Márton, Piotr P. PŁUCIENNICZAK, Alena KLUKNAVSKÁ, Jiří NAVRÁTIL and Kostas KANELLOPOULOS. Understanding Enemy Images in Central and Eastern European Politics. Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach. Intersections - East European Journal of Society and Politics. Budapest: CENTRE SOCIAL SCIENCES, HUNGARIAN ACAD SCIENCES, 2017, vol. 3, No 3, p. 14-40. ISSN 2416-089X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v3i3.365. URL info
• KLUKNAVSKÁ, Alena and Josef SMOLÍK. We hate them all? Issue adaptation of extreme right parties in Slovakia 1993–2016. Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Los Angeles: Elsevier, 2016, vol. 49, No 4, p. 335-344. ISSN 0967-067X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2016.09.002. URL info

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