Jaroslava Gajdošova, Ph.D.
E-mail: Jaroslava.Gajdosova@aauni.edu
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Courses taught: Intro to Sociology, Social Science Research Methods
EDUCATION
Ph.D. program at the Department of Sociology at the New School for Social Research, New York, ABD Fall 2005, degree expected 2007; research interests in cultural and political sociology, social thoughts, comparative historical sociology. Dissertation title: “Günter Grass and the Politics of Style in the German Literary Field,” 2003–2009
M.A. program at the Department of Sociology at the New School for Social Research, New York, 1999–2002
Graduate degree work in Social History at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1991–1992
M.A., Charles University (Philosophical Faculty), Prague, History; research interest in modern history and historical thoughts; MA theses: “Reconstruction Period 1865–1879 in American Historiography,” 1985–1991
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, Anglo American University, 2009
Lecturer, Parsons School of Design, Department of Critical Studies.
Courses: Introduction to Sociological Theories. Responsibilities: Developing syllabi, planning lessons, advising students, correcting essays, grading. 2005
Lecturer, Ramapo College New Jersey, Department of Social Sciences, 2005, 2004. Course: Social Class and Stratification. Responsibilities: Developing syllabi, planning lessons, correcting essays, grading, 2004–2005
Teaching Assistant to Professor Jeffrey Goldfarb, Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research, New York.
Courses: Artistic Practices and Social Theory. Responsibilities: consulting and organizing presentations of the graduate students, co-teaching one session each semester, 2003–2004
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Spring 2006
Universität Greifswald, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft und Literaturtheorie, dissertation research
Fall 2004
Research Fellow at TCDS (Transregional Center for Democratic Studies) Programme on the Culture, Democracy, and Identity, New School for Social Research.
2003
TCDS summer workshop on Democracy and Diversity, Cracow
2002
Institut Für Demographie an der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, comparative research on multicultural settings at the High Schools in Prague and Berlin
Responsibilities: Designing and assessing questionnaires, conducting interviews, participant and non-participant observations, collecting and assessing narratives
1999–2001
Program Researcher and Assistant, German Marshall Fund Project on the “New Immigrants in New York City” at the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship (ICMEC), New School for Social Research.
Responsibilities: Co-designing questionnaires, conducting interviews, assessing narratives, literature search.
Spring 2001
External Researcher, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York, project on “Information Technologies and the Development of Civil Society in Central Europe”, spring 2001.
Responsibilities: Co-designing questionnaires, collecting, analyzing and assessing on-line data and surveys, preparing written reports.
Spring 2000
Research Assistant, Department of Historical Studies, New School for Social Research, Professor Eli Zaretsky, Spring 2000.
Responsibilities: Literature research on the perception of Freud’s writings in the USA in the 1930s.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Paper presented “Literary Style and Literary Doxa from Perspectives of Bourdieu and Husserl”, at TCDS Conference at the New School for Social Research, New York, 2004
Paper presented “Literary Mnemonics of Günter Grass and the German Collective Memory” at “Art of Comparison Conference”, Annual European Sociological Association Meeting, Rotterdam, 2004
Paper presented “Günter Grass and the German Collective Memory” at “History Matters” Conference” at the New School For Social Research, New York, 2004
Paper presented "Postmodernism in Czech culture" at “Image of the 20th Century Conference” at the University of Southern Colorado, 2000
PUBLICATIONS
New German Review, University of California, Vol. 20 (2006): 120–135, “Beyond the German Narrative of Guilt: Two Perspectives”
Re/Fusing Structures: The Sociological Journal, New School for Social Research, 2005, “Literary Style and Literary Doxa from Perspectives of Bourdieu and Husserl”
TCDS Bulletin, Spring 2005, “Collective Identities and European Integration”
Sociological Bulletin, University of Southern Colorado (2000): 151–153, "Postmodernism in Czech Culture”
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