Tony Ozuna, M.A.
E-mail: tony.ozuna@faculty.aauni.edu
Tel.: +420 257 530 202
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EDUCATION
Master of Arts, Political Science, 1988 (University of California, Santa Barbara)
– “The Federal Communication Commission's regulations of Obscenity and Indecency on radio broadcasts—a case study of KCSB-FM.”
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, 1985 (University of California, Irvine)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Administrator and lecturer at the Anglo-American University, Prague
– Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences currently as Academic Dean, previously as Chair (1998–present)
– Head of the Journalism & Communications Program (2004–present)
– Composition/Academic Writing lecturer (1995–present)
– Other duties include interviewing and hiring faculty, student advising, senior thesis advising, and ongoing development of the School's curriculum.
Contributing Editor for the Public Service Column, The Prague Post (2004–2008)
Member of Editorial Advisory Board for Umelec International Magazine (2004)
Lecturer (part-time) at CERGE-EI, The Center for Economic Research & Graduate Education, of Charles University, Prague.
Taught Academic Writing to first-year graduate (PhD.) students from Eastern Europe and Eurasia. (2002)
Editor of social science grant proposals and academic text for publication (in English) for Petr Mateju, former member of Parliament of the Czech Republic and Head of the research team on Social Stratification at the Institute of Sociology (2001–2003)
Co-founder and Editor in Chief of Yazzyk, a Prague-based, English-language literary and art magazine which focused on translations of Czech fiction and poetry (1992–1995)
Editor and researcher at Resources, a publisher of financial and marketing information in the Czech Republic (1995)
Editor, Legal Department, Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Los Angeles (1994) Post-Graduate Researcher, California Policy Research, University of California (1987–1989)
Research Assistant, Mass Media and Hispanic Politics in the USA, Communications Studies Dept., University of California, Santa Barbara (1987–1989)
PUBLICATIONS
“El Czechano”
The Return of Král Majáles. Prague’s International Literary Renaissance 1990–2010. An Anthology. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2010. 621–645. Print.
“21st Century Czech Decadence”
Umělec Live, March 2–June 9, 2010
“1989. End of History or Beginning of the Future?”
Umělec Live, October 9, 2009–February 7, 2010
“A provocative homecoming—Czech émigré Pavel Büchler returns to the land of Kafka”
The Prague Post, July 7, 2010
“Seeing red but playing it safe—Uneven quality in a strikingly timid show of Russian videos”
The Prague Post, June 30, 2010
“The pleasure they take—Longtime partners keep Steve Swallow in a healthy groove”
The Prague Post, June 30, 2010
“A jazz legend comes to town—Doug Hammond brings echoes of the '60s Detroit scene”
The Prague Post, June 23, 2010
“Survivors in a cruel world—From painter Josef Bolf, a grim picture of life in the paneláks”
The Prague Post, June 23, 2010
“Back in the groove—Massive Attack blends the old magic with contemporary beats”
The Prague Post, June 16, 2010
“The new face of the bass—Jaromír Honzák reunites his award-winning international quintet”
The Prague Post, June 9, 2010
“Visions of future jazz—From Norway, bold excursions in progressive improvisation”
The Prague Post, June 9, 2010
“Cooking up a jazz stew—From the streets of New York, a hot Pan-American sound”
The Prague Post, June 2, 2010
“Anthology tracks prose and poetry of past 20 years—New literary collection is a mix of Czech and expat writing”
The Prague Post, April 28, 2010
See also: Selected publications 2010–2006
EXHIBITIONS
The Freak Show II
A.M. 180, PRAGUE, 13.8.–27.9.2010
The Freak Show
GALERIE CALIFIA, HORAŽĎOVICE, 21.8.–31.10.2009
A2 – KULTURNÍ CTRNÁCTIDENÍK, 19.08.2009
www.Advojka.cz
Respect.cz, 16.8.2009
http://respekt.ihned.cz/c1-38054820-kulturni-prehled
LANGUAGES
Intermediate Czech, basic Spanish
OTHER INTERESTS
Jazz disc jockey, fiction, writing and traveling
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