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Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. She graduated from Wellesley College and subsequently received her MA and PhD degrees from Yale University. Her dissertation, entitled 'It's just not Main Street anymore!' Mapping Out the Boundaries of Belonging in a New Immigrant Gateway, focused on a cultural analysis of debates about undocumented migrants in the United States.
Her teaching specializes in cultural sociology, migration, and research methods. Courses she teaches include Writing Sociology, Contemporary Migration Research, Migration and Displacement, and Migration, Transnationalism and the City. In these courses, she emphasizes the development of student skills in writing, analysis of migration trends, and interdisciplinary approaches to migration and transnationalism. Students value her ability to foster critical thinking and provide constructive feedback during class.
Her major publications include the book A Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia: What Lies Beneath the Fear of the Thirteenth Migrant, which focuses on the analysis of attitudes toward migration in the Czech Republic. She has also authored or co-authored articles published in renowned journals such as the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Migration Studies, Visual Studies and Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics.
| MU Researcher: | prof. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D. |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Faculty of Social Studies |
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1/2026 — 12/2028
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| Investor: |
Czech Science Foundation
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Standard Projects
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| MU Researcher: | doc. Mgr. Anna Ševčíková, Ph.D. |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Faculty of Social Studies |
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5/2025 — 12/2028
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Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
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| MU Researcher: | doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Faculty of Social Studies |
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1/2025 — 12/2025
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| Investor: |
Masaryk University
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Specific research - support for student projects
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| MU Researcher: | Dr. Werner Binder |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Faculty of Social Studies |
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7/2024 — 6/2025
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| Investor: |
Masaryk University
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Common University Foundation
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| MU Researcher: | prof. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D. |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Faculty of Social Studies |
| Project Period: |
1/2023 — 12/2025
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| Investor: |
Czech Science Foundation
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Standard Projects
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| MU Researcher: | doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Faculty of Social Studies |
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1/2024 — 12/2024
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| Investor: |
Masaryk University
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Specific research - support for student projects
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| MU Researcher: | doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Faculty of Social Studies |
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7/2023 — 6/2024
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| Investor: |
Masaryk University
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Innovations in teaching
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| MU Researcher: | doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Faculty of Social Studies |
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1/2023 — 12/2023
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| Investor: |
Masaryk University
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Specific research - support for student projects
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| MU Researcher: | doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Faculty of Social Studies |
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1/2022 — 12/2022
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| Investor: |
Masaryk University
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Specific research - support for student projects
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| MU Researcher: | prof. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D. |
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| MU Faculty or unit: | Faculty of Social Studies |
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1/2020 — 12/2022
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Czech Science Foundation
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Standard Projects
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Total number of publications: 26
Cultural Sociology, year: 2025, DOI
Identities, year: 2024, volume: 31, edition: 2, DOI
Visual Studies, year: 2023, volume: 38, edition: 5, DOI
American Journal of Cultural Sociology, year: 2023, volume: 11, edition: 1, DOI
Migration Studies, year: 2023, volume: 11, edition: 1, DOI
Sociologický časopis, year: 2023, volume: 59, edition: 3, DOI
Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics, year: 2022, volume: 16, edition: 2, DOI
European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, year: 2021, volume: 8, edition: 3, DOI
Nations and Nationalism, year: 2021, volume: 27, edition: 2, DOI
Sociology Compass, year: 2021, volume: 15, edition: 3, DOI