Dartmore Staff & Faculty
A permanent academic director, academic advisor, and administrative director comprise the Institute's core
administrative faculty. In addition to providing individual academic and cultural advising, the staff helps
facilitate students' immersion and integration into the Prague community through cross-cultural exchanges
with Czech and other foreign students studying in Prague. The staff also provides extensive information
about cultural and social events in Prague and throughout the Czech Republic and Central Europe.
The faculty constitutes an interesting team of local and foreign professors whose experiences reflect the incredible changes
that have occurred in the region since 1989 and that continue at a rapid and fluid pace. Special attention has been given to
creating courses of study that balance the contributions of local regional professors who work and do research for the most
respected regional universities and foreign scholars who have spent a number of years in Central Europe and have developed
a distinctive expatriate perspective of the region.
Our students work closely and in consort with this eclectic group of professors. We are confident that our faculty will
engage and challenge each student to excel in their studies and to become better citizens of the world.
The learning experience is supported by interactive lessons in small groups that focus on developing and strengthening
distinctive critical thinking skills that are so important in fostering a uniquely global and modern perspective.
The Institute's academic advisor, faculty team, and the students themselves continually evaluate and reevaluate the students'
academic needs. This is an integral component of the Institute's philosophy of interactive learning and academic development.
Academic Advisory Board
The Adivsory Board is an internation board of recognized
academics.
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Dr. Martin Jay, Department of History,
University of California, Berkeley. Areas of Expertise:
European Intellectual history; Visual Culture, Critical
Theory.
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Dr. Arpad Kadarkay, Department
of Politics and Government, University of Puget Sound
Tacoma Washington. Areas of Expertise: Political Theory
Hungarian History and Politics America Political Thought.
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Dr. Zdzislaw Mach, Center for European
Studies, Jageillonian University Krakow, Poland. Areas
of Expertise: Nationalism, Minorities and Ethnicity.
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Professors and Guest Lecturers
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Jakub Basista, Ph.D.
Since1985, Professor Basista has presented lectures, tutorials and seminars on early modern (16th-18th centuries) and modern (19th century) world and Polish history at the Institute of History (Jagiellonian University, Kraków). In addition to his work with Dartmore, he has been a guest lecturer at the America Institute (Vienna), Institute of European Studies (Vienna), Vienna University, Yale, Drexel University and Millikin University. He currently teaches courses on the Political and Social History of 20th Century Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Modern European State Formation. In addition to Polish history, Professor Basista also specializes in 17th Century British history.
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Jana Finch Carvanová
Jana Carvanová has degrees in Czech (2003) and Italian (2005) Philologies from Charles University, as well as a diploma in Pedagogy and Psychology for Teachers (2001). In addition to teaching Czech language for Dartmore, Ms. Carvanova has worked as Director of Czech Studies at the Language Centre David Holis in Prague (2002-2004), as well as a lecturer of Czech at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague (2002-2006), and at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Eotvos Lorand (Budapest, Hungary 2007).
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Magdalena Góra, Ph.D.
An Assistant Professor at the Centre for European Studies and the Centre for Far and Middle East Studies (Jagiellonian University, Kraków), her research focuses on processes of collective identity formation, contemporary Polish foreign policy, Polish-Jewish and Polish-Israeli relations, relations between European Union and the Middle East, and relations between the Anglo-American Jewish Diaspora and Poland. In 2006 she was a visiting research fellow in the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, United States and at Haifa University, Israel. In 2007 she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Humanities (Pazmany Peter University, Budapest). She is also a researcher dealing with the problems of identity formation and enlargement within the RECON (Reconstituting Democracy in Europe) Integrated Project supported by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme.
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Tim Hetherington
For over a decade, he has lectured in Photography and Digital Media at Suffolk New College, formerly holding lecturer positions at Charles University and FAMU in Prague. Prior to these ventures, he studied Art & Design at Cleveland College and Photography at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design. With over fifteen years experience as a freelance photographer, he has produced work for a broad spectrum of clients ranging from the BBC and Random House UK, to Manchester United and the British Council. Tim Hetherington’s works are exhibited widely in the UK and beyond. He is also the recipient of numerous awards including a Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (2000-4), a Hasselblad Foundation grant (2002), World Press Photo of the Year 2007, the Rory Peck Award for Features (2008), and a duPont award (2009).
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Dobrochna Kałwa, Ph.D.
An Assistant Professor in the Institute of History (Jagiellonian University, Kraków), her main fields of research interest include the history of feminism in Poland, oral history, the memory of communism and the history of everyday life in modern Poland. Her main publications include
An Active Woman in Poland between the Wars, Dilemma of the women's movement (2001), History of Usual Women and Usual Men, Social History from the Gender Perspective (2007), and
Customs in Poland: from the Middle Ages to the Present (as co-author, 2005).
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Lubomir Konečný, Ph.D.
Professor Konečný received his Ph.D. in Art History at Charles University in Prague. From 1970-90 and again since 1999, he has been a research scholar at the Institute of Art History (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), and since June 2001 he has been its Director. Since 1990, he has been an Associate Professor in the Institute for Art History, Charles University; and in 1993-95, a professor of art history at Central European University, Prague. Professor Konečný sits on a number of editorial boards including
Estetika, the Czech journal
Umění, the American
Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, and the Polish-Austrian Artibus et Historiae: An Art Anthology. His numerous publications on Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, iconography, and the history and theory of art history have appeared throughout the world.
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Zdzislaw Mach, Ph.D.
Director of the Centre for European Studies (Jagiellonian University, Kraków), he teaches courses on the construction of cultural identities in Europe. Professor Mach’s research primarily concerns identity issues such as nationalism, minorities and ethnicity, the development of European citizenship, migration and the reconstruction of identity, as well as the ethnic origin of nation and construction of identities. Professor Mach lectures extensively across Poland and abroad.
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Grzegorz Pożarlik, Ph.D.
Professor Pożarlik teaches in the Faculty of International and Political Studies (Jagiellonian University, Kraków), and is program coordinator for MA studies in the Centre for European Studies. In 1999, he received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the Faculty of Philosophy at Jagiellonian. His research focuses on European integration, civil society development, as well as constitutional issues in Europe and Poland.
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Tomáš Sedlaček, Ph.D.
Currently a Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at ČSOB (the largest of the Czech banks), he was a Yale University World Fellow and PhD student at Charles University, where he now lectures on Ethics in Economics, History of Economic Thought, Philosophy and Economics, and Current Affairs in Economy and Rhetoric. He worked as an economic advisor to President Václav Havel (2001-2003) and as an expert advisor to the Minister of Finance (2004-2006). Yale Economic Review (2006) has ranked him among five hot shots in economics. He also lectures at the University of New York in Prague and at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. He led an analytical team in the non-governmental organization, YES for Europe, during the pre-referendum campaign and wrote many impact studies of EU enlargement and lectured on the subject of EU accession. In cooperation with Georgetown University and Harvard University, he wrote and co-authored a number of case studies on management, ethics and decision-making in transformation. He is a member of Program committee of Forum 2000 Foundation and an elected member of Board of Directors Czech Economic Society. He publishes in scientific as well as daily journals.
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Radomíra Sedláková, Arch.D.
Professor Sedláková studied Architecture at the Technical University in Prague, Aesthetics at Charles University, and Architectural Theory at the Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture in Moscow. Since 1985, she has been Curator of the Architecture Collection at the National Gallery in Prague. She has lectured on the history and theory of architecture at various universities across the Czech Republic and Slovakia, prepared many exhibitions about 20th century Czech architecture for the National Gallery in Prague, and was named curator three times for the Czech participation in the International Exhibition of Architecture in Venice. Professor Sedláková has many published editions concerning Czech architecture, as well as other architectural topics. From 1993, she has been the chairwoman of the jury for the Building of the Year competition (Stavba roku).
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Jan Sokol, Ph.D.
Professor Sokol, a Charter 77 signatory and former member of parliament (1990-1992), has held positions ranging from Minister of Education (1998) to coalition candidate for the Presidency of the Czech Republic (2003). Long associated with Charles University, from 2000 to 2007 he was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at CU. His main areas of interest include phenomenology and continental philosophy, philosophic anthropology, religious science and anthropology of law. Professor Sokol has published over 300 articles and has lectured all over the world. He also holds positions as Chairman of the Education Committee for the Czech UNESCO, Adviser to the Minister of Education, Vice-Chairman of the Czech Grant Agency, member of the Scientific Councils at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Pedagogy and at the Center for Theoretical Studies, CU Prague; the Faculty of Humanities, Pardubice; and Masaryk University, Brno.
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Andrzej Szczerski, Ph.D.
Professor Szczerski is a lecturer in the Institute of Art History (Jagiellonian University, Kraków), and a guest lecturer at Goethe University (Frankfurt/Main, 2003) and St Andrews University (2004). Member of the editorial board for several art periodicals, Professor Szczerski has also authored numerous publications on Polish and Central European art, architecture and design from 1900s until present day. He is a member of the Society of Art Historians in Poland, Historians of German and Central European Art & Architecture and the International Association of Art Critics, AICA. He has been recipient of many awards including the Szczęsny Dettloff Prize (2003) and Felczak and Wereszycki Prize (2004). Since 2005, he has been a member of the advisory board for the Małopolska Foundation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków. He is co-founder and director of postgraduate Curatorial Studies at the Institute of Art History (Jagiellonian University, Kraków).
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Pavel Zeman, Ph.D.
In 2002, he completed his doctorate at the Institute of International Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University). Since 1993 he has worked for the Czech National Film Archives as a researcher in the Department of Film Theory and History. He has edited professional periodicals on the theory, history and aesthetics of film, and has contributed to the preparation of the first two volumes of a six-volume scientific catalogue of Czech feature films 1898-1991 (“Czech Feature Films I 1898-1918”, Prague, NFA, 1995; “Czech Feature Films II 1930-1945”,Prague, NFA, 1998). He has lectured at Charles University and Marburg University.
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Board Members
Mr. Jiri Rohan Music Academy of Arts 1993,
Current member of Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Director Czech
Japan Society
Mr. Petr Stepanek Charles University, Prague
PhD 2003 Department of History, Ottoman Studies, Early Modern
Europe.
Mrs. Marcela Zebrakovska Dual Degree from
Charles University Prague and Masaryk University, Brno - Czech
and English Studies. University Teacher Department of Postgraduate
Studies, cross cultural lectures and Czech to foreigners
Cooperating Institutions
The Dartmore Institute for Central European
Studies cooperates with the following institutions of higher
learning:
- Jagiellonian University, Krakow,
Poland
- Czech National Museum of Modern Art
Administrative Staff
Mr. David Sparandara, Executive Director & Academic Program Director,
has lived and worked in Prague since 1991.
He has had academic appointments at New York University, the University
of Massachusetts, Charles University, and the Central European University.
He currently serves as a visiting professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In addition to his teaching duties at these institutions,
Mr. Sparandara holds administrative posts pertaining to the recruitment,
evaluation and selection of students for American and European Doctorial
Programs. His varied background includes teaching high school, undergraduate
and graduate students. He completed his undergraduate degree at
Adelphi University, his Masters at the University of California,
and he did PhD work both at the University of California and at
Charles University. Mr. Sparandara was influential in the creation
of University of Washington's Prague Program.
Mrs. Simona Sparandara, Director of Student Affairs, is Czech and a native of Prague.
Her formal education is in the field of Inorganic Chemistry. She
graduated from the Technical University of Chemical Technology and
then secured a position there on the faculty as a Research Chemist,
working in this capacity until 1994. From that point she has split
her time among a number of activities: working part time in the
chemical field on special projects, teaching Mathematics and Chemistry
and working for various academic programs directing student affairs.
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