prof. PhDr. Milada Polišenská, CSc.

Milada Polišenská is a tenured Professor of history and international relations. Her main specialization is the modern and contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe with a primary focus on diplomatic history and history of nationalism; her research and publications also focus on the history of exile, emigration, and travels and on selected issues of South, Southeast, and East Asian history, and on the history of education.  She is the author of several scholarly books and of a number of articles and conference presentations. She can report dozens of citations of her works,  one of her most cited publications is a monograph  “Czechoslovak Diplomacy and the Gulag, 1945-1953” published by Central European Press: New York, Budapest, 2015. She has worked for the Institute of International Relations in Prague and for the Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences as well as taught as Visiting Professor at universities in the United States, Taiwan, and Thailand. Prof. Polišenská has been awarded several major research grants, scholarships (Fulbright scholarship), and fellowships (Cold War International History Project Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.,  the Senior Fernand Braudel Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy).  She is a member of academic boards at several universities and a reviewer of the Czech Accreditation Office and of CEEPUS (Central European Exchange Program for University Studies). She joined AAU in 2003 and has held various administrative positions. Since 2008, she has been serving as Provost of AAU.