Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
Kateřina Čapková is a senior researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague, and a teacher at both Charles University and NYU in Prague. Her research focuses on modern Jewish history in Europe, the history of refugees and migration, and, recently, the history of the Roma and Sinti. Her Czechs, Germans, Jews? National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia (Berghahn, 2012; in Czech 2005 and 2014) was called the Outstanding Academic Title of 2012 by Choice magazine. Together with Hillel Kieval she is co-editor of the multi-author volume Prague and Beyond: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, which looks at the history of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia from the early modern period to recent times (Penn Press, 2021; in German 2020; in Czech 2022; in Hebrew 2024). With Eliyana Adler she co-edited the volume Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath (Rutgers UP, 2020). In 2016 she initiated the establishment of the Prague Forum for Romani Histories at the Institute of Contemporary History, an academic platform for sharing and encouraging research on history of Roma and Sinti.