Executive Board

 

President

Vice-President & Research Officer

Treasurer & Secretary

Communication Officer

Meeting Chair


Daniel Semper serves as Treasurer & Secretary for the Wirth Alumni Network. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Management at WU Wien University of Economics and Business, Austria. He obtained his PhD from Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, an MA in Sociology from the University of Graz, Austria, and an MA in Management and Organizational Analysis from the Warwick Business School, UK. Daniel is also affiliated with the Center for Civil Society Studies at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, and held visiting positions at University of Alberta, Canada, UTS Sydney, Australia, University of Bergamo, Italy, and at the Higher School of Economics Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. His research interests concern topics of institutional processes within and across organizational fields.

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Petra Sapun Kurtin serves as Meeting Chair and is a research and teaching assistant at the University of Rijeka (English Department and Master’s in translation). She is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Zagreb, and holds a dual-degree in English and German Language and Literature from the University of Rijeka, Croatia. She spent a research year in US graduate programs on a Fulbright scholarship at New York University in New York and Tulane University in New Orleans and was Wirth Doctoral Fellow in 2018/2019. She served as Co-Meeting Chair for the Wirth Alumni Network and is also the current president of the Croatian-Canadian Academic Association in Zagreb.

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Eva Jarošová serves as President for the Wirth Alumni Network. She is a PhD candidate in Czech history at Charles University in Prague and spent her doctoral fellowship in Edmonton in 2018-2019. Her research focuses on the funeral culture of the early modern period, on which she recently co-edited a volume for the academic journal HOP (History-Questions-Problems, 1/2019). She also teaches national history to exchange students and is inspired by her stays at the University of Alberta and the University of Helsinki.

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Jana Marešová serves as Communication Officer for the Wirth Alumni Network. She holds a PhD in Anglophone literatures from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague and spent her doctoral fellowship in Edmonton in 2014-2015. Her research focuses on contemporary Canadian Indigenous fiction, Indigenous storytelling, and the principle of relationality. She teaches at the Department of English at Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem.

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Emese Ilyefalvi serves as Vice-President & Research Officer and is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Folkloristics (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary) and a research fellow at MTA–ELTE Lendület Historical Folkloristics Research Group. Her research focuses on the theoretical, methodological and technical questions of computational & digital folkloristics and vernacular, folk religiosity. She is also co-chair of ​the ​SIEF (International Society of Folklore and Ethnology) Working Group on Archives and editorial board member of Historical Studies on Central Europe (http://ojs.elte.hu/hsce).

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