Dr. Denisa Nešťáková

Research and Transfer
Research associate

denisa.nestakova@herder-institut.de
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1208-6302

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About the person:

Since 01/2024	Research Associate at Academic forum
2020-2022	Post-Doc Fellow: Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies
05/2019 – 08/2022	Research Associate of the BMBF-Project: “Family planning” in East Central Europe from the 19th century until the approval of the “pill”
2018-2020	Post-Doc Fellow: Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, Paris, France
2013-2018	PhD - History (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia) "Whoever is not with me is against me." Arab-Jewish relations during British Mandate for Palestine through the perspective of the German Temple Society.
2013-2016	MA – Jewish Civilisations (Hochschule für jüdische Studien, Heidelberg)
2010-2012	MA – Teaching History – Slovak language and literature (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia)
2007-2010	BA Teaching History – Slovak language and literature (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia)

Fields of activity:

• 19th and 20th Century Slovakia and East Central Europe 
• Gender Studies
• Holocaust Studies

Publications:

Monographs

• Be Fruitful and Multiply. Slovakia's Family Planning Under Three Regimes 1918-1965. Marburg, 2023.

Edited Volumes

• Practices of Memory and Knowledge Production. Papers from the 22nd Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Concentration Camps (Berlin : Metropol, 2022) together with Janine Fubel, Katja Grosse-Sommer, Borbála Klacsmann, Mareike Otters and Christoph Gollasch) (eds.)
• If this is a Woman. Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021) together with Katja Grosse-Sommer, Borbála Klacsmann, and Jakub Drábik (eds.)
• Moc Sexu. Sex a sexualita v moderných dejinách Slovenska (Bratislava: Paradigma Publishing, 2021) [The Power of Sex. Sex and Sexuality in modern history of Slovakia] (in Slovak)

Chapters and Articles

• “In the Name of Helping Women. Women against the Family Policy of Slovak Republic during the Second World War,” Central Europe (2024).
• “Forgotten Women. Slovak Communist Women Struggle for Reproductive Rights on Pages of Proletárka in the 1920s,” in: Ivelina Masheva, Susan Carin Zimmermann (eds.): Through the Prism of Gender and Work. Women’s Labour Struggles in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond, 19th to 20th Centuries, Leiden 2023: 167-201.
• “Family Conceptions at the Intersection of Feminism, Public Health, and Nationalism in Czechoslovakia (1918–1939).” Journal of Family History, 48, 2023 (3), pp.  309-322.
• “Privileged” Space or Site of Temporary Safety? Women and Men in the Sereď Camp, in Natalia Aleksiun and Hana Kubátova, Places, Spaces, and Voids in the Holocaust (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2021), pp. 315-321.
• Greetings from Auschwitz. Smuggled information about the destruction of Slovak Jewry, The Journal of Holocaust Research, vol. 35, no. 3 (2021), pp. 179-195.
• “Our mother organized it all”: The Role of Mothers of Sereď Camp in the Memories of Their Children, in Denisa Nešťáková, Katja Grosse-Sommer, Borbála Klacsmann, and Jakub Drábik (eds.), If this is a Woman. Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021), pp. 83-100.

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