The Jacques Derrida Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities is awarded by the Embassy of France in the Czech Republic and Michal Martinko. The goal of this competition is to award the best PhD research work in all fields of social sciences and humanities. Tereza Menšíková was awarded the second position in this prize for her innovative doctoral research on social and economic exclusion, marginality, activism, and digital media in the context of Dalit communities in India. Methodologically, Tereza Menšíková uniquely combines ethnography with computational text analysis and social network analysis to model dynamics of collective action. Sincere congratulations!
Aleš Chalupa, Tomáš Glomb, and Juraj Sarkisjan published the article: Stations of the Publicum Portorium Illyrici are a Strong Predictor of the Mithraic Presence in the Danubian Provinces: Geographical Analysis of the Distribution of the Roman Cult of Mithras in Open Archaeology.
In this short text, Tereza looks back at the experience of attending summer schools focusing on quantitative methods and evaluates how beneficial it was for her research and self-development in the Study of religions.
