Place of employment: Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Address: Vlašská 9, 118 40 Prague 1, Czech Republic

E-mail: sovilj@usd.cas.cz

Milan Sovilj graduated from the Philosophical Faculty in Belgrade. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in 2015 from Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts. Since 2009 he has been professionally active in the Czech Republic. His main research focus is connected with Czechoslovak-Yugoslav relations immediately before World War II, during the war and after 1945. More generally, he is interested in the history of Yugoslavia, too. He has published two monographs: In the Search for Unreachable: Yugoslav-Czechoslovak Cultural Relations 1945–1949. Belgrade 2012 [in Serbian], and his dissertation thesis: Czechoslovak-Yugoslav Relations in 1939–1941: Since the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia until the Occupation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Prague 2016 [in Czech].

Odborné curriculum

• 2007– 2010: Institute for Recent History of Serbia in Belgrade, scholar, researcher
• 2015– present: : Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. researcher, postdoctoral research fellow
• 2016– dosud: Institute of History of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové, scientific researcher, assistant professor
• 2017– 2020: Institute of World History of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague, researcher (standard project of the Czech Science Foundation) and scientific researcher (project KREAS)

Previous outcomes related to the projectektu

• Dvě téměř zapomenuté osobnosti zpravodajské a odbojové činnosti včeskoslovensko-jugoslávských kontaktech za druhé světové války: František Hieke a Aleksandar Gjurić [Two Nearly Forgotten Figures in Intelligence and Resistance Activities in Czechoslovak-Yugoslav Relations during World War II: František Hieke and Aleksandar Gjurić]. In: Václav Štěpánek – Jiří Mitáček (edd.): Studia Balkanica Bohemo-Slovaca VII. Brno 2017, pp. 455–471 [in Czech].