Krystof Dolezal is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Central European University. His current research focuses on the intersection between political ideologies and religion in Eastern Europe. He reconstructs the Czechoslovak Christian Democratic ideological composition and strategy across regime change. Prior to his current fellowship at the Research Center for the History of Transformation in Vienna, Krystof was a fellow at the Davis Center at Harvard University, the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, and the European University Institute. He is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, Hoover Institution research support, and Visegrad Fund Fellowship.
Dissertation Topic
On the Logic of Ideological Persistence: Christian Democratic Legacy in Czechoslovakia from Postwar to Post-Socialism