Pavel Pospěch is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of the Masaryk University, Czech Republic. His work lies at the intersections of cultural sociology, rural sociology and social theory. He researches individualization, order in urban public spaces, the rural-urban divide, and the various ways people make sense of social change. He has published his work in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, European Journal of Social Theory, Sociology Compass, Journal of Rural Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies and other outlets. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sociální studia / Social Studies, editor of the book Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity (Routlege 2021) and author of a prize-winning book Unknown Society (2021, in Czech). Pavel was a CCS Visiting Fulbright Fellow in the Spring of 2017.
