B. Nadya Jaworsky is a professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology, and she directs the Center for the Cultural Sociology of Migration at Masaryk. She teaches two migration-related courses, along with Introduction to Cultural Sociology and Sociological Writing, and she has supervised many PhD and master’s theses. Her current research project, People Like Us? A Reverse Sociology of Migration in Czechia, examines how people who have come to Czechia from abroad engage in symbolic boundary work when imagining what “people like us” means to them. Her prior project (The thirteenth immigrant? An in-depth exploration of the public perception of migration in the Czech Republic) explored symbolic boundary work among the Czech public with regard to their attitudes towards migration. Prof. Jaworsky has published extensively in books, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed journals on the topics of migration and cultural sociology, including a theoretical piece on symbolic boundary work, the issue of migration in the 2018 Czech presidential election, media coverage of migrant and refugee issues, and the iconic representation of refugees. Her most recent book written with her research team is A Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia: What Lies Beneath the Fear of the Thirteenth Migrant.
