Věra Sokolová

Věra Sokolová is Vice-Chair of the Equality & Diversity Working Group at Coimbra Group; Chair of the Board for Equal Opportunities at Charles University; and Associate Professor of History and Head of the Graduate Program in Gender Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. She is a member of the Gender 4EU+ platform of the 4EU+ European University Alliance; a former member of the Committee for Sexual Minorities of the Government Council of the Czech Republic; and a member of several editorial and research boards of academic institutions in the Czech Republic. She specializes in comparative history of gender and sexuality; collective memory and public space; and reproductive justice. She is the author of four books and numerous chapters and research articles, mostly in English.