Mgr. Luděk Brož, M.Phil., Ph.D.

Luděk Brož is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences where he heads the Department of Ecological Anthropology. After his undergraduate studies in ethnology at the Charles University in Prague, he obtained MPhil (2003) and PhD (2008) degrees in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge and held a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (2008-2011).

As primary investigator of the BOAR project funded by the ERC, Luděk focuses on the role of animal diseases and veterinary expertise in contemporary societies. He specifically follows the consequences of the spread of African swine fever for Europe’s hunting cultuers, namely the growing role of biosecurity in game animal management. In his previous work Luděk built a strong expertise of Siberia where he concentrated on various topics, authoring among other works a monograph titled Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia (New York: Berghahn, 2024) and co-editing, with D. Muenster, a volume titled Suicide and Agency: Anthropological perspectives on self-destruction, personhood and power (London: Routledge, 2016).

Luděk Brož is a member of the Board of doctoral studies in Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University; editorial board member of the Czech Sociological Review journal; editorial boar member of SLON publishing house (imprint of Karolinum Press); member of the Scientific board of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. As a member of ENETwild European consortia he consults for EFSA (European Food Safety Authority).