Denisa Nestakova

Denisa Nešťáková, Dr. is a historian focusing on history of East Central Europe, Holocaust studies and Gender studies. 

She is an external research associate at the Comenius University with her post-doctoral project Women and Men in the Labour Camp Sereď, Slovakia which is carried thank to the Post-doctoral grant of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, Paris, France. Since May 2019 she has also worked as a research associateat the Herder Institute for the project “‘Family Planning’ in East Central Europe from the 19th Century until the Authorization of ‘the Pill’”, focusing on Czechoslovakia. She studied History and Slovak language and literature at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), and Jewish civilizations at the Hochschule für jüdische Studien in Heidelberg (Germany). In June 2018, she defended her dissertation thesis titled “Whoever is not with me is against me.” Arab-Jewish relations during British Mandate for Palestine through the perspective of the German Temple Society at the Comenius University in Bratislava.