Historian, Research Assistant ERC StG Project “Recycling the German Ghosts. Resettlement Cultures in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia after 1945”
e-mail: michal.korhel@ispan.edu.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8319-4557
Academia.edu: https://pan-pl.academia.edu/MichalKorhel
Research interests
- History of Childhood,
- Children Born of War,
- German minority in East-Central Europe,
- Memory Studies
Awards and honors
- 2016: Student Prize of the Rector of the University of J. E. Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem
Scholarships
- 2019: DAAD-Stibet Scholarship at Augsburg University
- 2010 – 2015: Friedrich Naumann Foundation Scholarship
- 2013 – 2014: Scholarship of the Lomonosov Moscow State University
Research projects
- 2022–2027: “Recycling the German Ghosts. Resettlement Cultures in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia after 1945 (SPECTRAL RECYCLING)” – Starting Grant, European Research Council.
Publications
Articles in journals
- Korhel, M. (2024). Povojnová migrácia na Slovensku: perspektíva osídlencov a ich detí v Handlovej. Historický časopis, 72(4), 741–770.
- Korhel, M. (2024). Natural Catastrophe as a Consequence of Forced Displacement: Reviewing the Handlová Landslide From a Cultural-Historical Perspective. Environment & History, 30(3), 356–370.
- Korhel, M. (2022). Children of the Enemy or the Future of Socialism? Being a Child of an American Soldier in Socialist Czechoslovakia. Historická sociologie. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Korhel, M. (2020). Děti nepřítele? Příspěvky k ústecké vlastivědě Ústí nad Labem: Muzeum města Ústí nad Labem, 21, 70–71. [Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Ústí nad Labem, 1. 10. 2019 – 26. 1. 2020].
- Korhel, M. (2018). Česky cítiť, ľudovodemokraticky myslieť! Štátna politika voči česko-nemeckým deťom a ich rodinám v prvých rokoch socialistickej diktatúry. Historie – Otázky – Problémy, 10(2), 11–25. https://doi.org/20.500.11956/105469
Chapters in books
- Korhel, M. (2021). Children as ‘Collateral Damage’ of Nationalisation Campaigns? The Persecution of ‘Nationally Unreliable’ Persons in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. In H. Glaesmer, S. Lee, & B. Stelzl-Marx (Eds.), Children Born of War – Past, Present, Future (pp. 212–231). Routledge.
Reviews
- Korhel, M. (2022). [Review of the book Die Kinder von Teheran. Eine lange Flucht vor dem Holocaust, by M. Dekel]. Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Korhel, M. (2019). [Review of the book Mezi pionýrským šátkem a mopedem. Děti, mládež a socialismus v českých zemích 1948–1970, by J. Knapík & M. Franc]. Bohemia, 59(2), 385–387. https://doi.org/10.18447/BoZ-2019-8422
- Korhel, M. & A. Kolářová (2019). [Review of the conference Children Born of War Innovative Training Network – Final Conference and Network Open Event, 27.06.2018 – 28.06.2018 Leipzig]. H-Soz-Kult. www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8068