About the CST

Jan Váňa

Jan Váňa's recent academic awards include Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology and a Junior Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He was nominated for the SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence for his article on theorizing the social through literary fiction. His long-term interest is in transgressing the boundaries between social sciences and literature, which he also pursues by publishing socially engaged/sociological fiction. In 2022, he received a Czech Literary Book Club award for his sociological novel Křehkost (Fragility) about the oppression of gender norms. The research topics include the sociology of literature, cultural sociology, sociological theory, and sociological fiction.