Biography
Dr. Tereza Jermanová is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. Her research lies in the field of comparative politics and focuses on democratization, constitutions and constitution-making, authoritarianism, and the politics of Tunisia and Egypt. She is the author of the book Making Constitutions: Democratization and Authoritarianism in Tunisia and Egypt (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press). She is also the Principal Investigator of the Charles University–funded project (im)vision, which maps imaginaries of political transformation in the Middle East.
Her previous research, including multiple rounds of fieldwork conducted in Egypt and Tunisia, was supported by the Marguerite Ross Barnett Fund Grant, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the American Political Science Association, and the Chancellor’s Scholarship at the University of Warwick. Some of her findings have appeared in journals including Political Research Quarterly, Acta Politica, and Middle East Law & Governance. Her research has also received the PSA Autocracy and Regime Change Specialist Group Best Paper Award (2025) and the PSA Graduate Network Best Paper Award (2015).
Dr. Jermanová is also involved in the research project CoRe (Beyond Security: The Role of Conflict in Building Resilience) at Charles University and serves as a Research Fellow at the Prague-based think tank Association for International Affairs.
She earned her PhD in Comparative Politics from the University of Warwick in 2019 and holds an MA in North African Politics from the University of Exeter.
Research interests
- Constitutions and constitution-making
- Democratization and authoritarianism
- 2010-11 Arab uprisings
- Politics in Tunisia and Egypt
- Qualitative research methods