Katarina OČKOVÁ

Visiting Scholar
University of Bratislava

 

 

 

 

 


Katarina Očková is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology at Comenius University in Bratislava. She holds a B.Sc. (2010) in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Bratislava, an M.Sc. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (2011), and a Ph.D. (2020) in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh. In her doctoral thesis she explored the intertwining of kinship, religion, memory, and the politics of Jewishness in post-Socialist Slovakia. Her research interests include kinship and relatedness, marriage and marital preferences and practices, religion and ritual, memory and politics, intergenerational relations and transmission of memory and trauma, notions of belonging, Jewishness and Jewish/non-Jewish relations, (mis)trust, antisemitism, processes of othering, uncertainty and insecurity, and the anthropology of Europe. She has conducted ethnographic research among Jewish communities in England, Slovakia, and the Netherlands. While at the Department in summer semester 2025, she co-ordinated a course on "Anthroplogy of Religion."