Doc. PhDr. Tomáš Nigrin, Ph.D.
Tomáš Nigrin studied German and Austrian studies at the Institute of International Studies, Charles University. In 2010 he completed his Ph.D. study of modern history. Since 2014 he has been a chairman of the Academic Senate of Charles University in Prague. Currently, he is an assistant professor and a research fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. He is the Science Secretary at the Department for German Studies. In 2003/2004 he studied political sciences and history at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2005/2006 he attended one year fellowship at „Studienkolleg zu Berlin“ at Academy of Science in Berlin supported by The German National Academical Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and the Hertie-Foundation (Hertie-Stiftung) and also studied modern history at Humboldt University in Berlin. His main area of interest is Germany and its relations to the Central European region, especially in the transportation field.
Publications
- Nigrin, Tomáš – Tomeš, Zdeněk – Seidenglanz, Daniel – Mlsna, Petr – Dujka, Jiří: Železniční reforma v Německu. [Railway Reform in Germany.] Praha: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2017.
- Nigrin, Tomáš. Od nepostradatelnosti ke stagnaci? Železniční odvětví v Československu v 70. a 80. letech 20. století. [From Indispensability to Stagnation? The Railway Industry in Czechoslovakia in the 70s and 80s of the 20th Century.] 2017, rukopis habilitační práce [habilitation thesis manuscript], 262 p.
- Nigrin, Tomáš. Kontakty transportowo-polityczne między Kolejami Czechosłowackimi a Polskimi Kolejami Państwowymi w latach siedemdziesiątych i osiemdziesiątych XX w.: bratnia współpraca czy ochrona własnych interesów? [Transport-Political Contacts between Czechoslovak Railways and Polish State Railways in the 70s and 80s of the 20th Century: Fraternal Cooperation or Protection of Their Own Interests?] In: Kapias, Michał a Keller David (eds.). Państwo wobec kolei żelaznych [State to the Railways], 2017, p. 365-380.
- Seidenglanz, Daniel – Martin Kvizda – Tomáš Nigrin – Zdeněk Tomeš a Jiří Dujka. Czechoslovak light rail - Legacy of socialist urbanism or opportunity for the future? In: Journal of Transport Geography, Oxford: Elsevier, 2016.
- Nigrin, Tomáš. Německo bez jádra? : SRN na cestě k odklonu od jaderné energie. [Germany without nuclear energy? FRG on it´s way to decline from the nuclear energy.] Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015.
- Seidenglanz, Daniel – Nigrin, Tomáš – Dujka, Jiří. Regional Railway Transport in Czech, Austrian and German Decentralised and Regionalised Transport Markets. In: Národohospodářský obzor. Review of Economic Perspectives, 2015 (4), pp. 431–450.
- Nigrin, Tomáš: Open Competition or Discrimination on Tracks? Examples of Anti-competitive Behaviour of the Deutsche Bahn. In: Národohospodářský obzor. Review of Economic Perspectives, 2014 (1/14), p. 16–32.
- Tomeš, Zdeněk – Kvizda, Martin – Nigrin, Tomáš – Seidenglanz, Daniel. Competition in the passenger railway transport in the Czech Republic. In: Research in Transportation Economics, 2014, 48 (December), pp. 270–276.
- Nigrin, Tomáš: Izolovaný ostrov. Západní Berlín a jeho proměny po stavbě Berlínské zdi. [The Isolated Island: West Berlin and it ́s changes after the Building of the Berlin Wall.] Praha: Dokořán, 2013, 215 p.
- Nigrin, Tomáš. Německý historický ústav ve Washingtonu. [The German Historical Institute in Washington.] In: Věda a politika: německé společenskovědní ústavy v zahraničí (1880-2010). [The Science and the Politics: German historical Institutes in the world (1880–2010).] Praha: Karolinum, 2013, pp. 167–182.
- Nigrin, Tomáš: Cold War Crisis on the Railway. Construction of the Berlin Wall. In: Eastern European Railways in Transition: Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013, p. 233–239.
- Nigrin, Tomáš – Kvizda, Martin et al.: Politika hospodářské soutěže aplikovaná v odvětví železniční dopravy. Modely a metody regulace konkurenčního prostředí na trhu železničních dopravních služeb. [Methodology for defining the relevant Market in the Rail Industry.] Brno: Nakladatelství Masarykovy univerzity, 2013, pp. 181–201.
- Tomeš, Zdeněk – Nigrin, Tomáš – Mlsna, Petr – Kvizda, Martin et al.: Metodika optimalizace institucionálního prostředí v železniční dopravě v České republice. [The Competition Policy Applied on the Railway Market.] 2013.
- Nigrin, Tomáš et al.: "Antifaschistische Grenzmaßnahmen". Mauerbau in den tschechoslowakischen und polnischen Lehrbüchern vor 1989. [“The Border Measures against the Fascists". The Erection of the Berlin Wall in the Czechoslovak and Polish History School Books.] In: Der Mauerbau 1961 – Bildungsgeschichtliche Einsichten. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, 2012, p. 115–128.
- Beneš, Zdeněk – Nigrin, Tomáš et al.: Sozialismus in tschechischen, slowakischen, polnischen und deutschen Geschichtsschulbüchern. [The reflexion of the socialist Era in the Czech, Slovak, Polish and German History School Books.] In: Loyalitäten im Staatssozialismus. DDR, Tschechoslowakei, Polen. Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2010, pp. 343–363.
- Nigrin, Tomáš: Nové poznatky k druhé berlínské krizi. [New Findings to the Second Berlin Crisis.] In: Český časopis historický. The Czech Historical Review, 2010, 108(4), pp. 696–702.
- Nigrin, Tomáš: Stavba berlínské zdi. Hybatel modernizace společnosti v Západním Berlíně? [The Construction of Berlin Wall. Impulse for modernization of the society in West Berlin?] In: Czech Historical Review, 1/2009.
- Nigrin, Tomáš: Západní Berlín – centrum či periferie Spolkové republiky Německo v padesátých a šedesátých letech 20. století. [West Berlin – centre or periphery of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland in the 50. and 60.] In: Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Studia Territorialia, 2009.
- Pešek, Jiří – Nigrin, Tomáš: Inseln der bürgerlichen Autonomie? Traditionelle Selbstverwaltungsmilieus in den Umbruchsjahren 1944/45 und 1989/90. Lang-Verlag 2009.
- Nigrin, Tomáš: The Construction of the Berlin Wall and Its Impact on West Berlin’s Society. In: Conference Collection, University of Texas Austin, 2009.
- Nigrin, Tomáš: Zásobování düsseldorfského obyvatelstva a britská zónová zásobovací politika 1944–1948 [Food Supply of the Düsseldorf Population and British supply Policy in the British Zone 1944–1948]. In: Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Studia Territorialia, 9/2007, pp. 267-353.
Grants
- 2016–2018 The Role of Czechoslovak Railways in Czechoslovak Transportation Policy, 1970–1989. The Czech Science Foundation. Main Researcher.
- 2015–2018 Transport Integration for Prosperity. The Importance of Rail Connections for the V4 Internal Cohesion. Visegrad Strategic Project. Main Researcher.
- 2016–2017 The importance of regional high-speed rail terminals for the density of traffic flows and regional cohesion. Czech Technology Agency. Co-Researcher.
- 2015–2017 Real Functioning of the Centrally Planned Economy in Czechoslovakia. The Czech Science Foundation. Member of Research Team.
- 2014–2015 Optimization and Improvement of Competitive Tendering in the Passenger Railway Transport in the Czech Republic according to EU Directives. Czech Technology Agency. Co-Researcher.
- 2012–2013 Optimization of the Competition Regulatory Framework in Freight and Passenger Railway Transport in the Czech Republic. Czech Technology Agency. Co-Researcher.
- 2010–2012 Historiography in Europe after 1990. The Czech Science Foundation. Member of Research Team.
- 2007–2010 The Isolated Island: West Berlin under the Administration of Willy Brandt (1961–1966). The Life behind the Berlin Wall. The Charles University Grant. Researcher.
- 2007–2010 Member of Research Team at the Charles University on the Development of Chemistry Lectures at the German University in Prague, University of Vienna and University of Leipzig 1882–1945.
- 2008 Research Fellowships in Bonn (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftungsarchiv), Wien (Bruno-Kreisky-Archiv), Berlin (Landesarchiv) and Washington DC (NARA)
- 2007 Research Fellowships in Leipzig (National Library), Berlin (Landesarchiv) and Bonn (Archive of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation)
- 2005/2006 two short-term Research Fellowships in the National Archives in London, Kew and the Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf, BRD
Lecturing
- Bachelor Thesis Seminar
- German history
- History of Eastern Europe
- Germany and Austria 1989 - 2008
- Contemporary History of the German Speaking Countries
- Conversatorium on Contemporary Questions