{"id":1338,"date":"2026-06-19T12:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/?page_id=1338"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:22:56","slug":"zuzana-jurasova","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de\/en\/zuzana-jurasova\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuzana Jurasova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mgr.\/Doctoral Researcher<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor\/advisor: Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zuzana Jurasova studied Political Science and Public Law at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg, where her bachelor\u2019s thesis was recognised for outstanding achievement. She holds a master\u2019s degree in Translation and Interpreting from Comenius University in Bratislava. She later worked as a research associate at the Institute of Political Science at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg. In 2024, together with Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach, she co-led a research lab on academic freedom and international human rights protection in cooperation with the Scholars at Risk Network. She is currently pursuing a PhD as a Konrad Adenauer Foundation doctoral fellow. Her project examines the erosion of democracy and human rights in Europe through a qualitative study of Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Using a comparative case study design and process tracing, it analyzes how institutional change, populism, political polarization, external authoritarian influence and civil society mobilization interact in democratic backsliding. The study situates these dynamics within broader debates on autocratization as a megatrend affecting human rights. Her research interests include autocratization, democratic resilience and human rights contestations with a focus on Eastern Europe. In parallel, she works as a lecturer in Swedish at the University\u2019s Language Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n

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