Dr. František Šístek holds a doctoral degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Charles University, Prague (2007). He graduated from the Central European University in Budapest, where he earned his M.A. in history in 2001. Since 2006, Šístek has worked as a research fellow at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He has also taught modern history and anthropology of the Balkans at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. He is the editor-in-chief of Slovanský přehled / Slavonic Review (founded in 1898), the primary and oldest Czech scholarly journal devoted to Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. His research interests have revolved around national identities, images and stereotypes of the “other“, competing interpretations of the past in the Balkans and contemporary politics in former Yugoslavia. He has published several monographs and collective volumes, including F. Šístek (ed.), Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe (New York and Oxford, 2021), Istorija Crna Gore/A History of Montenegro (Podgorica, 2022) and The Jews of Montenegro: From Invisibility to a Community (Cetinje, 2024).
Dr František Šístek je doktorirao socijalnu i kulturnu antropologiju na Karlovom univerzitetu u Pragu (2007). Diplomirao je na Srednjoevropskom univerzitetu u Budimpešti, đe je 2001. godine stekao zvanje magistra istorije. Od 2006. godine radi kao naučni saradnik na Institutu za istoriju Češke akademije nauka u Pragu. Takođe je predavao savremenu istoriju i antropologiju Balkana na Fakultetu društvenih nauka Karlovog univerziteta u Pragu. Glavni je i odgovorni urednik časopisa Slovanský přehled / Slavonic Review (osnovan 1898. godine), najstarijeg i najvažnijeg češkog naučnog časopisa posvećenog srednjoj, istočnoj i jugoistočnoj Evropi. Njegova istraživačka interesovanja obuhvataju nacionalne identitete, predstave i stereotipe o „drugom“, suprotstavljene interpretacije prošlosti na Balkanu i savremenu politiku na prostoru bivše Jugoslavije. Objavio je više monografija i zbornika, uključujući F. Šístek (ur.), Predstavljanje bosanskih muslimana u srednjoj Evropi (New York i Oxford, 2021), Istorija Crna Gore/A History of Montenegro (Podgorica, 2022) i Jevreji u Crnoj Gori: od nevidljivosti do zajednice (Cetinje, 2024).
