Research Associate

Agáta Šústová Drelová is a researcher in contemporary history of religion and an author of a weekly history podcast at Slovak daily SME. A University of Exeter and University of St Andrews graduate, she has been the beneficiary of a number of scholarships including research fellowship at the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. Recently she has been based at the Institute of History (Slovak Academy of Sciences) and participated in the Post-secular approach to memory processes in Central-Eastern Europe project where she explored the nexus of gender and national identity within post-war Catholic memory in Slovakia. She is the author of several articles and book chapters focusing on religion, national identity and nationalism in late socialist and early post-socialist Czechoslovakia: her texts can be found in Handbuch der Religions- und Kirchengeschichte der Slowakei im 20. Jahrhundert (2024), After Utopia : Czechoslovak Normalization between Experiment and Experience, 1968-1989. (2022) or Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective (2022). Currently she divides her time between her two children, research and popularisation of history.