Marek Mikuš is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research interests include anthropology of politics, development, postsocialism, globalisation, and Roma in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. From September 2010, he is carrying out an ethnography of practices and meanings associated with processes of democratisation, Europeanisation and civil-society building in Belgrade, Serbia.
Marek's PhD research is funded by an LSE PhD Scholarship and a scholarship of the International Visegrad Fund. The project is supervised by Professor Deborah James (LSE) and Dr Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE).