Lucie Dušková is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of History at Charles University, Prague. Her research brings together aspects of social and labour history in conversation with popular culture and economic history. Her current research focuses on the process of creating the concept of ‘decent work’ in postwar Europe from a transnational perspective.
The acquired findings are elaborated in her work-in-progress monograph, currently titled Creating the ideal of work between state socialism and post-socialist transformation: thinking, practice, and contexts. She is a graduate of Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier, France) and Charles University. During her doctoral studies, she was awarded several scholarships, including those from the Czech-German Fund of Future, Bayhost, and the Visegrad Scholarship. She received the European Revue of History Translation Prize for the best doctoral essay.
Between 2022 and 2025, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig, Germany. Together with Ger Duijzing, she co-edited the volume Working at Night the Temporal Organisation of Labour Across Political and Economic Regimes (De Gruyter, 2022). A monograph based on her Ph.D. was published in Czech in 2024 and is forthcoming with CEU Press under the title The Making of Socialist Night Society. Imagination and Everyday Life in Czechoslovakia 1945–1960. Her research has appeared in various international journals, such as the European Review of History and International Labour and Working-Class History.