Marie Láníková is a sociologist and an assistant professor at the University of Hradec Králové. Her main research interests include women’s activism, expertise, and gender history in post-1945 Czechoslovakia.
In 2024, she successfully defended her dissertation thesis “Herstory of State Socialism: Czechoslovak Women’s Union, Expertise, and Women’s Empowerment, 1960s–1980s.” In her dissertation, she argues that female experts were in charge of the CWU. By using their expertise and collaborating with other experts and skilled women, they were able to achieve various changes in politics for women.
In 2022, she held a Aktion Österreich-Tschechien Semesterstipendium at the University of Vienna. Her papers appeared in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, and Gender and Research.