Dr Ludek Broz

Ludek Broz is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences where he heads the Department of Ecological Anthropology. After his undergraduate studies in ethnology at the Charles University in Prague, he obtained MPhil and PhD degrees in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge and held a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle.

Ludek heads an ERC-funded project VETERINARIZATION OF EUROPE?
Hunting for Wild Boar Futures in the Time of African Swine Fever (BOAR). He is fascinated by what he coined ‘veterinarization of society’ and the way it shapes joined human-porcine futures. His ambition is to contribute with the BOAR project to better understanding of the role of veterinary expertise in contemporary societies—in human-animal relations and beyond—thus helping to build the emerging field of veterinary anthropology.

Ludek is the author of Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia (Berghahn, 2024) and co-editor of Suicide and Agency: Anthropological Perspectives on Self-destruction, Personhood and Power (Routledge, 2016) with Daniel Muenster.