Dr. Tereza Jermanová is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and serves as the guarantor of the BA Middle Eastern Studies programme. Her research lies in the field of comparative politics and focuses on democratization, constitutions and constitution-making, authoritarianism, and the politics of Tunisia and Egypt. She is the author of the book Making Constitutions: Democratization and Authoritarianism in Tunisia and Egypt (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2026). She is also the Principal Investigator of the Charles University–funded project (im)vision, which maps imaginaries of political transformation in the Middle East. Her previous research, including multiple rounds of fieldwork conducted in Egypt and Tunisia, was supported by the Marguerite Ross Barnett Fund Grant, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the American Political Science Association, and the Chancellor’s Scholarship at the University of Warwick. Some of her findings have appeared in journals including Political Research Quarterly, Acta Politica, and Middle East Law & Governance. Her research has also received the PSA Autocracy and Regime Change Specialist Group Best Paper Award (2025) and the PSA Graduate Network Best Paper Award (2015). Dr. Jermanová is also involved in the research project CoRe (Beyond Security: The Role of Conflict in Building Resilience) at Charles University and serves as a Research Fellow at the Prague-based think tank Association for International Affairs. She earned her PhD in Comparative Politics from the University of Warwick in 2019 and holds an MA in North African Politics from the University of Exeter.
Contact information: tereza.jermanova@ff.cuni.cz
Jermanová, Tereza. Making Constitutions: Democratization and Authoritarianism in Tunisia and Egypt. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming (2026).
Heibach, Jens, and Tereza Jermanová. “Coalition Maintenance during Democratization: Comparative Insights from Tunisia and Yemen”, Middle East Law and Governance (published online ahead of print 2023), doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/18763375-20231398
“From Mistrust to Understanding: Inclusive Constitution-Making Design and Agreement in Tunisia.” Political Research Quarterly 74:4 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1065912920967106
“Before Constitution-making: The Struggle for Constitution-Making Design in Post-revolutionary Egypt.” Acta Politica 55 (2020), 648-669: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-019-00137-4
„Constitution-Making Processes During Democratization: Egypt and Tunisia after the 2010/11 Uprisings.” 7 January 2021, Maghrib in Past & Present Podcasts.
Jermanová, Tereza (et al.). (2019) “Middle East and Africa.” In Agenda for Czech Foreign Policy 2019. Prague: Association for International Affairs.
„Little Pink Notebook, or Fragments of my Manic Fieldwork Adventures.” 8 February2018, LSE Field Research Method Lab.
Dostál, Vít, and Tereza Jermanová (eds.). 2017. Agenda for Czech Foreign Policy 2017. Prague: Association for International Affairs.
Jermanová, Tereza, Tomáš Kaválek, and Jakub Záhora. 2016. “Middle East and North Africa.” In Agenda for Czech Foreign Policy 2016. Prague: Association for International Affairs (51-4).
„The Nobel Peace Prize reminds Tunisians of the limits of their revolution.” 15 October 2015, Politics Reconsidered.