Ludek Broz

Ludek Broz is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, where he heads the Department of Ecological Anthropology. He previously studied ethnology at Charles University in Prague and earned MPhil and PhD degrees in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, followed by a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle.

His research focuses on the 'veterinarization of society' through the ERC-funded project Veterinarization of Europe? Hunting for Wild Boar Futures in the Time of African Swine Fever (BOAR), exploring how veterinary expertise shapes human-animal relations and societal structures. He is also 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).

Ludek's work intersects ecological anthropology, veterinary studies, and post-Soviet sociocultural dynamics. He is affiliated with the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) at the University of Cambridge for administrative purposes, though his primary affiliation remains with the Czech Academy of Sciences.