Martina is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Historical Studies. Her doctoral research under the supervision of doc. PhDr. Lucie Storchová, Ph.D., DSc focuses on Slovenian punk as a subcultural formation, with particular attention to questions of identity, belonging, and authenticity. Her dissertation, Shaping a Postmodern Subcultural Identity and the Meaning of Belonging: A Relational Perspective on Establishing a Punk Subculture in Slovenia, examines the emergence and development of the Slovenian punk subculture during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.

Drawing on the relational perspective proposed by dr. Martin Hěrmanský and dr. Hedvika Novotná as her dissertation’s theoretical framework, Martina approaches subculture not as an isolated or purely oppositional phenomenon, but as a dynamic field of interactions among diverse actors, institutions, and social forces. Through empirical research, she explores how Slovenian punk was established and sustained through these relationships, while also addressing questions of subcultural authenticity prior to punk’s diffusion into the Yugoslav New Wave.

Alongside her doctoral research, Martina is actively involved in academic community-building. Under the mentorship of prof. dr. Rajko Muršič, she has co-organized several international students’ doctoral conferences at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, focusing on anthropology, social realities, memory, identity, and culture in traditional, modern, and digital contexts (2023–2025).

She also teaches undergraduate courses on youth culture and subcultures at Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, within the Liberal Arts and Humanities programme: Cultural Revolutions: Subcultures and Countercultures of the 20th Century and Anthropologies of the 20th Century Youth Cultures. Her broader research interests include punk and post-punk studies, youth cultures, alternative cultures, countercultures, memory, identity, ethnography, and postmodern subcultural theories.

Martina lives and works in Prague.