Markéta Křížová is Professor of Ibero-American Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Her research involves the history of overseas expansion, migrations and cultural transfers, history of modern slavery, as well as intellectual history (including the history of museums and history of racial thought). Her previous publications include the edited volume (with Jitka Maleckova) Central Europe and the Non-European world in the long 19th century (Berlin 2022).