Markéta Hajská, a graduate of Anthropology and Ethnology at Charles University's Faculty of Arts, works as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Central European Studies at Charles University's Faculty of Arts. She focuses on the anthropology, history, and language of Vlach Roma in Czechia and Slovakia. She has completed a number of research stays among Romani communities in the Czech Republic and abroad (Great Britain, France, Slovakia, Sweden). She was the principal investigator for the projects Oral History of Czechoslovakia and the Vlach Roma (2018) and Dictionary of Vlach Romani (2016, 2017), and also collaborated on the creation of the Dictionary of Vlach Romani (2018).
She translates from Romani into Czech and from Czech and English into Romani. She contributed to a trilogy of documentary graphic novels in the O přibjehi series (Lipnik 2009, 2010) – in 2010, one of the comics, Albína, won the Muriel Award. This was followed by the publication of five documentary graphic novels, Voices of Endangered Children, in the Uncertain Homes series (Ašta šmé 2015-2017). She is the author of a monograph published in English under the title The Stojka Family (Karolinum 2025).
For the Kher publishing house, in collaboration with translator Iveta Kokyová, she translated Sofie Taikon's graphic novel Žofi Z-4515 from Kalderash.
