Prague Faculty

Frank Mungeam is the Director of Digital Media for the NBC broadcast group in Portland, Oregon where he manages the Murrow Award winning kgw.com news web site. Mungeam has built and launched four mobile news apps and a news iPad app. Before moving into Digital media in 1998, Mungeam was an Emmy Award winning TV producer and executive producer for network affiliates in Seattle and Portland. Mungeam has a degree in Psychology from Harvard and a Masters in Communications from Gonzaga University. He is also Adjunct Faculty at Washington State University’s Center for Media and Digital Culture. His travel articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and Canada. He will direct the program in Prague in 2012.

Kateřina Průšová studied Art History at the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the Charles University (Prague), where she obtained her Mgr. and PhDr. degrees. She worked at diverse art galleries in Prague and Paris (Paul Prouté S.A, Old Master etchings and drawings). She was awarded different scholarships and internships in France (BNF Paris, Montpellier) and Italy (Perugia). Kateřina is a lecturer for several study abroad programs in Prague, such as the Charles University (International Studies Abroad) and she teaches Prague Art and Architecture at the Anglo-American University. She works equally at the National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Old Masters (St. Agnes Monastery, Sternberg Palace). Kateřina specialized in French and Flemish late medieval manuscript illumination. Her fields of interest include medieval painting in Bohemia, baroque architecture in Rome and Bohemia as well as contemporary sculpture and painting. Kateřina is fluent in four languages, namely English, French, Italian and Czech (mother tongue), she understands German and she has a reading knowledge of Hebrew and Spanish.