Mgr. Vojtěch Pojar, Ph.D.

Education:

• 2024 Ph.D., Comparative History, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
• 2017 M.A., Comparative History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
• 2016 M.A., Social and Economic History, Charles University, Prague
• 2013 B.A., History, Charles University, Prague

Research Interests:

• Transnational Intellectual History of East Central Europe
• Critical History of Eugenics
• Habsburg Empire and Post-Imperial Transitions

Awards:

• 2025 Austria’s Award of Excellence: Best Dissertation Award
• 2025 Central European University’s Best Dissertation Award
• 2017 Péter Hanák Prize (for the best M.A. thesis), Central European University
• 2017 Academic Achievement Award (for the highest GPA in the class), Central European University
• 2016 First Prize, Czech Scientific Conference of Undergraduate History Students, Brno
• 2016 Josef Šusta Memorial Prize (for the best student paper), The Association of Historians in Czechia

Fellowships

• 2025/2026 Postdoctoral Fellowship, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
• 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• 2024 OSUN Global Teaching Fellowship, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
• 2024 Research Stipend, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, USA
• 2024 Fellowship for Early Career Researchers, Collegium Carolinum, Munich, Germany
• 2021/2023 Young Researcher Fellowship, Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales, Prague

Bibliography

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

• Vojtěch Pojar. “Feeding Experts: Hunger Crisis and the Discourses of Eugenics in Imperial Austria, 1916–1918.” Střed/Centre: Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries 16, no. 1 (2024): 7–34.
• Vojtěch Pojar. “A Dark Coevolution: Racial Discourses and Transnationalism in Interwar Czechoslovakia.” European Review of History 31, no. 1 (2024): 47–74.
• Vojtěch Pojar; Anna Grutza; Janka Kovács; Anastassiya Schacht. “Rethinking the Dark Side of Transnationalism from East Central and Eastern Europe.” European Review of History 31, no. 1 (2024): 1–16.
• Vojtěch Pojar. “Empire and Its Discontents: Circulation of Knowledge and the Emergence of Eugenics in the Late Habsburg Empire.” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 34, no. 3 (2023): 85–100.
• Vojtěch Pojar; Lucija Balikić. “Politics of Plastic Nationhood: Sokol Mass Gymnastics and Eugenics between Empire and Nation-States.” East Central Europe 50, no. 2–3 (2023): 155–79.
• Vojtěch Pojar; Lucija Balikić; John Paul Newman. “Introduction: The Sokol Movement between State and Society in Interwar East Central and Southeastern Europe.” East Central Europe 50, no. 2–3 (2023): 143–54.
• Vojtěch Pojar. “Resisting Nazi Racism in Post-Habsburg Spaces: Connecting the Debates in Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Yugoslavia in the early 1930s.” East Central Europe 49, no. 1 (2022): 97–120.

Book Chapters:

• Vojtěch Pojar. “‘Rovnocennost evropských plemen’ a vědecké sítě ve střední Evropě: Transnacionální perspektiva.” In: Milan Ducháček and Michal Šimůnek (eds.), Za rovnocennost evropských plemen: Československá antropologie tváří v tvář rasismu a nacismu. Prague: NLN, 2023, pp. 186–205.

Book Reviews:

• Vojtěch Pojar. Review of Biopolitik und Alltagsleben im Roten Wien: Experimentierfelder der Hohen Moderne by Reinhard Sieder. Austrian History Yearbook 57 (2026), First View, 1–2.
• Vojtěch Pojar. Review of Budapest’s Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War by Friederike Kind-Kovács. Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung/Journal of East Central European Studies 74 (2025), 289–91.
• Vojtěch Pojar. Review of Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century: Fearing for the Nation by Joachim Puttkamer, Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, and Immo Rebitschek. CEU Review of Books (October 2024).