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Dr. phil. Jan Vondráček, Ph.D.

E-mail: vondracek@mua.cas.cz

Phone: +420 286 010 565

Room: B 205

Specialization

  • T. G. Masaryk
  • History of Scientific Institutions in Czechoslovakia after 1952

Education:

  • 2017: Dr. phil. – Ph.D. Chemnitz University of Technology
  • 2011: M.A. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • 2009: B.A. Darmstadt University of Technology

Research Interests:

  • History of Democracy
  • History of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
  • Digital Humanities

Research Projects since 2010:

  • Since 2025 Connected History Project (CHiP), (Czech Academy of Sciences, Lumina quaeruntur, LQ300772501)
  • Since 2022 Institutional Data Shaping Digital History (MIT-Czech Republic Seed Fund), together with Dr. Kurt Fendt (MIT)
  • Since 2022 “Militant Democracy”. A History of the shaping, defense and perception of the First
    Czechoslovakian Republic 1918–1938 (Czech Science Foundation, GN22-36226O)
  • 2012–2014 Societies under German Occupation (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung)

Teaching Practice since 2010:

  • Faculty of Humanities, Charles University Prague
  • Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague
  • Summer School Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Vienna 2019
  • University of Wuppertal (2011–2019)

Membership in Editorial Boards, University Bodies and Scholarly Societies since 2010:

  • Austrian Studies Association
  • German Studies Association

Awards

 

Bibliography:

Publication list at MIA CAS: here

Most Important Publications

Books

  • Státní moc, politická správa a každodennost. Prosazování řízeného hospodářství v politickém okrese Kladno v Protektorátu Čechy a Morava 1939–1945, Praha 2021.
  • Herrschaft, Verwaltung und Alltag im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren. Alltägliches Wirtschaften im politischen Bezirk Kladno von 1939 bis 1945, Marburg 2021.

Articles in Journals

  • War Economy, Local Administration and Everyday Life under German Occupation in Bohemia and Moravia: New Approaches for Digital Humanities through Digitization, Databases and Digital Analysis, in: Journal of East Central European Studies 70 (2021), 439-465.

Book Chapters

Translation from Czech into German