Vojtech Pojar is an Assistant Professor in the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program at the American University of Central Asia. He recently obtained his PhD (summa cum laude) in Comparative History from Central European University in Vienna, Austria, with a dissertation at the intersection of the history of modern political thought and the history of science. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Comparative History (2017) from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and a Master of Arts in Social and Economic History (2016) from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
Vojtech joined AUCA in August 2024 as a Global Teaching Fellow and teaches the Graduate Research Project I, Historiography, and Introduction to World History for Educators courses.
Before joining AUCA, Vojtech held a Fellowship for Early Career Researchers at Collegium Carolinum in Munich, Germany, and Young Researcher Fellowship at the Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales in Prague, Czech Republic. He also has previous teaching experience as a Teaching Fellow at the Global History Lab (2020–2021), an initiative of Princeton University and OSUN, and as a Teaching Assistant in the Historiography course at Central European University (2019) in Vienna, Austria.
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen/Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria (2025, February-June)
- Global Teaching Fellowship, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic (2024, August-December)
- Research Stipend, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, US (2024, May-July)
- Fellowship for Early Career Researchers, Collegium Carolinum, Munich, Germany (2024, April/May)
- Doctoral Write-Up Grant, Central European University, Vienna (2023)
- Young Researcher Fellowship, Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales, Prague, Czech Republic (2021-2023)
- CEU Doctoral Scholarship, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna (2017-2020)
- Péter Hanák Prize for the best M.A. thesis; Academic Achievement Award for the best GPA in the class, Central European University, Budapest (2017)
- Full CEU Scholarship, Master’s Level, Central European University, Budapest (2016-2017)
- First prize for the paper presented at the Czech Scientific Conference of the Undergraduate History Students; Josef Šusta Memorial Prize for the best student paper of the year, Brno, Czech Republic (2016)
- East Central Europe
- Habsburg Studies
- History of science
- Intellectual History
- Modern History (19th and 20th Centuries)
- Social History
- “Symbiosis and Mutual Aid: The Trajectories of Two Concepts in Post-Imperial Transitions, ca. 1910-1930,” in Negotiating Post-Imperial Transitions in East Central Europe, 1914-1930, vol. 4., eds. Elisabeth Haid-Lener and Cody J. Inglis (Budapest: Central European University Press, forthcoming)
- “Feeding Expertise: 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
- “A Dark Coevolution: Racial Discourses and Transnationalism in Interwar Czechoslovakia,” European Review of History 31, no. 1 (2024): 47–74
- “Rethinking the Dark Side of Transnationalism from East Central and Eastern Europe.” European Review of History 31, no. 1 (2024): 1–16 (with Anna Grutza, Janka Kovács, and Anastassiya Schacht)
- “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
- “Politics of Plastic Nationhood: Sokol Mass Gymnastics and Eugenics Between Empire and Nation-States,” East Central Europe 50, no. 2–3 (2023): 155–79 (with Lucija Balikić)
- “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 (with Lucija Balikić and John Paul Newman)
- “Resisting Nazi Racism in Post-Habsburg Spaces: Connecting the Debates in Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Yugoslavia in the early 1930s,” East Central Europe 49 (2022), 97–120
- Graduate Research Project I
- Historiography
- Introduction to World History for Educators
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