izr. prof. dr. Rok Stergar

Rok Stergar is Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana and a historian of the Habsburg Empire in the long nineteenth century, the First World War, and of nationalism. He is the author of two books and numerous articles in journals and collections on nationalisms in the Habsburg Empire, the Habsburg military, and Austro-Hungarian soldier experience in the First World War. He is currently leading the three-year Slovenian Research Agency research project "Schools and Imperial, National, and Transnational Identifications: Habsburg Empire, Yugoslavia, and Slovenia" and the three year Slovene Research Agency and Czech Science Foundation joint research project "Nourishing Victory: Food Supply and Post-Imperial Transition in the Czech Lands and Slovenia, 1918-1923."

Academic Appointments

University of Ljubljana:

2013–present: Associate Professor in Modern History

2011-13: Chair, Department of History

2009-11: Deputy Chair, Department of History

2007-13: Assistant Professor in Modern History

Guest Professorship

University of Zagreb: February-May 2015, Visiting Professor

Education

Ph.D. (2003) University of Ljubljana

B.A. (1998) University of Ljubljana

Professional Service

Scientific Committee member, Centre international de recherche de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre (Peronne), 2022-

Departmental coordinator of the joint-degree master's program in the History of South-Eastern Europe (Graz, Cluj, Ljubljana), 2018–21

Chairman, Slovene Commission on Military History, Historical Association of Slovenia, 2006-10 term

Executive Board member, Historical Association of Slovenia, 2006-10 term

International Editorial Board Istraživanja: Journal of Historical Researches, 2021-

Editorial Board Vojaška zgodovina, 2003-18

Referee for Acta historiae artis Slovenica, Acta Histriae, Arhivi, Ars et Humanitas, Austrian History Yearbook, Central European History, CEPS Journal, Dve domovini / Two Homelands, European Review of History / Revue européenne d'histoire, First World War Studies, Geschichte und Region / Storia e regione, Hungarian Historical Review, Journal of Historical Sociology, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Nationalities Papers, Nations and Nationalism, Povijesni prilozi, Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino, Slavic Review, Zeitschrift für Slawistik, Zgodovinski časopis, Berghahn Books, Cankarjeva založba, Jagiellonian University Press, Ljubljana University Press, Routledge, Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenska matica, Verlag des NÖ Instituts für Landeskunde, Založba INZ, Založba ZRC

Referee for SSHRC Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2022), Leverhulme Trust (2022), GAČR Czech Science Foundation (2017, 2019, 2020, 2021), ARRS Slovenian Research Agency (2021), FWF Austrian Science Fund (2018), Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Serbia (2010)

External evaluator of the Czech Academy of Sciences research-oriented institutes, 2020

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

US-Slovene grant of the ARRS, Slovenian Research Agency, Ljubljana, 2022-24

Visiting Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence, 2022

Joint research grant of the ARRS, Slovenian Research Agency, Ljubljana, and GAČR Czech Science Foundation, Prague, 2021-24

Research grant of the ARRS, Slovenian Research Agency, Ljubljana, 2020-23

Research grant of the OEAD Kooperationsstelle Lemberg, Lviv, 2019

Research grant of the Austrian Institute for East and Southeast Europe (Österreichisches Ost- und Südosteuropa Institut), Vienna, 2003

Recent publications

Stergar, Rok. 2021. "Endloses Ende, unbestimmter Neuanfang: Die Entstehung des ersten Jugoslawien aus zeitgenössischen Perspektiven." In Sašo Jerše and Kristina Lahl, ed., Endpunkte. Und Neuanfänge: Geisteswissenschaftliche Annäherungen an die Dynamik von Zeitläuften, 199-214. Vienna: Böhlau. https://doi.org/10.7788/9783412518776.199

—. 2020. " 'Aber durch die gemeinsame einheitliche Kommandosprache wurde noch kein Mann entnationalisiert…': Slowenische katholische Politik zwischen Nationalismus, politischem Pragmatismus und Kaisertreue." Römische Quartalschrift 115, No. 3-4 (2020), 217-233. https://doi.org/10.23769/RQ-115-3-4-2020-01

—. 2020. "Habsburg South Slavs in Peace and War, 1912-1918." In John R. Lampe and Ulf Brunnbauer, eds. Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History, 181-190. Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429464799-25

—. 2020. „Continuity, Pragmatism, and Ethnolinguistic Nationalism: Public Administration in Slovenia during the Early Years of Yugoslavia“. In Peter Becker, Therese Garstenauer, Veronika Helfert, Karl Megner, Guenther Steiner, and Thomas Stockinger, eds., Hofratsdämmerung? Verwaltung und ihr Personal in den Nachfolgestaaten der Habsburgermonarchie 1918 bis 1920, 179-192. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 75. Vienna: Böhlau. http://doi.org/10.7767/9783205211525.179

—. 2019. „L'expérience des soldats austro-hongrois sur le front austro-italien: le problème du ravitaillement en vivres“. In Giovanni L. Fontana and Marco Mondini, eds. Soldati e quotidianità della guerra, 13-30. Ricerche di storia, 4. Ospedaletto (Pisa).

—. 2019. „The Evolution of Linguistic Policies and Practices of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces in the Era of Ethnic Nationalisms: The Case of Ljubljana-Laibach“. In Markian Prokopovych, Carl Bethke, and Tamara Scheer, eds. Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire, 50-71. Central and Eastern Europe, 9. Leiden, Boston: Brill. http://doi.org/10.1163/9789004407978_005

Stergar, Rok and Tamara Scheer. 2018. „Ethnic Boxes: The Unintended Consequences of Habsburg Bureaucratic Classification“. Nationalities Papers 46. 575-591. https://doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2018.1448374