Biography

Rok Stergar is Professor in Modern History 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 on nationalisms in the Habsburg Empire, the First World War, and post-imperial transitions. His third book is under contract with the CEU Press.

He is the Director of "Slovene History" research program and is currently leading (with Václav Šmidrkal) a three-year research grant "Nourishing Victory: Food Supply and Post-Imperial Transition in the Czech Lands and Slovenia, 1918-1923." His most recent publication is the article (co-authored with Jan Bernot) "A Cacophony of Classifications: Education and Identification in a Prenational Empire," Nationalities Papers (2024).