Vincent Hoyer, M.A.
About
Vincent Hoyer studied history and cultural history at the University of Augsburg from 2014 to 2021, including study stays abroad at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Emory University in Atlanta. In 2021, he was awarded the Scientific Promotion Prize of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland for his master's thesis on pleasure culture and nationalism in Poznań at the turn of the 19th century. From 2021 to 2023, he was a researcher at the GWZO in the project »Selling Ethnicity: Visual Media Production in Eastern Europe Around 1900 Between Nationalism and Commerce«, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM). In 2023, he completed a three-month research stay at the German Historical Institute Warsaw and worked for the »Transfer and Publishing« division of the directorate.
Since 2024, Vincent Hoyer has been a doctoral candidate at the GWZO working as a researcher on the project »Leisure under Control? The Politicization of Pleasure Cultures in the Multiethnic Cities of Warsaw, L’viv, and Poznan 1890-1914«, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Work focus
- History of Nationalism
- Urban History of Eastern Europe
- Popular Cultures
- Media History
- Visual History
Awards
- Full Scholarship, Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (2024)
- Research Grant, German Historical Institute Warsaw (2023/2024)
- Scholarship for Archive Services in Ukraine, German-Ukrainian Historical Commission (2023)
- Scientific Promotion Prize of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland 2021 (master's thesis)
- Tuition Scholarship, Laney Graduate School, Emory University (2019–2020)
- Scholarship for a Study-Integrated Stay Abroad, University of Augsburg (2019-2020)
- Scholarship for the Summer School of Polish Language and Culture, National Agency for Academic Exchange, Poland (2018)
- Study Scholarship, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland (2016-2017)