Vincent Hoyer, M.A.

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 19^th 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).

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). In 2026, he submitted his doctoral dissertation »Contested Amusement: Popular Entertainment and National Mobilisation in Warsaw, Lviv, and Poznań 1900«.

• History of Nationalism and Empires
• Urban History
• History of Popular Culture
• Media and Communication History
• Visual History

• Student Prize, European Association for Urban History (2026)
• Residence Grant, Center for Urban History L'viv (2025)
• 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)
• Study Scholarship, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland (2016-2017)