Dr.

Darko Leitner-Stojanov

Darko.Leitner-Stojanov(at)oeaw.ac.at

Darko Leitner-Stojanov is a project collaborator in the research unit Balkan Studies.

Brief Biography


Darko Leitner-Stojanov is a historian, holding a PhD degree in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - Paris (2013). From 2009 to 2022 he was a researcher at the Institute of National History – Skopje/University of Skopje, and was a visiting researcher at the University of New York in Tirana (2014-2019). In 2019 he was the holder of the Otto Bennemann Grant for Innovative Methodological Approaches in International Textbook Research at the Georg-Eckert (Leibniz) Institute in Braunschweig, for his work on „Science and Technology in Yugoslav history textbooks“, and in 2014-2015 he was an Ernst Mach (worldwide) research fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies/University of Graz. From 2014 until 2020 he was a member of an international research network led by the Humboldt University in Berlin, with focus on the history of socialist Yugoslavia. In September 2022, Darko Leitner-Stojanov joined the Balkan studies department again, for the project „Tracing the social life of photographs: Private photographic practices of Yugoslav immigrants in Vienna (1960s-1980s)“, supported by Stadt Wien/MA7.

Research Interests


Period: 19th-20th century
Area: Southeastern Europe, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Vienna
Topics: History of migration, historical political myths, history of education

 

Selected Publications


  • Forthcoming in Oct.2022 - S. Gruber & D. Leitner-Stojanov, Von Nordmazedonien nach Wien: Eine statistische und ethnografische Untersuchung ihrer Gemeinden und Kulturvereine (2002-2021), in: M. Jakiša & K. Tyran (Hg.), Südslawisches Wien: Zur Sichtbarkeit und Präsenz südslawischer Sprachen und Kulturen im Wien der Gegenwart, Böhlau Verlag: Wien, 2022.
  • The Myth of Victimization in Macedonian History Textbooks (1991-2018), in: G. Ognjenović & J. Jozelić (eds.), Nationhood and Politicization of History in School Textbooks. Identity, the Curriculum and Educational Media, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 227-252 (co-author).
  • Militarization via Education: A 1945 Primer from Socialist Macedonia, JEMMS 11/1 (2019), 35-52.
  • A country of progress or a country in crisis? Socialist Yugoslavia in Macedonian history textbooks, in: Grandits, H. et alii (eds.), Representations of Socialist Yugoslavia. Re-examinations and Perspectives, UMHIS & Srednja Europa: Sarajevo-Zagreb, 2019, 73-80 (in Serbo-Croatian).
  • Remembering and Forgetting SFR Yugoslavia: Historiography and History Textbooks in the Republic of Macedonia, Südosteuropa 64/2 (2016), 206-225 (co-author).
  • It’s all gone now: Yugoslavia in the memories of people from Macedonia, Forum Civil Peace Service (Skopje office)/Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology/Center for Research of Nationalism and Culture, Skopje, 2017 (co-editor).

Further Publications

Books

Books

Editions and Collections

Editions and Collections

Articles

Articles

Other Publications

Other Publications

Project


Picturing Migrants Lives'

Tracing the social life of photographs

North Macedonians in Vienna (completed)

 

Miscellaneous


D. Leitner-Stojanov, Dialoge im Geist von Freundschaft und Animosität, Der Standard, 6. Mai 2022 (Balkan-Blog online).

 

Publications


The Myth of Victimization in Macedonian History Textbooks (1991-2018), pp. 227-252


 

Militarization via Education: A 1945 Primer from Socialist Macedonia, pp. 35-52


 

Between History and Politics: Understanding Antiquitas Myths in Macedonian History Textbooks, pp. 77-95