Stanislav Pejša
- Clinical Assistant Professor // History
Stanislav Pejša is a clinical assistant professor of Critical AI Literacy and History. He explores the use of computational methods in historical research, in particular text analysis of historical sources. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Purdue University, along with MA degrees in history from Charles University in Prague and Central European University in Budapest.
His prior career spans archives, libraries, and research data repositories, where he built digital collections from archival and library materials. Later, he spent more than a decade improving data management practices and developing workflows for long-term access and preservation of research data.
He uses his expertise in research data and metadata in his scholarship that combines historical research and computational methods to study the intellectual and political history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe. This work reflects his broader interest in how computational tools can illuminate historical questions, and how historical and critical perspectives can, in turn, inform the responsible use of data and artificial intelligence in humanities research.
His dissertation, Determining People, Reordering Places. Visions of Transformations of the Postwar World, 1916-1920, which received the CLA Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2025, investigates the role of British academic experts and intellectuals mobilized by the government to bring forth a new and viable reorganization of European borders and of international relations.
Stanislav Pejša's research interests lie in modern European and global history, transnational history, intellectual history, as well as computational and quantitative methods in humanities. He is passionate about the issues of open access, reproducibility, and sustainability of humanities research practices.
His prior career spans archives, libraries, and research data repositories, where he built digital collections from archival and library materials. Later, he spent more than a decade improving data management practices and developing workflows for long-term access and preservation of research data.
He uses his expertise in research data and metadata in his scholarship that combines historical research and computational methods to study the intellectual and political history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe. This work reflects his broader interest in how computational tools can illuminate historical questions, and how historical and critical perspectives can, in turn, inform the responsible use of data and artificial intelligence in humanities research.
His dissertation, Determining People, Reordering Places. Visions of Transformations of the Postwar World, 1916-1920, which received the CLA Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2025, investigates the role of British academic experts and intellectuals mobilized by the government to bring forth a new and viable reorganization of European borders and of international relations.
Stanislav Pejša's research interests lie in modern European and global history, transnational history, intellectual history, as well as computational and quantitative methods in humanities. He is passionate about the issues of open access, reproducibility, and sustainability of humanities research practices.