Contact
- Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century, Opletalova Street 22, Prague 1
- phone +420 603 860 454
- e-mail: vit.fojtek @ mpxx.cz
research focus
- Czech and Czechoslovak history after 1945
- Czechoslovakia between East and West during the Cold War
- Czechoslovak-American relations during the Cold War
Education
- 1999-2006 Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of American Studies, major in International Area Studies, (PhDr., 2003; Ph.D., 2006)
- 2000-2001 Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Konrad Adenauer Foundation Research Fellowship (6 months)
- 2000 University of Avignon, France, scholarship of Charles University in Prague (7 months)
- 1992-1999 Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Arts, Master's degree (Mgr., 1999), major: history (specialization: Czech recent history) - additional study of ethnology
- 1997-1998, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, scholarship of Charles University (1 year)
- 1996 National Security Archive, Washington, D.C., USA, work experience (internship, 6 months) during one year stay (1995/96) in the USA
- 1994-1995 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA, graduate of the International Education Program (PIE), Open Society Fund Fellowship (1 year).
professional curriculum
- 2020-present, Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century, z.ú., Head of Collections and Exhibitions
- 2018-2020, Jewish Museum in Prague, Department of Shoah Documentation, Curator of the Oral History Collection
- 2012-2017 Metropolitan University in Prague, o.p.s., expert reports for master and bachelor theses
- 2010-2011, Živá paměť, o.p.s., lecturer and coordinator of educational programs
- 2008-2009, Office of the President of the Republic, Foreign Department, Foreign Policy Analyst
- 1999-2008 (externally until 2019) Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of International Studies, lecturer, assistant professor
- 2002-2008, Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of English and American Studies, lecturer, assistant professor
educational projects
- the idea and direction of the documentary film "Special Events STUDENTS", (Czech Television Ostrava and Živá paměť, o.p.s., 2013)
Bibliography (selection)
- FOJTEK, Vit. "Obama's Russia policy: from reset to recalibration?". In FIŘTOVÁ, M.; HORNÁT, J.; SEHNÁLKOVÁ, J. (eds.) The presidency of Barack Obama: a vision fulfilled?: Charles University, Karolinum Publishing House, Prague, 2017 , pp. 167-191.
- FOJTEK, Vit. "Exercising Restraint": Washington's Reaction to the 1968 Czechoslovak Crisis. In DAVID, Zdenek V.; RASKA, JR, Karel F. (eds.): Contributions of Czechs and Slovaks to Science and Technology in the 21st Century. Selected Papers from Twenty-Fifth Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, Tabor, Czech Republic, June 27-July 3, 2010. ISBN 978-0-615-20256-3.
- FOJTEK, Vit. "US Foreign Policy towards Czechoslovakia in 1968 in the Context of the Vietnam War". Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Studia territorialia, XII/ 2008, pp. 33-56.
- FOJTEK, Vit. "Restraint recommended". Washington's reaction to the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Czech Journal of History, vol. 106, 3/2008, pp. 562-597.
- FOJTEK, Vit. Relations between Germany and Czechoslovakia in the 1960s as an Example of Bonn's Definition of Washington. Contemporary History, vol. 15, 1/2008, pp. 105-128.
- FOJTEK, Vit. West German Foreign Policy in Relation to Czechoslovakia in the 1960s as an Example of Bonn's Definition of Washington. Prague Social Science Studies. Territorial Series TER-021.
- FOJTEK Vít. West German Policy towards Czechoslovakia as an Example of Bonn's Determination towards Washington. Kosmas: Journal of Czechoslovak and Central European Studies. Vol. 20, no. 2 (Spring 2007), pp. 46-67.
- FOJTEK, Vit. "West European Security in the Aftermath of the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia", Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Studia territorialia, V/ 2003, pp. 17-47.
- FOJTEK, Vit. "NATO after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia", International Politics, 9/2001, pp. 13-15.
- FOJTEK, Vit. "Another glass, Anatoly?", Lidove noviny, 17 August 2002, p. 24.