Priv.-Doz. Dr. Lars Fredrik Stöcker

Lars Fredrik Stöcker is a historian working on the transnational history of Northern, East Central and Eastern Europe. His dissertation on oppositional networks across the Baltic Sea during the Cold War, which he completed at the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence, was published as a monograph in 2018 in Mark Kramer’s Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series and awarded with the Michael Mitterauer Book Prize for Social, Cultural and Economic History in Vienna. Following postdoctoral employments at the University of Tallinn and Uppsala University and a nine-month fellowship at the Imre-Kertész-Kolleg at the University of Jena, he worked as a researcher at the University of Vienna from 2015 to 2025, where he completed his habilitation in newest and contemporary history in 2024. Focusing on the history of Northeastern Europe in his teaching, he was appointed coordinator for Baltic Sea Region studies at the Department for Scandinavian Studies at the University of Vienna in 2021 and spent one year as temporary chair for Nordic History at the University of Greifswald in 2023-24. In January 2026, he started a new position as senior researcher at the Nordost-Institut at the University of Hamburg.