Vojt臎ch Ripka, Ph.D.

vojtech.ripka@aauni.edu

Letenska 5, Prague 1

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Vojt臎ch Ripka, PhD (*1979), is a historian and researcher at the Anglo-American University, the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and at the Institute for Contemporary History of Czech Academy of Sciences. He is an expert on history education for the Council of Europe, Euroclio and the Czech delegation at IHRA. He studied political science and comparative social politics at Masaryk University in Brno and the University of Oxford.

Ripka established and headed the Department of Education at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in Prague, Czech Republic, from 2008 to 2023. Among his most significant achievements are the Silver European Belma Award 2022 for the second-best educational material in Europe and establishing the Institute as the most crucial educational content provider among history teachers (according to the Czech School Inspection Survey 2021-2023). 

In the field of digital humanities, he has extensive experience in the creation of educational aids, including at School; ; ; and , and expert consultancy on documentary films: Vergessene Grenze, 2022, and War Correspondent, 2024.

Specializations

Generative Artificial Intelligence in the context of pedagogy and historiography; social science research methods; history education; digital humanities; history of Central and Eastern Europe after 1945; comparative welfare systems

Publications & Other Activities

Monographs

  • MA艩KOV脕, Tereza – RIPKA, Vojt臎ch. 沤elezn谩 opona v 膶eskoslovensku: Usmrcen铆 na 膷eskoslovensk媒ch st谩tn铆ch hranic铆ch v letech 1948鈥�1989, 脷stav pro studium totalitn铆ch re啪im暖 : Sociologick媒 煤stav AV 膶R, v.v.i., 2015 197 s. ISBN 978-80-87912-31-7
  • KOUTSK脕, Ivana 鈥� RIPKA, Vojt臎ch. 鈥� 沤脕膶EK, Pavel (eds): Ob膷ansk茅 f贸rum, den prvn铆. Vznik OF v dokumentech a fotografi铆ch. 脷STR 鈥� M臎stsk谩 膷谩st Praha 1, Praha 2009, 192 s.

Book Chapters (Recent)

  • RIPKA, Vojt臎ch (forthcoming). History Education and Civics in the Context of the Education System of the Czech Republic鈥澛爄n FODOR, Richard 聽– T脫TH, Judit (eds): Comparative analysis of 16 national regulatory frameworks. MCC Press
  • RIPKA, Vojt臎ch (forthcoming) Taking Mediality Seriously: 鈥淩elationships to the Past in Action鈥� in PAIREDER, Bettina – ECKER, Alois – CHAPMAN, Arthur – R眉sen, Jorn – GIBSON, Lindsay (eds): Historical Consciousness, Historical Thinking, Historical Culture, Graz University press
  • RIPKA, Vojt臎ch – S脻KOROV脕, Pavla – M脺NICH, Ji艡铆 – CHVOJKA, Edita. 鈥淓pistemic Cognition Triangulated: What Can We Learn about the Theory of Epistemic Beliefs in History from Reassessment of Its Measurement.鈥� In ZANAZANIAN, Paul 聽– 聽ELMERSJ脰, Henrik 脜str枚m (eds.): History teachers鈥� epistemic considerations, (Palgrave- Springer, 2024), pp. 307-324.聽.
  • RIPKA, Vojt臎ch, 鈥橠oporu膷eno 膷铆st鈥�. 2022. In聽Doporu膷eno nezve艡ej艌ovat: fungov谩n铆 propagandy, cenzury a m茅di铆 v pozdn臎 normaliza膷n铆m 膶eskoslovensku, by David Klime拧, Vyd谩n铆 prvn铆, 9鈥�16. Praha: Academia.
  • RIPKA, Vojt臎ch – HO艠EN脥, Karina, 鈥楢nti- Communist Resistance in Didactical Perspective鈥�, in Violent Resistance. From the Baltics to Central and South Eastern Europe 1945-1956., ed. by David Schriffl and Michael Gehler (Vienna: 脰AW, 2020), pp. 40鈥�80
  • RIPKA, Vojt臎ch, HO艠EN脥, Karina 鈥濷dboj a odpor jako v媒zkumn茅 t茅ma – inspirace pro cestu pod povrch”. In T艡et铆 odboj v didaktick茅 perspektiv臎, editoval Jaroslav Pinkas, 17鈥�48. D臎jiny v diskuzi. Praha: 脷STR a NLN, 2020.
  • RIPKA, Vojt臎ch – HO艠EN脥, Karina, 鈥楶r暖b臎h a v媒stupy testov谩n铆 aplikace HistoryLab.cz鈥�, in NAJBERT, Jaroslav (ed.) Prom媒拧let d臎jepis v 21. stolet铆: Digit谩ln铆 aplikace pro pr谩ci s prameny HistoryLab.cz, (Praha: 脷stav pro studium totalitn铆ch re啪im暖, 2017)
  • RIPKA, Vojt臎ch. – Mare拧, Miroslav. Czech Republic: The Awakening of the politics of Welfare in Schubert, Klaus; Villota Gil-Escoin, Paloma; Kuhlmann, Johanna (eds.) (2016): Current Challenges to European Welfare Systems. New York: Springer Publishing.

Journal Articles (recent)

  • KLIME艩, David – RIPKA, Vojt臎ch: History as the glue of online-published conspiracy theories and possible implications for collective memory.聽Historical Encounters 12(1), (2025). 36鈥�49.
  • RIPKA, Vojt臎ch – S脻KOROV脕, Pavla: Epistemick谩 p艡esv臎d膷en铆 v d臎jepise.聽Historie 鈥� Ot谩zky 鈥� Probl茅my (History, Issues, Problems),听15(2023), 55鈥�72.
  • BURE艩, Miroslav 鈥� RIPKA, Vojt臎ch 鈥� BURE艩OV脕, Karolina 鈥� FRAJT脕K, Karel 鈥� MAHA, Ji艡铆 鈥� 膶IN脕TL, Kamil: An Analysis of the Experience of Using Innovative E-learning Support for Modern History Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Lockdown, Sustainability 14(6), (2022), DOI:
  • RIPKA, Vojt臎ch – NAJBERT, Jaroslav – 膶IN脕TL, Kamil, 鈥楬istorick谩 gramotnost v aplikaci HistoryLab: realistick媒 p艡铆stupu k osvojov谩n铆 didaktick茅 teorie d臎jepisu鈥�, Historie-Ot谩zky-Probl茅my, 2/2021 (accepted)
  • RIPKA, Vojt臎ch – NAJBERT, Jaroslav – P脻CHA, 膶en臎k – PINKAS, Jaroslav – 
  • 膶IN脕TL, Kamil, 鈥楧igit谩ln铆 technologie ve v媒uce d臎jepisu a dal拧铆ch spole膷enskov臎dn铆ch P艡edm臎t暖鈥�, Marginalia Historica, 8 (2017), 25鈥�40
  • RIPKA, Vojt臎ch. Socialism Realised. In: Public History Weekly 5 (2017) 19, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1515/phw-2017-9294.

Digital humanities

  • Editorial team. HistoryLab.cz 鈥� digital application for history (educational software). Accessible online: (co-author)
  • Editorial team.  Socialism Realised. Life in Communist Czechoslovakia 1948-1989 [educational application]. Prague: Institute For the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, 2016. Accessible online: (co-author)
  • Editorial team. The Victims of the Occupation 1968. Accessible online: () (leader)
  • Editorial team. This Century at School. Czech television, 2018. Accessible online: . (co-author)
  • Editorial team. Killings on the Czechoslovak Border – online map. Usmrcen铆 na 膷eskoslovensk茅 hranici- elektronick谩 mapa. Accessible online: (co-author)
  • /Editorial team: History in the 21st century.. Accessible online: (co-author)