Mirek Tobiáš Hošman

I am a Ph.D. candidate on a joint double degree program at University of Bologna and Paris City University. I was a fellow at the Cold War Archives Research (CWAR) Institute at the Wilson Center in 2023/2024. In Fall 2023, I was a visiting fellow at the Department of History at Harvard University.

My doctoral research analyzes the construction of economic expertise at the World Bank in the 1960s, during the so-called Development Decade.

I am pursuing international and multi-archival historical research combined with a global research outlook. I have accessed archives in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, participated in work and research stays in Italy, France, Estonia, Japan, and the United States, and presented my work at conferences and workshops in Europe, North America, and Latin America.

Latest publications include "'The Most Important Research Project': The World Bank and the Commodity Problem in the 1960s" (European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2024) and "History and Histories of the World Bank" (co-authored with Michele Alacevich) in The Elgar Companion to the World Bank (Edgar Elgar, 2024).