Michal Racyn, Ph.D.
Michal Racyn, Ph.D.

Work to create the dots, then marvel at how they connect.

Digital Humanities & Archival Research

I’m a researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University, working across archival theory, digital methods, and humanities computing. This site collects my research, teaching materials, and the tools I build along the way.

Digital humanities OCR/HTR Archival research Eurasianism

This website is under construction — more to come soon.

Michal Racyn

Meet me

Historical Network Research Conference · Turin · July 20–22, 2026

I’ll be attending

Not presenting this time — just there to listen, learn, and talk shop. Feel free to say hi if you spot me.

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DH2026 · “Engagement” · Daejeon, South Korea

See my workshop online

My workshop, “Building a Unified Open-Source Pipeline for Archival Data Analysis,” runs Monday, July 27 (afternoon, 14:00–18:00 KST) as part of the pre-conference program, streamed live for remote attendees. Feel free to reach out if you’d like to join online or just want to chat about it beforehand.

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Let’s connect

Current projects

CESNET Development Fund · July–August 2026

Modular Open-Source Workflow for the Analysis of Archival Documents

A modular workflow built on open-source tools (ownCloud, Zotero, Arkindex, Nodegoat, Logseq, Open WebUI) that I use in my own research on archival documents and have been developing long-term. You can get to know the workflow through my conference outputs on digital humanities.

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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship · September 2026 – August 2029

COLD-WAR-EURASIA: Transformation of Eurasianism in US Cold War Slavic Studies

A Horizon Europe project, in cooperation with Columbia University, applying digital analysis to unpublished archival documents from Prague, Saint Petersburg, and New York to trace how Eurasianist thought evolved in US Cold War academia — centered on historian G. V. Vernadsky.

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Publications

Book cover: The Transformation of Eurasianism in Soviet Intellectual Milieu, 1950s–1990s
Book · Bloomsbury

The Transformation of Eurasianism in Soviet Intellectual Milieu, 1950s–1990s

Blurring the Lines and Establishing Artificial Continuity

A study of how Eurasianist historiographic and historisophic concepts developed and transformed within Soviet academia — tracing the contacts between interwar Eurasianists P. N. Savitsky and G. V. Vernadsky and Soviet intellectuals, above all L. N. Gumilev, from the end of WWII to the collapse of the USSR.

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Feel free to contact me

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© 2026 Michal Racyn
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