Profile

Abstract

Oliver Krause has been the academic coordinator of the International Graduate School 2899 "Belongings: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and beyond" since April 2024. This program is a collaboration between the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow e.V. (Leipzig), the University of Leipzig, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2019, he has been conducting research, supported by a grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) between January 2020 and 2023, on the reception, adaptation, and popularization of Halford J. Mackinder's Heartland Theory in the German Reich, Great Britain, and the United States between 1904 and the 1960s. From 2017 to 2023, he worked as a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, after completing his Ph.D. on the topic of early modern state formation in the Dutch United Provinces (1650-1672) at the University of Leipzig in 2016.

Professional career

  • since 04/2024
    Scientific coordinator International Research Training Group - GRK 2899: "Belongings: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and Beyond"
  • 01/2024 - 03/2024
    Research fellow CRC 1199 "Processes of Spazialization under the Global Condition" (Project B 05, Principal invesitgaor: Prof. Dr. Dirk van Laak)
  • 02/2020 - 01/2023
    Research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in the Department of Theory, Method and History of Geography Project: Travelling Imaginations - Reception, Adaptation, and Popularization of the Heartland Theory by Halford J. Mackinder (Individual Research Grant by the German Research Foundation)
  • 09/2017 - 12/2019
    Research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in the Department of Theory, Method and History of Geography

Education

  • 04/2011 - 03/2015
    Postgraduate program in the class of Transnationalization and Regionalization at the Graduate Center for Humanities at Leipzig University Thesis title: "Die niederländische 'Staat'-Formierung des 17. Jahrhunderts - Geschichte des niederländischen Staats-Begriffs und Erklärungsmodell einer globalen Herrschaftsordnung während der Statthalterlosen Epoche (1650-1672)"
  • 04/2007 - 09/2010
    Master's program "European Cultural History" at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Thesis title: "Hannah Arendts Geschichtsschreibung - Denken ohne Geländer"
  • 10/2002 - 03/2007
    Bachelor's program "Cultural Studies" at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Thesis title: "Ursachen der politischen Wende in Isreal 1977"

Panel Memberships

  • since 08/2021
    Treasurer of the Society for Global History e.V. (formerly GÜSG)

Theories of global spatial orders from the 19th to the 21st century


History of geopolitics and political geography in the 20th century


Global reception and adaptation of geopolitical narratives in the 20th and 21st centuries


US foreign policy during the Cold War


Critical geopolitics and critical cartography

Political History of the Early Modern Period Considering Global Connections


Early Modern Business History


US Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period and the Cold War


History of Political Geography and Geopolitics

  • B.A.: Introduction to the Methodology of Academic Work in the Field of History

  • M.A.: Wilson, League of Nations, and the European Post-War Order

  • B.A.: Gepolitics in World War II

  • B.A.: German Geopolitics in the Interwar Period

  • M.A.: The Use of Methods for the Study of Globalisation

  • M.A.: Introduction to Methods for the Study of Globalisation

  • B.A.: The era of the Thirty Years' War – The "Golden Age" of the United Netherlands

  • M.A.: Exiles and religious persecution in the 16th and 17th centuries

  • M.A.: The Rise of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as a Political Actor (1602-1672)