Oliver Zimmer
Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford
Sanderson Fellow, University College Oxford
PhD
Research Topics
European History in the long Nineteenth Century
Education and Academic Employment
| 2014 | Professor, University of Oxford |
| 2005-2014 | Associate Professor, University of Oxford |
| 1999 | Assistant Professor, University of Durham, UK |
| 1999 | PhD in Modern History, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 1994 | MPhil in Modern History, University of Zurich |
Research Fields of Interest
- Nationalism
- Religion
- Urban History
- Liberalism and Citizenship
- The Experience of Time and Technology
Selected Publications
- Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation-State (Oxford University Press, 2013).
- ‘Beneath the “culture war”: Corpus Christi processions and mutual accommodation in the Second German Empire’ . The Journal of Modern History 82 (2010) , 288-334
- Ed. with Len Scales, Power and the Nation in European History (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
- Nationalism in Europe 1890 – 1940 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003)
- A contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1760 – 1891 (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Honors
| 2004-2005 & 2010 |
Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation |
| 2015-2017 | Major Research Fellowship, The Leverhulme Trust |
