Very Short CV

Oliver Zimmer (PhD LSE, FRHistS)

PERSONAL DETAILS 

  • Citizenship: Swiss and British

  • Languages: English (near-native); German (native); French (excellent reading and good speaking skills); Italian (excellent reading and decent speaking skills); Dutch (basic)

  • Email: Oliver.zimmer@crema-research.ch

EDUCATION

  • 1999: PhD in History, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK.

  • 1993: Lic Phil in History (main), Sociology and Political Theory, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

EMPLOYMENT

  • Since 2022: Research Director at the Centre for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA); Senior Fellow at IWP (Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik)

  • 2014-2021: Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford; Sanderson Fellow in Modern History, University College Oxford

  • 2005-2014: Associate Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford; Sanderson Fellow in Modern History, University College Oxford

  • 2004-2005: Associate Professor in Modern History, University of Durham

  • 1999–2004: Assistant Professor in Modern History, University of Durham

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

  • Since 2022: Lehrbeautragter at the University of St. Gallen (HSG)

  • 2016: Visiting Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo

  • 2015/16: Honorary Fellow, Historisches Kolleg, Munich, Germany

  • 2014:       Professeur Invité, Sciences-Po, Paris

  • 2013:              Visiting Professor at the universities of Tokyo, Waseda, and Kyoto

  • 2012: Visiting Professor, University of Uppsala

PUBLICATIONS

Several books published with prestigious English and German publishers (including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury Publishing, and Aufbau-Verlag).

Articles published in leading academic journals (including Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of Contemporary History, Central European History).

Author at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) and regular contributor to other newspapers and magazines.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Over twenty years of teaching undergraduate and graduate students.

SUPERVISION

Over twenty years of supervising undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students.

PROJECT EVALUATION

School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA

Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, USA

Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Germany

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds, Switzerland

MANUSCRIPT EVALUATION

Publishers: Berg Publishers; Blackwell Publishers; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; University of Michigan Press; Palgrave Macmillan; Princeton University Press; Bloomsbury; Princeton University Press. 

Academic Journals: American Historical Review; European History Quarterly; English Historical Review; Journal of Modern History; Nations and Nationalism; Nationalism and Ethnic Politics; Ethnic and Racial Studies

PRIVATE CONSULTING, PUBLIC SPEAKING, TEACHING (SEMINARS AND SMALL-GROUP TUTORIALS)

Consulting for private companies and public bodies

Various presentations and talks at private and corporate events

Tutorials on historical and contemporary themes for individuals and groups of 2 - 5 participants

Seminars on historical and contemporary topics to groups of 6 - 12 participants (or larger)

Portrait Photocredit: ©Jeremy Souteyrat