Dr. Oliver Zimmer

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsModern and Current History,Other Areas of History
KeywordsImperial Germany, Nationalism, national identity, religious culture, urban history

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dieter LangewiescheAbteilung für Neuere Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Jörn LeonhardFreiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2004

Program(s)

2003Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2009Oliver Zimmer: Nationalism in Europe 1918-1945. In: John Breuilly, Handbook of European Nationalism. Oxford University Press, 2009.
2006Oliver Zimmer: Circumscribing Community in Constructions of Swiss Nationhood. In: Mark Hewitson & Timothy Baycroft, What is a Nation? Europe 1789 - 1914. Oxford University Press, 2006. 100-119
2006Oliver Zimmer: Nation und Religion. Von der Imagination des Nationalen zur Verarbeitung von Nationalisierungsprozessen.. In: Historische Zeitschrift, 2006, 617-656
2005Oliver Zimmer & Len Scales (eds.): Power and the Nation in European History. Cambridge University Press, 2005
2004Oliver Zimmer: A Unique Fusion of the Natural and the Man-Made': The trajectory of Swiss nationalism, 1933-1939'. In: Journal of Contemporary History, 2004, 5-24
2003Oliver Zimmer: A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761-1891. Cambridge University Press, 2003
2003Oliver Zimmer: Boundary Mechanisms and Symbolic Resources: Towards a Process-Oriented Approach to National Identity. In: Nations and Nationalism, 2003, 173-193
2003Oliver Zimmer: Nationalism in Europe, 1890-1940. Macmillan/Palgrave, 2003