Dr Celestine Kunkeler is a postdoctoral fellow, researching transnational far-right networks. Their research project concerns radical Right networks in interwar Europe, focusing on the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. They also work on historical imaginaries of degeneration and sexual and gendered deviance, and contemporary transphobia and anti-gender politics.
Dr Kunkeler received their PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2019, with a thesis on myth-making practices and respectability in Swedish and Dutch fascism in the 1930s. This research was published in 2021 by Bloomsbury Academic as a monograph, under the title Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40.
Academic interests
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Counter-revolution & anti-Bolshevism
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Anti-gender politics & transphobia
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Paramilitarism & strikebreaking
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Fascism & the Right
Background
Dr Kunkeler received their PhD in history at Cambridge University in 2019.
Awards
Prince Consort & Thirlwall Prize, for best History PhD thesis by a candidate under 30, 2019.
Selected publications
‘Counter-Revolutionary Strikebreaking in Interwar Europe, 1918-1929: The Role of Norway, Christopher Fougner, and Samfundshjelpen’, Scandinavian Journal of History (2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2023.2221245
‘Finland and Military Volunteers in the Swedish Fascist Imaginary, 1809–1944’, The Historical Journal (2023), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X23000183
‘The Swedish Brigade: From National Romantic Heroes to European Counter-Revolutionaries?’, European History Quarterly, 53:1 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914221140021
‘Conceptions and Practices of International Fascism in Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands, 1930-40’, with Martin Kristoffer Hamre, Journal of Contemporary History, (2022)
‘A Dietsland Empire? The international and transnational dimensions of Dutch fascism and the NSB, 1922-42’, Locus: revista de história, 28:2 (2022), pp. 124-145, http://dx.doi.org/10.34019/2594-8296.2022.v28.37259
Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40, Bloomsbury Academic: London, 2021
‘Narratives of Decline in the Dutch National Socialist Movement, 1931-1945’, The Historical Journal, 61:1 (2018), pp. 205-225, doi:10.1017/S00188246X17000188
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