Postdoctoral Researcher
Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Contact
ckr@hum.ku.dk
Webpage
https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/charlie-krautwald
Bio
Charlie Krautwald is a postdoctoral researcher in modern political and cultural history at the Saxo Institute, at the University of Copenhagen. He is currently employed on two research projects, Street-fighting Women. Gender, body, and violence on the Far Right in Interwar Scandinavia, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation (2024-2026), and Code and Conspiracy. Antisemitism in Denmark After 1945 (2024-2028). Krautwald has contributed to the development of a Nordic research field on Interwar Period (1919-1939) political culture, street politics, and activism with ground-breaking work on the dynamics of militant anti-fascist and far-right activism. The key findings of his thesis (2021) were the documentation of the integral role posed by different conceptions of public urban space in 1930’s political culture and the uncovering of the interplay between street politics and the parliamentarian ambitions of e.g., far-right youth movements. Krautwald’s research interests also include the history of fascism and the contemporary Far Right, on which he frequently contributes with expert insights in the media. He was employed as a researcher at the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University, Sweden (2022-2023) and has been teaching history courses at the University of Copenhagen since 2020.
Research interests
- Interwar political culture
- Fascism
- Far-right movements, ideology, and networks
- Antifascism
- Gender history