Dr. Martin Kristoffer Hamre is a historian of modern European history in transnational and global perspectives based at the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge. His research interests include the history of European fascism and the far right, the history of internationalism and Europeanization, and the history of German reunification. He has published among others in Contemporary European History, the Journal of Contemporary History and Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. As part of the research project “The Europeanisation of Universities: Transforming Knowledge Institutions from Within, c. 1985-2010,” led by Johan Östling, Hamre will be at LUCK for three months in 2024–2025, studying the transformation of the Humboldt University of Berlin between 1988 and 1993 in the context of European integration. 

Prior to joining LUCK, Hamre worked as a research associate, lecturer and interim coordinator of the MA program Global History in history at the Free University of Berlin. In April 2024, he completed the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History at the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on “Notions and Activities of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s”, supervised by Margrit Pernau and Sebastian Conrad. Hamre is a graduate of the international MA program in European History, obtaining a joint degree with study semesters at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Vienna, and King’s College London. He holds a BA in History and Philosophy/Ethics from the Humboldt University of Berlin (including an exchange at the University of Bergen).

Hamre worked as a project assistant at the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation and completed an internship at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC. During his doctoral studies, Hamre participated in the Younger Fellow Visiting Program at C-REX, Center for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo, and was awarded a post-graduate scholarship at the German Historical Institute London.

Welcome, Martin!