Doctoral candidate Richard Julius Lange, M.A., M.A.
Research associate at the DFG Research Training Group Authority and Trust in the USA (GKAT)
Contact
E-Mail: rlange@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
Tel: +49 (0) 62 21 / 54 - 3361
Historisches Seminar der Universität Heidelberg
Grabengasse 3-5
D-69117 Heidelberg
Room: 044A
Office hours: upon consultation
Dissertation project
How Distrust in Europe Changed American Global Authority. EU-Criticism and Anti-Europeanism in post-Cold War United States Foreign Policy (working title)
About Richard Lange
Richard Lange received his B.A. in History and Political Science from Heidelberg University. During his undergraduate studies he spent a year at Durham University, UK, where he studied International Relations and Classics. In 2021 he graduated with distinction from Heidelberg University with a M.A. in Modern and Contemporary History. His M.A. thesis focused on German-British relations against the backdrop of early European Integration. In 2022, he obtained a second M.A. in International Relations from Leiden University, where he specialized in European Union Studies. From 2017 to 2022 he received the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst scholarship. Since November 2022 he is a Ph.D. student at the Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at Heidelberg University and since October 2023 he is a Doctoral Researcher at the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg „Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics” at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA).
Research interests
- Foreign policy of the United States
- Transatlantic relations
- European integration
- International relations in a historical perspective
Publications
- Still Paradise and Power? The United States and Europe, in: HCA Graduate Blog, 2024.
- Joe Biden’s Legacy: The Ambivalence of Bipartisanship and Friendship in Politics, in: HCA Graduate Blog, 2025.
- Forum: Zukunft des Kirchentags – Kirchentag der Zukunft, in: Pastoraltheologie 114,9, 2025 (mit Anne Gideon und Kristin Jahn).
Conferences and Presentations
- How Distrust in Europe Changed American Global Authority - Anti-Europeanism and EU-criticism in United States Foreign Policy after the Cold War, Annual Conference of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA), Heidelberg, June 2, 2024.
- Can Euroscepticism help to understand Anti-Europeanism in the United States? Humanities and International Relations Graduate Conference, Leiden University, De Hague, June 14, 2024.
- All the Same but Different? American Anti-Europeanism, European Anti-Americanism, and Euroscepticism, International PhD Seminar, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg, June 26, 2024.
- Conceptualizing American Criticisms of Europe. Anti-Europeanism, European anti-Americanism, and Euroscepticism, Global Dome. International Ph.D. Workshop in History, University of Note Dame, London, August 6 2024.
- US-Wahl 2024 – Die Bedeutung für die Sicherheitsstrategie Deutschlands, BwConsulting, online, November 6, 2024.
- Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus. Europakritik und Anti-Europäismus in den Vereinigten Staaten, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, AG-Außenpolitik, online, November 28, 2024.
- Die USA nach den Wahlen: Wie geht es weiter? Ulmer Volkshochschule, Ulm, December 2, 2024.
- More than foreign policy? The domestic functions of anti-Europeanism and Euro-criticism, HCA Spring Academy, Heidelberg, March 25, 2025.
- A Secret Agreement with Jacques Delors? Anti-Europeanism in U.S. Presidential Elections 1992-2004, Annual Conference of the Historians of the German Association for American Studies, Tutzing, May 10, 2025.
- Das SPD Friedensmanifest, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, AG-Außenpolitik, online, July 23, 2025