Dr Jonathan Krause
Hertford Diplomacy Centre Director
Jonathan studied history at the University of California, Riverside from 2002 to 2006 before moving to the United Kingdom where he completed an MA (2007) and PhD (2010) in the War Studies Department, King’s College London. He taught in the History, War Studies, and Defence Studies Departments at King’s College London before coming to Oxford as Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project ‘Rebellion and Mobilisation in French and German Colonies, 1914–1918’, which ran from 2015 to 2018. He is a Lecturer in Modern European History at Hertford and a Research Associate with the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, helping to build an oral history archive for the Royal Army Medical Corps. Since 2023 he has been programme director for the Hertford Diplomacy Centre workshop series, which brings together civil servants, military, industry and NGOs to work collaboratively on matters of peace, diplomacy and sustainability.