Richard Julius Lange, M.A., M.A.

PhD candidate 

Contact Details:

E-Mail: rlange@hca.uni-heidelberg.de

Dissertation Project:

How Distrust in Europe Changed American Global Authority. EU-Criticism and Anti-Europeanism in United States Foreign Policy, 1989-2003 (Working Title)

Profile:

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 focussed 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). (CV)

Research Interests:

• Foreign Policy of the United States
• Transatlantic relations
• History and politics of European Integration
• International Relations in a historical perspective