Norbert Götz

Norbert Götz is a historian and political scientist working at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden. He has a background in Germany, where he has been affiliated to Humboldt-University Berlin and the University of Greifswald, and he has also been working at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His wide-ranging interests revolve around international relations, civil society, political culture, and populism. Lately, his focus has been on humanitarianism and issues of moral economy. He has worked on Germany, the Scandinavian countries and the Baltic Sea region, Ireland, the UK, the US, as well as on international affairs in general, in particular the United Nations.

For his dissertation "Ungleiche Geschwister: Die Konstruktion von nationalsozialistischer Volksgemeinschaft und schwedischem Volksheim" (out of print – Unequal siblings: The construction of the national socialist people's community and the Swedish people's home) Norbert Götz has been awarded the Hans-Rosenberg-Memorial Prize of the Heinrich-August-and-Dörte-Winkler-Foundation in the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation and the 15th Annual Scholarship Award of the Swedish Womens Educational Association International (SWEA).

Twitter: @Prof_Goetz