Kristina Krake is lecturer at Scandinavian Studies and European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests are within the field of Scandinavian political, social and cultural history, focusing on in particular the resilience and fragility of the Scandinavian democracies, their different conceptualization of democracy, and their responses to fascism and communism in the interwar period. The findings of these empirical studies have been published in the international journals Contemporary European History and the Scandinavian Journal of History, besides Danish national journals. March 2023 her book, Kanslergadeforliget 1933, has been published by Aarhus University Press. This book examines a socio-economic turning point in Danish history, offering new knowledge on how democracy has been linked to thoughts of social and economic reform policy. 

Kristina Krake has a background in Nordic Area Studies and History. She received a MA from the University of Copenhagen and obtained the PhD degree from the University of Southern Denmark. As a special distinction her dissertation was awarded with the Danish Labour History Prize 2018.

At the Faculty of Humanities, Kristina Krake teaches a wide range of subjects from Modern European History to Scandinavian literary and cultural history. Her classes are designed to encourage active participation and critical thinking, while providing the students with sound knowledge and advanced skills. Moreover she supervises students in writing their thesis on topics on Scandinavia, contested democracies, populism and the rise of new authoritarian regimes.

Kristina Krake is also engaged in dissemination projects. She has cooperated with the Danish National Archives on an online portal, making primary sources of the interwar period available to the public (for further information, see here: https://www.sa.dk/da/undervisningstilbud/videregaaende-uddannelser/kildepakker/forsvar-for-demokrati-i-mellemkrigstiden-kildepakke/).

Research interests: Scandinavian political, social and cultural history; the resilience and fragility of the European democracies; responses til militant activism and political violence, fascism; perceptions of modernity; conceptual history; comparative and transnational history; contemporary history with emphasis on the 20th century.