Bradley Reynolds (PhD) is a senior researcher at the University of Turku, a board member of Historians without Borders in Finland, and a board member as well as treasurer of the Finnish Oral History Network. He is a researcher of oral history, international history, and memory studies. Reynolds primarily focus on European security politics in the 1990s and post-Cold War transitions, looking at changes and continuities in policy making cultures, geo-political imaginaries, and the role of civil society in foreign policy making. Reynolds’ reviews and original research have been published with The Oral History Review, Cold War History, European Security, The Kennan Institute, Helsingin Sanomat, and H-Diplo, among others.
Bradley considers the nexus between memory and history necessary to understand how states utilize the past to legitimize their power and policies. It is the role of scholars, NGOs, and memory practitioners to illuminate these legitimizing strategies so that citizens are aware of the processes of power in which they are embedded – History is not given, but shaped, disproportionately by those with power.
Bradley has been a member of HWB Finland’s board since 2023.
