Welcome to the website of the Professorship of Swiss and Modern General History
The professorship stands for an expanded history of politics and society in terms of cultural history and the history of knowledge and attaches great importance to promoting dialogue between science and society. Research and teaching areas include Switzerland in the global Cold War, Switzerland's civil defence in a transnational perspective, the history of the underground (19th-21st century), vertical infrastructures and technologies, places and objects of modernity, the history of infectious diseases and epidemics, the history of knowledge and science, theories of space, the history of the senses and emotions as well as women's and gender history.
The exchange with other disciplines is central to the professorship. This is reflected in interdisciplinary work contexts such as participation in the international network Transnational Histories of Civil Defence as well as in interdisciplinary courses and publication projects.
