Claire Louise Blaser
started working as a doctoral student with Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné at the Chair for the History of the Modern World at ETH Zurich in October 2019. During her Master's in Religion in Global Politics at SOAS (University of London), she focused on politics of culture and cultural history of South Asia. Before that, she studied South Asian languages and cultures at the University of Lausanne. Her doctoral project is funded by a doc.ch fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation. (more)
Dissertation (working title): A global biography: Frieda Hauswirth Das (1886-1974) between Switzerland, California, and India (more)
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Leander Diener
Leander Diener promoviert mit einer historiographischen Arbeit zum Hirnforscher Walter Rudolf Hess bei Flurin Condrau und Michael Hagner. (mehr)
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Peter-Tim Fritz
Peter-Tim Fritz promoviert mit der Arbeit "Vernetztes Deutschland. Die Figur der Vernetzung im populären Wissen der BRD" bei Prof. Dr. Svenja Goltermann. (mehr)
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Jonas Gloor
is a PhD-Student and Scientific Assistant at the Chair of Modern History at the University of Zürich (Prof. Dr. Monika Dommann). He studied General History and Political Science at the University of Zürich. He completed his master`s degree with a thesis on the media knowledge of video activists in the 70`s and 80`s. Since 2019 he has been working on a doctoral thesis on the history of knowledge production about sexual offenders in the 20th century. (more)
Dissertation project (working title): A History of the production of knowledge about sexual offenders. Actors, systems, discourse and media (more)
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Stephan Graf
is a doctoral student at the Chair for Science Studies at ETH Zürich pursuing his SNSF-Doc.CH-​funded dissertation project since March 2020. After completing his undergraduate studies in psychology, cultural anthropology and sociology at University of Basel and University of Paris 8 Vincennes-​Saint-Denis in 2014, he continued his graduate studies at ETH where he received a master's degree in History and Philosophy of Knowledge in 2018. (more)
Dissertation project (working title): The Photographic Process as Object of Research: Technoscience between Photographic Industry and University, 1928–1979 (more)
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Lukas Held
Lukas Held promoviert bei Prof. Dr. Philipp Sarasin im Rahmen des Cold War Knowledge Project. (mehr)
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Samuel Hunziker
is a Ph.D. student at Prof. Dr. Roy Wagner's chair for History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences at ETH Zurich. He completed his master in History and Philosophy of Knowledge at ETH Zurich in October 2019 with a thesis on finite models of computation. Before that he studied philosophy and history at University of Zurich. (more)
Dissertation (working title): Typing Errors: The Coarticulation of Types, Errors, and Programming Languages between the 1970s and 1990s (more)
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Judith Kälin
studierte ab 2008 Geschichte, Religionswissenschaft und Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Zürich sowie der Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo. Daneben arbeitete sie von 2009 bis 2013 im Staatsarchiv Zürich im Bereich Aktenerschliessung und schrieb für den Elfenbeintürmer, dem Magazin der Zürcher Geschichsstudierenden. Seit 2014 ist sie bei der Fokus AG für Wissen und Organisation tätig. Ihr Studium schloss sie im Sommer 2015 mit einer Masterarbeit zum Thema Korrektionelle Anstaltsversorgung im Kanton Zug (1880 - 1945) bei Frau Prof. Svenja Goltermann ab. (mehr)
Dissertationsprojekt (Arbeitstitel): Die Organisation sozialer Kontrolle. Mikrogeschichtliche Betrachtungen zum Umgang mit sozialer Devianz im Spannungsfeld von Recht, Medizin und Verwaltung (Zug, 19./20. Jh.). (Betreut durch Prof. Svenja Goltermann)
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Manuel Kaiser
Manuel Kaiser promoviert bei Prof. Dr. Philipp Sarasin mit einer Arbeit zur Produktion von Wetter- und Klimawissen und dessen Zirkulation in Publikumsmedien und Populärkultur während des Kalten Krieges. (mehr)
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Patrick Kilian
Patrick Kilian promoviert mit einer Arbeit zur Körpergeschichte der Raumfahrt in den populären Medien des Kalten Krieges bei Prof. Dr. Philipp Sarasin. (mehr)
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Ursina Klauser
is a doctoral student at the History Department, University of Zurich. From 2007 to 2014 she studied History, Musicology and Biology in Zurich, Basel and Berlin. She graduated with a master thesis on the biologist Paul Kammerer. (more)
PhD project: "Difficult" Children. Examination, Therapy and Research in Outpatient Child Psychiatry, 1950–1980. (more)
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Philipp Krauer
has been a doctoral student (SNF) at the chair History of the Modern World since July 2017. He holds a Master in History and Philosophy of Knowledge from ETH Zurich and a Bachelor in General History and in German Language and Literature. His research interests include (Post-)Colonial Studies, Global and Transnational History, New Imperial History and History of Knowledge. (more)
PhD-Thesis: Swiss 'Tools of Empire'. A transnational history of mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies, 1814–1914. (more)
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Monique Ligtenberg
is a PhD student at the Chair for History of the Modern World at ETH Zurich since October 2019. She holds a Master's degree in History and Philosophy of Knowledge from ETH where she graduated with a thesis on Swiss entanglements in colonial knowledge production in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). Her research interests include (post-)colonial studies, the history of knowledge, transnational history, and the history of modern Southeast Asia. (more)
Working title: Medicine, Masculinities, and Colonial Warfare: German-speaking Physicians and Trans-imperial Knowledge Production in the Dutch East Indies (c. 1873-1914) (more)
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Manuel Merkofer
is a scientific assistant and PhD student working on his dissertation project with Prof. Flurin Condrau at the Chair of the History of Medicine at the University of Zurich. During his master's program in »History and Philosophy of Knowledge« at the ETH Zurich, he focused on topics on the history of psychology and medicine. Previously, he studied in Zurich and Padua to obtain his bachelor's degree in psychology. (more)
Dissertation project (working title): »How Medicine Innovates: The Case of Microneurosurgery in the Second Half of the 20th Century (1950–1980)« (more)
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Lukas Rathjen
is a doctoral student at the Chair for Literature- and Cultural Studies at ETH Zu¨rich since March 2021. He finished his master's degree in History and Philosophy of Knowledge in 2020. Before that he studied History, Archeology and Interdisciplinary Anthropology in Hamburg and Freiburg. His project on the intellectual communication culture in postwar Germany is supervised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher and Prof. Dr. Philipp Felsch (HU Berlin) and funded by a doc.ch fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Dissertation project (working titel): Conversational Knowledge: Rhetorical Humanism in the Early Federal Republic (1947–1968) (more)
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Niki Rhyner
is an academic assistant at the Chair for Science Studies (ETH Zurich). In her PhD project she examines the history of knowledge of ethnography in the context of European integration. In 2019, Niki received a Master's degree in History and Philosophy of Knowledge from ETH Zurich. Her Master's thesis dealt with the history of knowledge of Swiss »Volkskunde« (1960–1980). From 2017 to 2020, she worked at the Chair for Science Studies where she co-​developed the hybrid publication series Ĉther and cache. In 2016, she earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Basel where she studied history and philosophy. (more)
Dissertation project (working title): Dorf, Heimat, Industrie, 1950–1985: The Europe of the »Applied« Humanities and Social Sciences (more)
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Sarah Scheidmantel
has been working on her doctorate at the Chair for the History of Medicine at the University of Zurich since October 2019. She studied media and cultural studies, history and philosophy of science in Weimar, Berlin and Cambridge, UK. She completed her master's degree with a thesis on the development of the vibromassager between 1880 and 1920 in Germany and Great Britain. (more)
Dissertation (working titel): Healthy and beautiful from head to toe. Women between healing and optimisation using vibromassage around 1900 (more)
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Larissa Schüller
is a PhD-student supervised by Prof. Dr. Monika Dommann and Prof. Dr. Noah Bubenhofer. She is a research assistant at Noah Bubenhofer's chair of Linguistics at the German Department of the University of Zurich. She studied German Literature and Linguistics and General History at the University of Zurich and completed her master's degree with a thesis on letters by women of the Zurich bourgeoisie at the end of the 18th century. Since 2019, she has been working on her dissertation project. (more)
PhD project (working title): Work in communications = Female work
Technology, gender and communicative practices in Swiss Telephone Exchange, 1881-1980 (more)
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Josephine Selander
is a PhD-student at the Chair for History of the Modern World at the ETH in Zürich. Following her University Diploma in Performing Arts and Media at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, she completed her M.A. in History of Ideas at the Stockholm University. Her master thesis addressed how knowledge production of alternative spirituality was constructed and disseminated by the Swedish press, between 1899 and 1926. Her Ph.D. project explores how Buddhist practices were described and circulated in different media, formulated as useful in psychological contexts during the 20th century. (more)
Dissertation project (working title): Making mindfulness: Narrating, Mediating, Medicalizing transcultural emotion-knowledge 1920 – 2000 (more)
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Jonas Stähelin
is a PhD student at the Chair for Literature and Cultural Studies at the ETH Zurich. After completing his bachelor's degree in history and sociology at the University of Basel, he enrolled in the master's program History and Philosophy of Knowledge at the ETH Zurich, which he completed in 2019 with a thesis on the scientification of spiritualism in the 19th century. His doctoral project is funded by the SNF. (more)
Dissertation project (working title): From the supernatural to the supersensuous (and back): Occult and Sceintific Epistemologies of the Invisible in the 19th Century. (more)
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Nadine Zberg
earned her master's degree in cultural analysis and history at University of Zurich (UZH) in 2014. From 2014-2017 she worked as a cultural mediator and project assistant in various cultural institutions. Her PhD project which she took up in August 2017 at the Chair of Philipp Sarasin is funded by the Forschungskredit of UZH. She has been a member of the doctoral program of the ZGW since 2018. (more)
PhD thesis on The reinvention of the city. Outlines of the urban in the Swiss alternative movement in the 1970s and 1980s. (more)
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Alumni
Carlos Acosta 2015-2016
Alexander Alon 2011-2018
Malte Bachem 2011-2015
Manuel Bamert 2016-2020
Simon Bundi 2013-2015
Boris Buzek 2013–2020
Eneia Dragomir 2012-2020
Manuel Dür 2013-2020
Maurice Erb 2008-2011
Onur Erdur 2010-2015
Kijan Espahangizi 2008-2010
David Eugster 2010-2015
Lucas Federer 2016–2020
Alban Frei (ETH) 2012-2017
Felix Frey 2014-2018
Pascal Germann 2008-2015
Judith Große 2012-2018
Ruben Hackler 2012–2021
Lea Haller 2008-2012
Lucia Herrmann 2013-2020
Franziska Hupfer 2013-2017
Yvonne Ilg 2013-2019
Niklaus Ingold 2008-2013
Anna Joss 2008-2013
Ulrich Koch 2008-2012
Marina Lienhard 2013–2021
Hannes Mangold 2013-2016
Sibylle Marti 2009-2013
Anna Mohr 2012-2017
Joanna Nowotny 2014-2017
Jonathan Pärli 2014-2016
Lea Pfäffli 2012-2019
Svenja Matusall 2009-2012
Jonas Schädler 2017–2021
Tobias Scheidegger (UZH) 2008-2015
Martin Schüle 2008-2010
Magdaléna Stárková 2012-2013
Ernst-Christian Steinecke 2011-2014
Romila Storjohann 2013-2018
Ariane Tanner 2009-2010
Ariane Totzke 2013–2020
Martin Viehhauser 2008-2012
Gianna Virginia Weber 2012-2020
Koni Weber 2008-2013
Martina Wernli 2008-2010
Bettina Zangerl 2015-2018
Daniela Zetti 2009-2013
