Alexandra Binnenkade
Alexandra Binnenkade (* 1969 ) is a Swiss historian .
Life
Alexandra Binnenkade studied general history of the Middle Ages and modern times, art studies and international law at the University of Basel and completed her studies with a historical-anthropological licentiate thesis on the strike of the Gotthard tunnel workers in 1875 .
In 2007 she received her doctorate from the University of Basel . For her doctoral thesis on everyday life in the Jewish-Christian village of Lengnau in the 19th century, she received the 2008 Faculty of Humanities Prize. In 2010/11 she worked as a post-doc scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation on a case study on the ways in which violence is conveyed in history lessons. She is a lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Basel.
Fonts (selection)
- Storm time. The Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Aargau between 1933 and 1948, Baden 1999
- AboutLifeTelling. Life history interviews in history lessons , didactic booklet, Zurich 2007
- Contact zones. Jewish-Christian everyday life in Lengnau, Cologne 2009 (dissertation)
- Alexandra Binnenkade, Aram Mattioli (ed.): Central Switzerland in the early federal state (1848-1874). Approaches to social history (Clio Lucernensis 6), Zurich 1999.
Web links
- Alexandra Binnenkade on the website of the History Department of the University of Basel
- Short biography and reviews of works by Alexandra Binnenkade at perlentaucher.de
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| SURNAME | Binnenkade, Alexandra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |