Béatrice Ziegler

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Béatrice Ziegler (* 1951 ) is a Swiss historian and history professor emeritus at the University of Zurich . Her main research interests are gender history, migration history, eugenics and welfare, body history and historical culture. Her research focus is in the first half of the 20th century.

Life

Béatrice Ziegler studied history, social and economic history and Portuguese at the University of Zurich and did her doctorate with Rudolf von Albertini on emigration from Switzerland to Sao Paulo. Your dissertation with the title Swiss instead of slaves. She defended Swiss emigrants in the coffee plantations of Sao Paulo 1852–1866 in 1981. From 1992 to 1998 she was senior assistant at the Universities of Bern and Zurich; In 1998 she completed her habilitation at the University of Zurich, where she worked as a private lecturer from 1999–2009 and since 2009 as adjunct professor. From 2000 to 2007 she was also a lecturer in history as part of the secondary level I teacher training at the Aargau University of Education .

From 2004 to 2016 Ziegler was Professor of History and History Didactics and Head of the Center for Political Education and History Didactics at the Institute for Research and Development at the FHNW University of Education in Aarau . From 2007 to 2016 Ziegler was co-director of the Center for Democracy Aarau. From June 2016 to May 2017 she was interim head of the Institute for Educational Sciences at the University of Basel and the PH FHNW.

Ziegler is married to a high school teacher and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

Book publications

  • Between memory and processing. Compulsory welfare measures for minors in Switzerland in the 20th century. 2018.
  • Antigypsyism in Switzerland and Europe. History, continuities and reflections. 2014.
  • Shoah and school. Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century. 2013.
  • Interventions in life. Welfare and eugenics in two Swiss cities (1920–1950). 2012.
  • Switzerland and the Shoah. From controversies to new questions. 2012.
  • Work - body - public. Bernese and Biel women between discourse and everyday life (1919–1945). 2007.
  • As a merchant in Pernambuco. A travel report with pictures from Brazil by Hermann Kummler (1888–1891). 2001.
  • The common gender - La généralité du genre. 2000.
  • Crises and stabilization. Switzerland in the interwar period. 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Béatrice Ziegler, Prof. Dr. History Seminar of the University of Zurich, accessed on May 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Publications from projects and courses at the University of Zurich. (PDF; 170 KB) History Seminar of the University of Zurich, accessed on May 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ CV of Prof. Dr. Béatrice Ziegler. (PDF; 449 KB) History Seminar of the University of Zurich, accessed on May 25, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Rosa: the journal for gender research ; Book 8, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Béatrice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziegler-Witschi, Béatrice (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1951