Nada Boskovska

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Nada Boskovska Leimgruber (also Nada Boškovska , Macedonian Нада Босковска ; * 1959 in Bitola , Socialist Republic of Macedonia , Yugoslavia ) is a Swiss historian and professor for Eastern European history at the University of Zurich .

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Boskovska studied general history at the University of Zurich from 1979 to 1984. Her focus was on Eastern Europe , Slavic Studies , economic and social history . Until 1985 she deepened her studies in Moscow and Leningrad . In 1987, she received a Bachelor's degree with the work forms of peasant resistance in Russia in the 17th century .

From 1989 to 1990 Boskovska was a visiting scholar at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and worked on her dissertation, The World of Russian Women in the 17th Century . She completed her doctorate in 1996 at the University of Zurich. The habilitation ( postdoctoral qualification ) followed in 2001.

In 2003 Boskovska received a professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) at the Institute for History at the University of Bern . In the same year she was appointed to the chair for Eastern European History at the Institute for History at the University of Zurich.

Boskovska speaks Bulgarian , German, English, French, Macedonian , Russian and Serbian .

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As an author
  • The Russian woman in the 17th century . Böhlau, Cologne 1998.
  • Yugoslav Macedonia 1918–1941. A border region between repression and integration . Vienna 2009.
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