Sacha Zala

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Sacha Zala (born November 24, 1968 in Poschiavo ; legal domicile in Brusio ) is a Swiss historian and director of the Research Center for Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland (Dodis) and Professor of Swiss and Modern General History at the University of Bern .

Life

Sacha Zala grew up in Italian-speaking Poschiavo in the canton of Grisons and attended schools in Campocologno and Poschiavo. After attending grammar school at Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz , he studied history, political science and constitutional law at the University of Bern and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA).

From 1997 to 2000 he was a research assistant in the project Internationalization Strategies as an Instrument of Swiss Foreign Policy of the National Research Program Fundamentals and Possibilities of Swiss Foreign Policy (NRP 42). In 1999 he completed his dissertation (history under the scissors of political censorship) . At the University of Bern, Zala was first research assistant to Judit Garamvölgyi and Marina Cattaruzza from 1998 to 2002 and then senior assistant for modern and contemporary history. Since 1998, Zala has held various teaching positions at the universities of Bern, Zurich, Basel, Lucerne, Neuchâtel and Geneva.

Since 2000 he has been a member of the research group on Swiss Diplomatic Documents (Dodis), of which he became director in 2008.

For many years he was involved in the association Pro Grigioni Italiano (PGI), which advocates the Italian language and the culture of the Italian-speaking Grisons, from 1999 as vice-president and from 2005 to 2013 as central president. In 2019 he received the Bündner Kulturpreis.

Since 2000, Zala has held various positions in the Swiss Society for History (SGG), namely the presidium since 2014.

Further activities:

  • International Committee of Editors of Diplomatic Documents: Elected Secretary General of the newly established international organization of editors of diplomatic documents
  • Project management of Metagrid , a SAGW project for online networking of humanities resources

His main research interests are the history of international relations and foreign policy in Switzerland, historiographical issues, the history of history, European nationalisms, minorities and border regions.

Zala is often asked for information on historical topics by the mass media in several languages, all of which he speaks fluently: in addition to his mother tongue Italian, German, Swiss German , French and English.

Works (selection)

  • Tamed history. Official historiography and its malaise with the history of neutrality. 1945–1961 (Dossier of the Swiss Federal Archives, 7), Bern 1998.
  • History under the scissors of political censorship. Official file collections in international comparison. Munich 2001 (Diss., Manuscript: Bern 1999).
  • with Madeleine Herren: Foreign Policy Network. International organizations and congresses as instruments of Swiss foreign policy. 1914–1950 (= Swiss contributions to international history, 5). Zurich 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Powder vapor under filing dust. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 9, 2001, accessed on August 7, 2017 (non-fiction review).
  2. ↑ Sacha Zala: “Time to make room for the new generation”. In: Southeastern Switzerland . Friday, October 25, 2013 (interview).
  3. ^ Pro Grigioni Italiano: Laudation per il presidente Dr. Sacha Zala. Retrieved August 24, 2017 (Italian).
  4. ^ Bündner Kulturpreis - historian Sacha Zala honored. In: srf.ch. February 7, 2019, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ About us. Metagrid, accessed August 10, 2017 .
  6. ^ Sacha Zala in Google News .
personal data
SURNAME Zala, Sacha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Poschiavo