Urban grassroot movements of sustainability, sufficiency, commons
Artisanal food, culinary regionalism, changing images of farming
Visual dimensions, images and imaginaries of cities, policy discourses on ‘urbanity’
Popular natural science around 1900
History of science and popular knowledge
Neopatriotism, nationalist popular cultures, ‘Swissness’
Popular Alpine symbols (Edelweiss)
Education
2017–2018: Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher Education Didactics, University of Zurich
2009–2015: PhD studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich; PhD thesis: “Petite Science”. Non-university natural research in Switzerland around 1900. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Hengartner and Prof. Dr. Philipp Sarasin. Further information
2009–2015: Collegiate of the graduate school of the “Centre of the History of Knowledge” at the ETH and the University of Zurich. Further information
2007: Licentiate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich; .Master’s thesis: Strolling in ArCAADia: Computer generated visualizations as images of “Urbanity” (published in 2009 as Vol. 19 of the Zürcher Beiträge zur Alltagskultur)
2001–2007: Studies in Ethnology, History and Philosophy at the University of Zurich
1999–2001: Foundation studies in History, Ethnology and Philosophy at the University of Basel
Work Experience
From 6/2015: Senior Teaching and Research Assistant of the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich
1/2009–5/2015: Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department for Popular Culture Studies at The University of Zurich
1/2008–10/2008: Scientific research work for the exhibition project “Mythos Edelweiss” at the Botanical Gardens, Zürich and Genf
Memberships
From 2017: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftungsrat der Arnold-Niederer-Stiftung, Ferden (VS) Further information
From 2015: Member of the Editorial Committee of “Schweizerischen Archivs für Volkskunde” Further information
2009–2015: Member of the Editorial Board of the “Schweizer Volkskunde” – Members’ journal of the Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (SGV)
