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Louis Widmer

Louis Widmer, MA

  • Research Assistant
Room number
AFL-G-260

Research Interests

  • History and anthropology of knowledge
  • Rural history and popular notions of rurality
  • Cultural analysis of spatial development and landscape history
  • Linking historical and ethnographic approaches
  • Visual and material culture

Portrait

Education

  • Since 05/2025: member of the interuniversity doctoral program History of Knowledge at ETH and University of Zurich
  • Since 04/2025: PhD student at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich
  • 02/2021–07/2024: MA in History of the Contemporary World (Major) and Popular Culture Studies (Minor), University of Zurich
  • 09/2017–01/2021: BA in History (Major) and Popular Culture Studies (Minor), University of Zurich

Work Experience

  • Since 04/2025: Research Assistant at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies – Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich (Prof. Dr. Bernhard Tschofen and Prof. Dr. Moritz Ege)
  • 11/2021–03/2025: Auxiliary Research Assistant at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies – Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich (Prof. Dr. Bernhard Tschofen)
  • 09/2017–04/2025: Caregiver in a nursing home

Memberships

  • Empirische Kulturwissenschaft Schweiz (EKWS)
  • Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschichte (SGG)
  • Swiss Rural History Society (SRHS)

Publications

Please refer to the German page.