Schürch, Isabelle
Tenure-track professorship in Economic and social history of the Middle Ages at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
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Research areas
• Historical human-animal studies and multispecies histories
• Social and economic history of the Middle Ages
• History of mediality and materiality in the Middle Ages
• Social and intellectual history of veterinary medicine
• Theories of practice and difference from a historical perspective
Curriculum vitae
- 2001-2008 Phil. hist. Studies at the University of Bern (History, English, Psychology)
- 2008-2010 Assistant to Simon Teuscher at the Chair of Late Medieval History (University of Zurich)
- 2010-2013 Doctoral candidate at NCCR Mediality, sub-project ‘Media of Order. Practices of Dealing with Legal Records and Change in Political Culture 1200-1500’ (project director Simon Teuscher)
- 2013 Guest researcher at the Centre for the Foundations of Modernity at LMU Munich, at the invitation of Arndt Brendecke
- 2014-2015 Research grant from the University of Zurich, postdoctoral project on ‘Animal Conquistadors? – New Approaches to the Horse in the New World’
- 2015-2017 Research assistant at the chair of Rudolf Schlögl, University of Konstanz (Reinhard Koselleck project ‘Socialisation among those present and its transformation. A social history and theory of the European modern era’)
- 2018-2020 Postdoctoral assistant at the Department of Medieval History, Institute of History, University of Bern
- 2020-2021 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sheffield, collaboration with Phil Withington (Early Modern History)
- 2023 Vicent Peset Llorca Fellow at the Instituto Interuniversitario López Piñero, University of Valencia
- 2021–2026 Postdoctoral assistant at the Department of Medieval History, Institute of History, University of Bern
- since February 2026 Tenure-track professorship in Economic and social history of the Middle Ages, University of Vienna