Timothy Schürmann

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 timothy.schuermann@unifr.ch

Research focus

- History of Student Organisations
- Social History of Universities
- Transnational History of Switzerland
- Cold War
- Internationalism

PhD Student SNSF
Department of Contemporary History

BQC 11 bu. 1.216.39
Av. de Beauregard 11
1700 Fribourg
BQC 11, 1.216.39

Biography

Bachelor in History (& German Linguistics and Literature Studies) at the University of Zurich (2020); Master in History (& German Linguistics and Literature Studies) at the University of Zurich (2023) with a master thesis on «Letters of an Excluded. Border-Crossing Post of a Former Swiss Citizen as a Survival Strategy in the Nazi Dictatorship».

Since february 2023 SNSF PhD student and research assistant in contemporary history at the University of Fribourg, with a thesis on «The Swiss Student Union between Cold War agenda and the new student condition» (working title), in the SNSF-GAČR project «From Student Internationalism to Erasmus». The thesis will be a social history of the student organisations of Switzerland in the second part of the 20th century from a transnational perspective.