Prof. em. Dr. Susanna Burghartz
Professor of Early Modern History
Institute for European Global Studies,
University of Basel
Riehenstrasse 154
CH-4058 Basel
Office 02.004
Tel: +41 (0)61 207 46 48
Twitter: @BurghartzCH
Education:
Susanna Burghartz studied history, philosophy, economics and auxiliary sciences of history at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Bonn, and Basel. In 1988, she received her doctoral degree for a thesis on crime in the Late Middle Ages. A study on marriage and sexuality in Basel during the early modern period qualified her as a professor in 1997.
Professional Career:
Susanna Burghartz has taught at the Universities of Basel, Bern, Lucerne and Bielefeld. In 2016, she was a Beaufort Visiting Scholar at St. John's College, Cambridge. From March 2017 to July 2023, she held a 50% bridge professorship at the Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel and continued her professorship at the Department of History in a half-time position. She retired at the end of July 2023.
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Regarding the supervision of Master Theses in European Global Studies, I am happy to consider enquiries from students with a historical perspective. I am particularly interested in the following fields and topics:
You are also encouraged to read the information on on-going research in the research area Global History of Europe.