• History of urban societies during the renaissance and the early modern period (15^th to 17^th centuries)
• Early European expansion
• Women’s history and the history of gender
• The History of Switzerland
• Material culture history

• Materialized Identities: Objects – Affects – Effects – Milieus in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750
  www.materializedidentities.com
• ProDoc "Sites of Mediation: Europäische Verflechtungsgeschichte 1350-1650"
  A joint interdisciplinary graduate program of the universities of Basel (Prof. S. Burghartz, Prof. L. Burkart) and Bern (Prof. Chr. Göttler). The SNSF-funded graduate addresses the interactions between local and supra-regional processes in the formative phase of a globalizing Europe.
  www.sitesofmediation.ch

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.

• Urfehdebücher der Stadt Basel – digitale Edition, Basel/Graz 2017
• Sites of Mediation Connected Histories of Places, Processes, and Objects in Europe and Beyond, 1450-1650, ed. By Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, Christine Göttler, Leiden 2016
• Competing Logics of Public Order: Matrimony and the Fight against Illicit Sexuality in Germany and Switzerland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, in: Marriage in Europe 1400-1800, ed. By Silvana Seidel Menchi, Toronto 2016, 176-200
• Die «durchgehende» Reformation – Basler Mandate von 1529 bis 1780, in Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde, 116, 2016, 89-111
• Jahrrechnungen der Stadt Basel 1535-1610 — digital, Basel/Graz 2015
• Covered Women? Veiling in Early Modern Europe, in: History Workshop Journal, 80/1 (2015), 1-32.
• Vom offenen Bündnissystem zur selbstbewussten Eidgenossenschaft. Das 14. und 15. Jahrhundert, in: Die Geschichte der Schweiz, hg. von Georg Kreis, Basel 2014, 136-183.

All Publications

Editorial Boards

• Since 2004: Member of the editorial board of "Historische Anthropologie"
• Since 2006: Member of the scientific committee of "Zeitsprünge. Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit"
• Since 1994: Member of the scientific committee of "traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte"

University of Basel

• Member of the IVIT conference
• Member of the commission at the Museum der Kulturen (Museum of Cultures)
• Member of the commission at the Historisches Museum (Historical Museum)
• HS 2009-FS 2011: Director of the Department of History
• HS 2009-FS 2012: Member of the strategy panel (Planungskommission) of the University of Basel
• 2007-2009: Head of the departement "Historische Wissenschaften" (historical sciences)
• 2005-2009: Member of the Senate Committee (‘Regenz’)
  

Professional Associations

• Since 2012: Member of the National Research Council of the SNSF
• 2006-2010: Fellow of the Advisory Committee of the Center for the Research of the Early Modern Period (Renaissance Institute) at Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main
• 2008-2010: Chairwoman of the commission of “infoclio.ch” , Affiliated Company of the Swiss Academy of the Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW)
• 2001-2009: „Gesellschaftsrätin“ of the Swiss Historical Society (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschichte (SGG)
• Co-founder of the international work group on women’s and gender history of the early modern period ("Arbeitskreis Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit"), Co-leadership 1994-2002
  

Memberships

• Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschichte (SGG)
• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (SGWSG)
• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung/Gender Studies (SGFGF)
• Historische und Antiquarische Gesellschaft zu Basel
• Verein Feministische Wissenschaft

Fellowships

• Beauford Visiting Scholar, St. John’s College, Cambridge in 2016
• Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, May 2017

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:

• Early globalization, entangled history and European expansion 15th to 18th centuries
• Premodern European history in a global perspective
• (premodern) Swiss History
• Premodern Urban Societies
• Travel narratives and identity construction
• Material culture
• History of fashion and dress
• History of crime

You are also encouraged to read the information on on-going research in the research area Global History of Europe.