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:

To date, Susanna Burghartz has taught at the universities of Basel, Berne, Lucerne, and Bielefeld. In 2016, she was a Beauford Visiting Scholar at St. John’s College in Cambridge.

Since 2005, Susanna Burghartz has been full professor of the history of the renaissance and the early modern period at the Department of History of Basel University. Since March 2017, she holds a 50%-professorship at the Institute for European Global Studies and simultaneously continues her work at the Department of History in part-time.

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