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Prof. Dr. Gisela Hürlimann
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Prof. Dr. Gisela Hürlimann
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Gisela Hürlimann has held the Chair of History of Technology and Economy at the Institute of History at TU Dresden since September 1, 2021.
With a doctorate in the history of transport and innovation, a postdoctoral thesis on the history of taxation and currently working on a project on the flow of animal raw materials, Gisela Hürlimann takes a broad thematic approach that integrates the history of technology and science, economic and business history, cultural history and human-animal studies and is also interested in the history of technical universities.
Gisela Hürlimann grew up in Switzerland, studied in Zurich and Barcelona and taught at the Universities of Zurich, Basel, Fribourg (Switzerland), Bern and ETH Zurich between 2001 and 2021. At ETH Zurich, she was a senior assistant to the Chair of History of Technology until 2020.
Research stays have taken her to the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., the Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University and the Department for Sociology at UC San Diego.
In Germany, she began her academic career as a substitute professor in the history of technology at TU Berlin in 2017 and continued at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2019/20.
Prior to her appointment to the Chair of History of Technology and Economy, she represented the history of technology and science of technology at TU Dresden from April to August 2021.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
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2020 |
Habilitation at the University of Freiburg/Fribourg (Switzerland) |
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2006 |
Doctorate at the University of Zurich (General History) |
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2000 |
Licentiate at the University of Zurich (General History, Economic and Social History, Modern Spanish Literature) |
Professional / academic activities
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2021 |
April-August: Deputy Head of Chair for History of Technology and Science of Technology, TU Dresden |
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2019/20 |
Deputy Head of Chair for Cultural Studies of Technology (W3) at the Department of History, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); October 2020-March 2021 Research Associate and Lecturer |
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2008-2021 |
Lecturer/teaching assignments at the Universities of Zurich, Basel, Freiburg (Switzerland), ETH Zurich |
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2017 |
Deputy Head of Chair for History of Technology (W2) at the TU Berlin |
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2014-2020 |
Senior Assistant at the Chair for the History of Technology at ETH Zurich |
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2012-2015 |
Senior Assistant at the Research Center for Social and Economic History (FSW) at the University of Zurich |
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2011 |
Senior assistant at the Department of History Zurich, coordinator of the doctoral program "History" |
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2009/12 |
Scholarship holder of the Swiss National Science Foundation (habilitation project, University of Zurich) |
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2006-2009 |
Research Associate and Coordinator of Economic and Social History Online (cooperation between the Department of History and the Department of Economics, University of Zurich) |
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2003-2006 |
Scholarship holder of the Swiss National Science Foundation (PhD project, University of Zurich) |
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2002-2006 |
Research assistant and project manager at the Swiss Federal Archives, Bern |
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2000-2002 |
Research Associate and co-author of a research project on the history of psychiatry (University of Zurich) |
Honors and invitations
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2015/16 |
Invited Scholar at the Department of Sociology at the University of California (UC) San Diego |
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2015 |
Guest Professor at the Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University |
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2014/15 |
Fellow for Economic and Social History, German Historical Institute (DHI) Washington, D.C. |
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2004 |
Award of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Natural Sciences and Technology (DGGMNT, today: GWMT) for the research report on: Coercive measures in Zurich psychiatry, 1870 - 1970 (Marietta Meier, Gisela Hürlimann, Brigitta Bernet) |
Selected publications
Korinna Schönhärl, Gisela Hürlimann, Dorothea Rohde (eds.), Histories of Tax Evasion, Aviodance and Resistance, London 2022.
Anton F. Guhl, Gisela Hürlimann (eds.), Staged History. Mediality and Politics of European University Anniversaries from 1850 to the Present | Staging History. Anniversaries in European Institutions of Higher Learning from 1850 to the Present, Berlin/Boston 2022.
Worlds of Taxation. The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution since 1945, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 (ed. by Gisela Hürlimann, together with W. Elliott Brownlee and Eisaku Ide).
Auf den Spuren des Nutztiers / Sur les traces des animaux de rente. Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte - Revue d'histoire, vol. 2021/2 (ed. by Gisela Hürlimann, together with Alexandre Elsig, Sarah-Maria Schober, Isabelle Schürch).