Brigitte Studer

Brigitte Studer has been full professor of contemporary history at the University of Bern until 2020. She has been teaching at the Universities of Geneva and Zurich and at Washington University (Saint-Louis/USA). She has been a guest professor at the EHESS in Paris and at Strathclyde University in Glasgow and a visiting fellow at the University of Vienna and at London University. In her research she focuses on gender history and on a social historical approach of political history. She has widely published on the history of international communism and on the history of women’s suffrage. Her most recent publications include: Reisende der Weltrevolution. Eine Globalgeschichte der Kommunistischen Internationale (Berlin: Suhrkamp TW, 2021, 2nd edition