Susanna Burghartz
Education
1997 Habilitation: “Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Frühen Neuzeit (16.–18.Jh.). Eheschließung – Ehekonflikte – Ehescheidung am Beispiel von Basel” (on sexuality, marriage and lewdness in Early Modern Basel), University of Basel
1988 PhD: “Leib, Ehre und Gut. Delinquenz in Zürich Ende des 14. Jahrhunderts” (on Criminality in Late Medieval Zurich), University of Basel
1976 – 1983 Studies of history, philosophy and economics at the Universities of Freiburg/Brsg., Bonn and Basel
Employment
2017 – 2023 affiliated at the Institut for European Global Studies, University of Basel
2005 – 2023 Full Professor at the History Department of the University of Basel for Renaissance and Early Modern History
2000 – 2004 Research Professorship (Förderprofessur), Swiss National Foundation
1997 – 2000 Appointments at the Universities of Basel, Bern, Lucerne and Bielefeld.
1992 – 1997 SNSF project: “Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Frühen Neuzeit (16.-18.Jh.). Eheschließung – Ehekonflikte – Ehescheidung am Beispiel von Basel”
1983 – 1992 research assistant (Assistentin) Historischen Seminar der Universität Basel
Fellowships
2017 May Visiting Fellow at IAS, University of Warwick
2016 Easter term Beaufort Visiting Fellow, St. John’s College, Cambridge
Services
2020 – present member of the Swiss Research Council
2019 – present comitato scientifico, Istituto Svizzero a Roma
2009 – present Member of the comission: “Historisches Museum Basel”
2012 – 2020 member of the Swiss National Research Council (Div. IV programmes + SC careers)
2009 – 2016 Member of the Strategy Commission for Information Supply and Information Technologies, University of Basel
2009 – 2011 Director of the “Historisches Seminar”
2009 – 2012 Member of the Planning Commission of the University of Basel
2007 – 2009 Head of department “Historische Wissenschaften”
2001 – 2017 Member of the comission: “Museum der Kulturen”
2006 – 2010 Fellow im Beirat des Zentrums zur Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit (Renaissance Institut) der Johann Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
2008 – 2010 president of the commission and founding member of ‘infoclio.ch’. The Swiss portal for the historical sciences at the Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (SAGW)
2001 – 2009 Councillor of the “Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschichte” (Swiss Society of History)
1994 – 2002 Co-founder and Head of “Arbeitskreis Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit” (Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg/Stuttgart)
Fields of research
- Early Globalization
- History of Early Capitalism
- Consumption in 18th and early 19th centuries
- Digital History
- Material Culture
- Urban societies from 15th to early 19th centuries
- Women’s history and gender history
- Late Medieval and Early Modern History of Switzerland
- Criminal history