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PD Dr. Stephan Scheuzger
RESEARCH PROFILE
RESEARCH FOCI
- Global history, 19th – 21st century
- History of social policies
- History of small states
- History of punishment
- Dealing with past injustice
- History of Marxism und the left
- Ethnicity, autochthonous groups
- History of migration
- Public History
Regional foci
- Europe: Great Britain, Germany, Liechtenstein
- Americas: USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, Chile, Argentina
- Africa: South Africa, Guinea
- South Asia: India
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- The World of Social Policies in a Very Small State: Welfare in Liechtenstein since the Late 19th Century
- The Global History of the Prison in the „Long“ 19th Century
Recent publications
- Historische Kleinstaatenforschung: Ein Plädoyer, in: 1602. Wissenschaftsmagazin des Liechtenstein-Instituts, der Privaten Universität im Fürstentum Liechtenstein und der Universität Liechtenstein, 5, 2024, pp. 44–47.
Current courses
Lecture
Ausschaffen – Deportationen als Mittel der Migrations- und Bevölkerungskontrolle
[Techniques and Technologies of Deportation – Removal as a Means of Migration and Population Control]
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Spring term 2025
Portrait of course: Research seminar: “Vom Hängen, Auspeitschen, Deportieren und Einsperren: Globalhistorische Forschungspraxis am Beispiel der Geschichte des Strafens im langen 19. Jahrhundert“, Universität Bern, Frühlingssemester 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX7hXk3-Yr8
| Education | |
| 2015 | Habilitation, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, Venia legendi for Modern History (Neue und Neueste Geschichte) |
| 2003 | Doctoral degree in Modern History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 1995 | Licentiate, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern, Switzerland, Major: Modern History, First Minor: Philosophy, Second Minor: German Literature |
| Career | |
| 2025– | Head of Research, Department of History, Liechtenstein Institute |
| since 2019 | Research Fellow, Department of History, Liechtenstein Institute |
| since 2019 | Associated Researcher at the Center for Global Studies of the University of Bern |
| 2018–2019 | Associate Professor (Dozentur) for the History of Migration ad interim (job sharing), Institute of History, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 2017 | Guest Scholar at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard University, USA |
| since 2015 | Adjunct Associate Professor (Privatdozent), Institute of History, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2013–2018 | Research Professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation, Institute of History, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 2013 | Guest Scholar, Research Project “Narratives of Terror and Disappearance” of the European Research Council, Institute of Literature, University of Constance, Germany |
| 2011–2012 | Fellow at the School of History, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany |
| 2009 | Substitute of the Chair for Extra-European History, University of Münster, Germany |
| 2004–2013 | Research Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Institute of History, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2002–2004 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Geschichte der ETH Zürich |
| 1997–1998 | Scholarship holder of the Swiss National Science Foundation, Universidad Iberoamericana UIA, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1996–1997 | Guest Lecturer at the Department of History, Universidad Iberoamericana, UIA, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1996–1997 |
Scholarship holder of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Faculty of Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1991–2004 | Language teacher in adult education (schools of the Migros-Genossenschaftsbund, Berne and Biel, Switzerland; Business Education Center, Bern) |
| Other Activities | |
| since 2023 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Liechtenstein National Museum |
| since 2016 | Member of the Board of the Bernese Forum of Criminological Sciences |
| Other | |
| Languages | German (mother tongue), English, French, Spanish, Portuguese (passive), Italian (passive) |
