Monika Dommann

Principal Investigator

University of Zurich

Biography

Monika Dommann holds a Chair for Modern History at the University of Zurich. Previously she has taught at the University of Basel and has held research positions at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophthe (IKKM) in Weimar, the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington DC, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the McGill University in Montreal and the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) in Vienna. For further information see: Chair for Modern History at the University of Zurich.

Interests

Her main areas of research include the relations between the old and the new world, the history of material cultures, the history of intellectual properties, the history of logistics, the history of the market and its margins, the history of images and sound as well as methodology and theory of history.

Education

Dissertation Dr. phil. (Committee members: Prof. Dr. Jakob Tanner and Prof. Dr. David Gugerli, Grade: Summa cum laude), 2002

University of Zurich
Habilitation (Venia: General Modern History), 2012

University of Zurich