Historian
Gender based Violence, War Medecine, Masculinities, Microhistory
I am a historian specializing in Soviet and Russian history, with a strong focus on gender studies, violence, military medicine, and everyday social practices. I hold a PhD with summa cum laude from the University of Bern and EHESS (Paris), and I am currently wriing a book on the wartime experiences of Soviet military doctors in Afghanistan (1979–1989). My research interrogates gendered constructions of masculinity and power within diverse contexts, using microhistorical and pragmatic methodologies grounded in ego-documents, visual sources, and spatial analysis.
With over twenty years of experience spanning research, teaching, project coordination, and institutional expertise, I have led major projects including a socio-historical inquiry into sexual abuse at the Abbey of Saint-Maurice and the reorganization of the Docip archives in Geneva. I have taught at the Universities of Fribourg and Lausanne, coordinated doctoral programs in Gender Studies, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Oxford, Hamburg, and Basel. My work combines academic rigor with practical project management, multilingual translation (German–French), and international network-building.
Actively engaged in public discourse, I regularly contribute to media outlets (print, radio, TV) on topics of gender, power, and war — particularly in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A member of several scholarly societies (SSH, SSEG, ASEEES, SAGO) and an external reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (FNS) and Belgian FNRS, I bridge academic research and public engagement with an interdisciplinary, socially aware approach.