Global History of Europe and Switzerland
Faculty of History
Post-doctoral researcher
Caroline Montebello is a postdoctoral researcher in the research group “Global History of Switzerland and Europe,” led by Prof. Bernhard Schär. She holds a double master's degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence, and she obtained in June 2025 a PhD in history from EHESS and the University of Geneva, where she was a doctoral assistant from 2018. She was also affiliated with the SNSF project “Rockefeller Fellows as Heralds of Globalization” (2018-2022), led by Ludovic Tournès (UNIGE), Thomas David (UNIL), and Davide Rodogno (IHEID). Her thesis, entitled “Transnational Constructions and Circulations of Geneva Anthropology: From Lake Geneva to the Black Sea (1845-1960)”, focuses on the transnational history of anthropology in Switzerland and the circulation of racial knowledge between Europe and Western Asia. She was awarded the Vallesiana research grant (2025) for writing an article on the history of racial knowledge in Valais.
Research areas
- History of physical and racial anthropology
- Political uses of anthropology and nation building
- History of the humanities
- Transnational and global history
Research groups
Teaching
Functions at UniDistance Suisse
Faculty of History
- Post-doctoral researcher
Global History of Europe and Switzerland
- Post-Doctoral researcher