Dr (des) Christiane Hoth de Olano

Christiane Hoth de Olano defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Frontier Medicine: Practices, Knowledge and Science in Southern Chile, 1883–1939" in December 2024 at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany). From January to December 2025, she held a postdoctoral position with start-up funding at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern. In January and February 2026, she is engaged as a postdoctoral researcher on a project at UniDistance Switzerland.

Her research interests lie in the history of knowledge and the history of medicine. In addition, Christiane Hoth de Olano has published on exhibition cultures, photographic collections, and the history of Christian missions.

Her current research project focuses on the Colombian Caribbean from a longue durée environmental-historical perspective.

Methodologically, visual sources play a central role in all her work. She also brings several years of experience in the field of educational innovation. She is particularly interested in teaching and learning formats such as community engagement and global learning and is committed to further embedding these approaches within the historical disciplines, including in research contexts.