Christina Späti is a full professor in the History Faculty at UniDistance Suisse and Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Freiburg. She completed her doctorate and habilitation at the University of Freiburg and in between was a visiting scholar at the Technical University of Berlin, McGill University and Harvard University. From 2014 to 2026, she she served as program director for the bachelor’s degree program in history, and since 2021, she has been dean of the Faculty of History at UniDistance Suisse.
In addition to working on her dissertation on the relationship of the Swiss left to the Middle East conflict and her habilitation on language politics in Switzerland and Canada, she has worked on various research projects on Swiss victims of National Socialist persecution; gender, antisemitism and Orientalism in Switzerland; language and identity politics, reparations to Swiss victims of National Socialism, as well as the history of the women in the KZ-Aussenlager Velten.
Christina Späti has served as a reviewer for various foundations, research funds, and scholarly journals, including the Swiss National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Berta Karlik-Programm der Universität Wien; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung; L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft; Language and Society; Neue politische Literatur; ReOrient; Le mouvement social; Revue transatlantique d’études suisses; Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte; traverse; Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Bildungswissenschaften; European Contemporary History; Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz; Revue d’histoire de la Shoah. She is also a member of various expert and steering groups, such as the Unabhängige Expertenkommission (Beirat Provenienzforschung) der Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich (seit 2025), editing committee Seismo-Reihe / collection «Sozialer Zusammenhalt und kultureller Pluralismus / «Cohésion sociale et pluralisme culturel» (seit 2025), Jury für das Wettbewerbsverfahren «Schweizer Memorial für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus – Ein Erinnerungsort in der Stadt Bern» (seit 2024), der Evaluationskommission Sciex, Swiss National Science Foundation (2024/25), Projektbegleitgruppe (Beirat) für das Projekt «Moderne Zuger Kantonsgeschichte» (seit 2024), Wissenschaftlicher Beirat des Forschungsprojekts «Die Wirkung der Wiedergutmachung. Eine deutsch-jüdische Erfahrungsgeschichte», Touro University Berlin (2024-2025) as well as Evaluationskommission DOC.CH, Swiss National Science Foundation (2023-2024).
