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MA Sophie Küsterling

Sophie Küsterling
PhD Student

Since 2022, Sophie Küsterling has been employed as a research and teaching assistant of Prof. Dr. Christina Späti at UniDistance Suisse. Since 2023, she has also been assisting Prof. Dr. Patrick Kury with the bachelor's module "Historiography". 

 

Sophie Küsterling studied Political Science and History at the University of Lucerne. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Lucerne, focusing on the repatriation and expulsion of mentally ill Germans from the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Zurich between 1914 and 1945.

Her research interests include eugenics and social Darwinism, Nazi "euthanasia," as well as Swiss migration and population policies in the 20th century. In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Christina Späti, she is also conducting research on racial anthropology in Switzerland before 1900.

Teaching

M03 Analysis: Scales of Historical Inquiry into the League of Nations Master of Arts in Historical Sciences
Analysis: Scales of Historical Inquiry into the League of Nations Master of Arts in Historical Sciences
M04 Historiographie Bachelor of Arts in Historical Sciences
M02 Information systems: Swiss victims of National Socialist persecution Master of Arts in Historical Sciences
Information systems: Swiss victims of National Socialist persecution Master of Arts in Historical Sciences

Functions at UniDistance Suisse

Faculty of History

  • PhD Student