Dr Yvonne Schüpbach

Yvonne Schüpbach earned her PhD in History and a PhD diploma supplement in Gender Studies from the University of Bern in 2025. In her doctoral research from 2021 to 2025, funded by competitive seed funding from the University of Bern and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Doc.CH, she examined the gender and body history of women’s artistic gymnastics in Switzerland during the 20th century. With an SNF mobility grant, she conducted part of her PhD research in Sweden at Örebro University’s School of Health Sciences, within the Faculty of Medicine and Health. Before earning her doctorate, she served as a research assistant and co-author in the project “Hindelbank: The Castle, the Institution, the Village,” which critically examined the multifaceted history of poverty and welfare policies and the criminal justice system for women in a public exhibition and publication. Previously, Yvonne Schüpbach was a scientific archive intern at the Aargau State Archives in Aarau. 

Yvonne Schüpbach serves as co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed open-access gender<ed> thoughts working paper series hosted by the Georg-August University Göttingen and the Göttinger Centrum for Gender Studies (GCG), Germany.