As part of the International History Forum, the International History Department at the Graduate Institute is pleased to invite you to a public talk given by Professor Tobias Straumann (University of Zurich).
In line with the Graduate Institute's COVID-19 regulations, this event will take place online.
About the Speaker
Professor Tobias Straumann is a private lecturer at the History Department of the University of Zurich and teaches at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Basel. He is concerned with the history of European monetary policy in the 20th century, the world economic crisis of the 1930s and Swiss economic and corporate history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Professor Straumann studied history and sociology at the University of Bielefeld, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the University of Zurich. In 1995, he published his dissertation on the origins of industrial research in 19th century Basel chemistry and worked as a journalist for five years. In 2000-2001 he was Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, 2012-2013 Adjunct Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Since 2008 he has been a private lecturer at the University of Zurich, his postdoctoral thesis was published in 2010: "Fixed Ideas of Money: Small States and Exchange Rate Regimes in Twentieth-Century Europe", Studies in Macroeconomic History, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Dr Straumann has worked in the fields of Swiss economic history and European financial and monetary history. He has published articles in the Journal of Contemporary History, the European Review of Economic History, and the Historische Zeitschrift.