Dr. phil. Michèle Hofmann is the head of the Research Center “Historical and Comparative Childhood and Youth Studies”. 2018–2021 she worked as a senior researcher (postdoc) at the Institute of Education, University of Zurich. Before joining the University of Zurich, she was a senior researcher and lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). Michèle Hofmann holds a master’s degree in history and a Ph.D. in the history of education from the University of Bern. In recent years, she has been a guest lecturer at the University of Basel, the University of Vienna, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Fribourg, and the University of Education in Ludwigsburg as well as a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. Her academic interests include the medicalization of education, the history of (special needs) education in Switzerland, and the history of childhood.

List of publications Michèle Hofmann (PDF, 398 KB)

List of presentations Michèle Hofmann (PDF, 378 KB)