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Monique Ligtenberg is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, specializing in the Chair of History of the Modern World. Her recent work focuses on the intersections between global history, historical knowledge, science, and the history of natural history collections and their collectors, particularly in the context of Southeast Asia. She defended her dissertation in 2023, which examined historical entanglements in the fields of medicine across German-speaking Europe and the Dutch East Indies. Currently, she is engaged in significant research projects, including Project Coordinator for 'Engineering Empires Margins: Global Techno-Colonialism' and curating 'Colonial Nature: Legacies of Empire' related to the collections of the Swiss Natural History. Ligtenberg has received accolades such as the Walter Markov Prize from the European Network in Universal Global History, the Henry E. Sigerist Prize from the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences, and the Wilhelm Deist Award for her contributions to Military History. She is also active in various historical societies and has a keen interest in guiding students through their academic projects in the realms of Colonial Global History and Gender Studies.
ETH Zurich • Zürich, Switzerland
Lecturer in the Chair of History of the Modern World, focusing on global history and the history of science.
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