Dr. Sabrina Sigel

Biography

Sabrina Sigel is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the Department of History, Economics, and Society at the University of Geneva. She is currently conducting her doctoral research in economic history, focusing on the environmental costs associated with coffee-driven development in São Paulo, Brazil, between the 1850s and 1930s. Her research interests intersect economic and environmental history, economic ecological thought, and transatlantic trade. In 2017, she earned a Master’s degree in International Economic History from the University of Geneva, where she wrote a dissertation on the transatlantic financial ties of Hamburg merchants from 1884 to 1905. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as a historian at the Swiss bank Lombard Odier and co-authored a book titled 'Lombard Odier – 222 Years of Innovation' in 2018. During the Spring 2023 semester, she served as a visiting PhD student at the University of São Paulo in Brazil and will be a Fellow in the History Department at Harvard University in Fall 2024.

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