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Department of Philosophy

Josette Baer Hill

Josette Baer Hill, Prof. Dr.

  • Titularprofessorin / adjunct professor
Address
Philosophisches Seminar, UZH, Zürichbergstrasse 43, CH-8044 Zürich

Research

I have specialized in political theory, particularly the contract theories (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Rawls), 20th century Western political thinkers (Arendt, Berlin, Aron, Paglia) and Slavic thinkers of the 19 and 20 centuries (Danilevskii, Havel, Masaryk, Dubček, Clementis, Misirkov, Stambolov). My main research subject area is political thought (Nationalism, Liberalism, Socialism) in Slavic Central Europe, with a focus on the 19th century Czech lands and Slovakia and 20th century Czechoslovakia. I have also published on Belarusian, Russian, Bulgarian and Macedonian politics and intellectual history. Currently, I focus on Slovak anti-Communist dissent in the second half of the 20th century.

 

Curriculum vitae

I am a Swiss citizen, born in 1966. In 1996, I graduated from Zurich University (UZH) with a PhD dissertation entitled Politik als praktizierte Sittlichkeit. Zum Demokratiebegriff bei Thomas G. Masaryk und Václav Havel (Politics as Pragmatic Morality. The Notion of Democracy in the Political Thought of Thomas G. Masaryk and Václav Havel). From 1988 to 1993, I studied Slavonic philology (Russian, Czech and Bulgarian), political science with a focus on political philosophy and international relations and the history of Eastern Europe. In my post-doc years from 1996 to 2001, I specialized in the 19th century intellectual history of the Slavic-speaking countries of Central and Eastern Europe. My research projects, which were a preparation for my habilitation thesis, were supported by various stipends, which resulted in research stays in Budapest (Hungary), Bratislava (Slovakia) and Leeds (UK). In 2001, I received a three-year stipend from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and moved to Seattle, USA, where I taught and researched at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington UW. The philosophical faculty of UZH approved my habilitation thesis Slavic Thinkers. Intellectual History and Political Thought in Central Europe and the Balkans, 19th Century in the summer of 2006. As fellow of the Open Society Institute (OSI), I taught from 2004 to 2006 in Minsk (Belarus) and St. Petersburg (Russia). Since the autumn term of 2006 I have taught at UZH. The Faculty of Philosophy of UZH appointed me adjunct professor (Titularprofessor) in June 2012. I have assessed scientific projects for the Czech and Slovak National Science Foundations and the DFG Bonn. On 23 September 2019, the scientific board of the Department of History at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (HÚ SAV, Bratislava) elected me member of the international editorial board of the Historical Journal (Historický časopis). 

Reviews and Peer Reviews

COMENIUS Journal of Euro-American Civilization; New Eastern Europe; Slavic Review; Perspectives on Politics; Central Europe; Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Balkan Academic News Book Review; The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest; Canadian Slavonic Papers Revue Canadienne des Slavistes; Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; Nations and Nationalism.

Teaching

Vorlesungsverzeichnis

V-Nr Course Start / End Date Lecturers Room
3837
06ST160-504a
from 18 Dec 2024
to 18 Dec 2024
18.12.: 12:15-13:45 Josette Baer Hill see details
2729
06ST160-507a
from 20 Sep 2024
to 20 Dec 2024
as announced or arranged Josette Baer Hill see details
2783
06ST160-510a
from 20 Sep 2024
to 20 Dec 2024
as announced or arranged Josette Baer Hill see details

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