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Newest Publication (Open Access)

Schüpbach, Yvonne: Negotiating the Space between East and West: Sport and Gender Politics in Swiss Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in the Cold War Era, in: The International Journal of the History of Sport 41 (8), 08.2024, S. 760-778.

In preparation

Schüpbach, Yvonne: Fremdplatzierung von „bedürftigen Kindern“. Die Stadtberner Gotthelfstiftung 1887-1918 in der mixed economy of welfare der Schweiz in: Pflegefamilien im Spannungsfeld zwischen „Öffentlichkeit“ und „Privatheit“ aus historischer und gegenwärtiger Perspektive. Publikation im NFP 76 „Fürsorge und Zwang“ im Projekt Amacker. Publikation im Chronos Verlag.

Schüpbach, Yvonne; Steuerwald, Noemi: Intervention in die Schweizer Sportgeschichte, in: traverse 1/2026, Wer Macht Geschichte? Intersektionale Perspektiven, hsrg. von Matthieu Gillabert, Anja Rathmann-Lutz, Isabelle Schürch, Rike Szill. 

Schüpbach, Yvonne: Violent methods of the East? Problematizing the externalization of gender- based violence in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in Switzerland during the Cold War, in: How the Cold War Transformed International Sport, hrsg. Von Julien Beaufils, Sylvain Dufraisse, Claire Nicolas. Publikation im De Gruyter Verlag, (RERIS Studies in International Sport Relations).

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2025 Associated Researcher at the Institute of History, University of Bern
03.2025 Research Associate, Institute of History, University of Bern
2025 Doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern
01.2021-02.2025 PhD student at the Institute of History, Graduate School Gender Studies, University of Bern (SNSF Doc.CH doctoral project)
08.2022-01.2023 Visiting scholar at the University of Örebro in Sweden (SNSF mobility grant)
2019-2021 Project collaborator and co-author in the project ‘Hindelbank the castle, the institution, the village’
2020 Academic archive intern at the State Archives of Aargau in Aarau
2017-2020 Master’s degree in History and Gender Studies at the University of Bern
2017-2018 Student assistant (Institute of German Linguistics and Literature and Jeremias Gotthelf Research Centre)
2014-2017 Bachelor’s degree in History and German Linguistics and Literature

Main Areas of Research

  • Body history
  • Women's and gender history
  • Cultural and social history
  • Sport and gender
  • History of the women's/feminist movements
  • History of poverty and the welfare state
  • History of ageing and health
  • History of the Cold War

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Grants and awards

2025 Mobility Grant from the European Workshops on International Studies Mobility Fund
2022 Early-Career Researchers Presentation Award, 14th conference of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport, Nord University (Norway)
08.2022-01.2023 Mobility grant, Swiss National Science Foundation
03.2022-02.2025 Doc.CH scholarship, Swiss National Science Foundation
2021 Start-up funding of the Institute of History at the University of Bern

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