I am a Researcher and Teaching Fellow, specialized in Cultural Transfer Studies, Transnational History and International Education. After teaching and researching at the universities of Geneva, Tunis, Lausanne, Fribourg and Vienna, I am currently a Guest Researcher at the University of Lausanne (CWP).
I taught for almost ten years as a primary and then as a secondary school teacher. In the aftermath of these exciting years, I studied contemporary history and philosophy at the universities of Fribourg (Switzerland) and Bamberg. I gained then a PhD in German Studies at the University of Paris 8 and a PhD in History at the University of Fribourg. I am now developing an habilitation project entitled « Educators of modernity and the notion of class-passing. An entangled socio-history of European meritocracy (1750-1950) ».
Among many publications, my book Aux heures suisses de l’école républicaine won the Louis Cros Prize 2015, awarded by the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Institut de France-Académie française).
Personal information
- Swiss, born on 31.10.1976 in Estavayer-le-Lac (Fribourg)
- Mail: fontaine.transferts@gmail.com
- ORCID: 0000-0001-6654-3911
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Education
- from 2018 • Habilitation (in preparation)
- 2016 • Habilitation as Associate Professor (qualification aux fonctions de maître de conférences) • France
- 2013 • PhD in History • University of Fribourg • Switzerland • summa cum laude
- 2013 • PhD in German Studies • École normale supérieure-Ulm (admin. inscription Paris 8) • France • with unanimous jury congratulations
- 2005 • M.A. in Philosophy • University of Fribourg & Bamberg • Switzerland & Germany
- 1997 • Primary School Teacher Diploma • École normale cantonale of Fribourg • Switzerland
Employment history
2020 • Guest Reseacher • Project « Educators of modernity and the notion of class-passing. An entangled socio-history of European meritocracy (1750-1850) » • University of Lausanne (IEP-CWP)
2018-2019 • Universitätsassistent Postdoc • Allgemeine Erziehungswissenschaft • Institut für Bildungswissenschaft • University of Vienna
2018 Visiting Scholar • Swiss National Science Foundation Project • Institut für Bildungswissenschaft • University of Vienna
2017-2018 • Senior Lecturer • Transnational and Entangled History of Education • University of Fribourg
2016-2018 • Senior Researcher • Swiss National Science Foundation Project « Sortition in Switzerland » • Centre Walras Pareto – Institute for Political, Historical and International Studies • University of Lausanne
2014 • Visiting Scholar • Swiss National Science Foundation Project « Swiss Pedagogy in Maghreb » • Research Institute on Contemporary Maghreb • Tunis
2013-2016 • Assistant Professor • Transnational History of Education • University of Geneva
2011-2013 • University Assistant • History of Education • University of Geneva
2009-2011 • Young Visiting Scholar • Swiss National Science Foundation Project • UMR 8547 « Cultural Transfer » • École nomale supérieure-Ulm Paris
2003-2009 • Secondary School Teacher (part-time) • CO de la Broye
1997-2000 • Primary School Teacher (full-time) • Aumont-Nuvilly-Vesin
