Catrina Klee earned her bachelor’s degree in Popular Cultures and Film Studies at the University of Zurich. Her bachelor’s thesis focused on the contemporary significance of mobility. For her master’s program, she transferred to the University of Lucerne, where she studied Global Society and Global Politics with a focus on history and ethnology. Her master’s thesis examined women entrepreneurs and globalization in Africa. Since 2023, she has been a member of the Institute Cultures of the Alps and is conducting research as an independent doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Lucerne on the history of tourism, infrastructure, and architecture in fascist South Tyrol.
The theme of mobility – understood as social, geographic, and technology-based mobility – serves as a common thread running through her research projects to date. At the heart of her dissertation project is the never-realized Funivie Alte Dolomiti cable car project, through which she examines the interplay of tourism, infrastructure, architecture, and fascist politics.
Her primary occupation is as a sales manager in energy consulting. Her work in the energy sector offers exciting overlaps with her historical research, particularly with regard to the significance of infrastructure, technological development, and social change.
