Mountains and forests

Nils Widmer, M.A.
Junior Research Fellow

Nils Widmer is writing his dissertation on skiing from a social and gender-historical perspective. From 2015 to 2021, he studied History and German Philology at the University of Basel. He worked as a research assistant at Swiss Sports History, as an assistant at the Department of History at the University of Basel, as a freelancer at Radio SRF and in educational projects.

Project

Elsa Roth (1906-2000) - Biographical approaches to class, gender and nation in Swiss skiing in the 20th century