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David  Gugerli david.gugerli@history.gess.ethz.ch ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zürich Auf der Mauer 2 CH-8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND phone: +41 (0)1 632 4249 fax: +41 (0)1 632 1481

Biographical Sketch

David Gugerli has been full Professor for the History of Technology at the Institute for History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich since 2001. He was born in 1961 and studied history, the history of literature, and literary criticism at the University of Zurich. After earning a PhD in 1987, he was a guest researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, visiting professor at the Colegio de México in Mexico City, visiting scholar at Stanford University in Palo Alto, visiting fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Sciences in Vienna, and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1993/94). In 1995, he earned a venia legendi (Habilitation) at the University of Zurich. After various publications pertaining to social and cultural history, he published a study in 1996 on the discursive shaping of electrification in Switzerland. This study was awarded both the Rudolf Kellerman Prize for the History of Technology and the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences Prize in 1997. Recently, he has published, together with Daniel Speich, a book on the Topographies of a Nation. Politics, Cartographic Order, and Landscape in the 19th Century, and, together with Barbara Orland, an edited book on The Visual Production of the Normal.