Fields of Expertise
Biography
https://www.unige.ch/lettres/istge/corps-enseignant/hco/kott/
https://unige.academia.edu/SandrineKott
Sandrine Kott is a full professor of Modern European History at the University of Geneva since 2004. She has studied History in Paris, the University of Bielefeld, (FRG), Columbia University (New-York). She has previously held a tenured assistant professor position at the University of Poitiers (France) and has been a laureate of the Institut Universitaire de France.
She has been appointed visiting professor at New York University (half time) for a period of 5 years starting September 1st 2020.
Her main fields of expertise are the history of social welfare and labor in France and Germany since the nineteenth century and labor (and power) relations in those countries of real socialism, in particular in the German Democratic Republic.
In Geneva she has developed the transnational and global dimensions of each of her fields of expertise by taking advantage of the archives and resources of international organizations.
She has published around 120 articles in French, German and American journals and collective volumes; 7 monographs and edited several collective volumes and journal special issues
Among her last publications
Monographs
Histoire de la société allemande au XXè siècle. La RDA (1949-1989), Paris, La découverte, Repère, 2011.
Day to Day Communism. State Enterprises in East German Society, Michigan, MUP, 2014.
Sozialstaat und Gesellschaft. Das deutsche Kaiserreich in Europa, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Kritische Studien, 2014.
Gouverner le monde. Une autre histoire de la guerre froide, Paris, Le Seuil, 2021.
Edited volumes
(with Joëlle Droux), Globalizing social rights. The ILO and beyond, London, Palgrave, 2013.
(with Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Peter Romijn & Olivier Wieviorka), Seeking Peace in the Wake of War. Europe, 1943-1947, Amsterdam University Press, 2015.
(with Kiran Patel), Nazism across Borders. The Social Policies of the Third Reich and their Global Appeal, Oxford University Press, 2018.
(with Michel Christian and Ondrej Matejka), Planning in Cold War Europe. Competition, Cooperation, circulation (1950s-1970s), Oldenburg, De Gruyter, 2018.