Author Biography
Paola von Wyss-Giacosa works as a lecturer, researcher and guest curator at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich since 1997. From 2007 to 2010 she held a postdoctoral position at the University Research Priority Program Asia and Europe of the same institution. In 2014 she was a Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, and in 2015 she was Acting Junior Professor for the Chair of Entangled History at the same institution. She is the author of Religionsbilder der frühen Aufklärung. Bernard Picarts Bildtafeln für die “Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde” (Wabern, 2006) and the co-author and co-editor of a number of volumes. She is a member of the Research Center Gotha, of the research group Media and Religion, of the research group International Exchange on Media and Religion, and of the editorial board of CROMOHS – Cyber Review of Modern Historiography. Her research topics include media and religion, book illustration and travel literature of the early modern period. Her most recent exhibitions at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich were Gemachte Bilder. Derwische als Orient-Chiffre und Faszinosum (2017) and Kalamkari – Erzählstoff aus Indien (2016).
