Sandra Bott

Sandra Bott is an Assistant Professor with a Conditional Pre-Tenure (PTC) position in the Department of History at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Faculty of Arts, where she began her duties on August 1, 2022. She previously served as a substitute lecturer and researcher at the same institution.

Her research focuses on 20th-century international economic history, with a particular emphasis on Switzerland's extra-European relations. She is known for her work on Swiss-South African political and economic relations during the Cold War and apartheid era. Her broader interests include the history of the international gold market from the 19th century onward and the role of European neutral and non-aligned countries during the Cold War.

Sandra Bott is actively involved in the international academic community, having co-edited special issues for journals such as Itinera, Relations Internationales, and International History Review, as well as contributing to volumes published by Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge. She has organized international conferences in collaboration with Swiss universities and is a member of a research network on Cold War and decolonization history based at Utrecht University.

She held a visiting professorship at the University of Tampere and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2021–2022), where she began a project exploring the connections between European neutrality and non-communist Asia during decolonization and globalization.

Scientific Awards:

• Faculty of Letters Prize (for doctoral thesis)

Sandra Bott led two interdisciplinary research projects at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2017–2018), integrating history, education, sociology, and political science. She holds a Doctor of Letters from UNIL (2008). No information is available on grant funding or student supervision.

She is not described as part-time, retired, or deceased, and remains an active faculty member at UNIL.