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Allison Huetz is a doctoral researcher at the University of Geneva since 2015 within the FNS-funded Dispamonde project (Spatial Devices for Spectating the World), supervised by Prof. Jean-François Staszak and Dr. Estelle Sohier. She concurrently serves as a lecturer at the University of Lausanne, teaching master's courses on cinema censorship and bachelor's seminars in social sciences methodology.
Her academic foundation includes specialized training in art history and museology at the École du Louvre in Paris, providing critical frameworks for analyzing visual culture and institutional heritage.
Huetz's research interrogates spatial transformations in Belle Époque Geneva (1880-1920), particularly how the 1896 Swiss National Exhibition redefined the city as a cultural capital through performance spaces and spectacles. She examines the interplay between urban topography, public morality reforms, and emerging visual technologies, positioning Geneva within transnational networks of geographical imagination. Her interdisciplinary approach synthesizes cultural geography, visual anthropology, and urban history to decode how spatial devices shaped societal perceptions of modernity.
Her publications reveal a consistent focus on spectacle as epistemological framework, with recurring themes of geographical representation, emotion visualization, and urban spectacle economies. Methodologically, she bridges archival research with spatial analysis to trace how image production participated in constructing public morality and cosmopolitan identities.
Scientific recognition includes:
- SNSF mobility grant (2017) for research at Humboldt University's Institute for the History of Science
Huetz actively contributes to academic knowledge circulation through co-organizing international conferences (Systèmes de simulation du monde, 2016; What do images do in public space?, 2017) and heritage collaborations like the Casino-Théâtre de Genève study. Her teaching demonstrates commitment to training next-generation scholars in visual analysis and qualitative methods.
As core member of the Dispamonde research collective, she engages with dynamic interdisciplinary teams across Geneva, Zurich, and Berlin, fostering innovative approaches to historical spatial practices through regular workshops and collaborative publications.
