Nicole Burgermeister

Nicole Burgermeister, born in 1979, is studying Sociology, History, Anthropology and Social Psychology in Zurich and Hannover. As a part of the research group ‘International Comparative Research on Traditions in Historical Consciousness’ (Vergleichende Tradierungsforschung) she is graduating from the University of Zurich following studies on historical consciousness in Switzerland. She is working on the subjects of anti-Semitism, racism, memory politics in Switzerland, sociological theories and gender and has been leading several tutorials on these subjects in Zurich and Hannover. In addition, she is involved in education projects dealing with anti-Semitism.

Furthermore Nicole Burgermeister was part of a group initiating and organizing a scientific colloquium with both Swiss and Armenian students in Zurich (2000) and Yerewan (2001) on the subject of „Beyond East and West – Sense and Nonsense of a Distinction.“

Since 1997 Nicole Burgermeister has been writing articles for newspapers and magazines in Switzerland and was editor of the student’s newspaper of the University of Zurich until 2003. Since 2004 she is co-editor as well as correspondent of the Austrian-Swiss-magazine „Context XXI“.

Having spent several months in South Africa, Guatemala and Macedonia she did voluntary work in NGO’s involving education and women’s empowerment.