Victoria Abrahamyan is a postdoctoral researcher at Maison de l’histoire of the University of Geneva since 2024. She holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Neuchâtel. Her dissertation has received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Society of Armenian Studies at Harvard in 2024. She was a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics (January–June 2025). Her research interests include global and imperial history, mass death and genocide, and history of science and medicine. She is investigating the sub-project The Birth of War Forensics (1914–1939).
Taline Garibian is a senior researcher at the Maison de l’Histoire and the PI of the research project Mass Death, Science and Medicine: Handling the Corpses of War in Modern Europe (1850-1960). She is also an associate researcher at the Institute of Humanities in Medicine (Unil/CHUV) and a visiting fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (University of Oxford). Specialising in contemporary history, her research interests include the history of medicine, the history of violence and genocide, the history of death, memorial and heritage politics, and public history. In 2017, she completed a dual PhD at the University of Lausanne and the University Jean Jaurès of Toulouse. Her dissertation focuses on the history of sexology in French-speaking Switzerland. From 2017 to 2021, she was a research associate and then British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford where she conducted a research project on the history of war violence and forensics and taught in the master’s program in Modern European History. She is working on the sub-project Corpses and Mass Graves as Sites of Investigation (1939–1960).
Linda Ratschiller is a postdoctoral researcher at Maison de l’histoire of the University of Geneva since 2024. She holds an MA in the History of Science and Medicine from the University of Cambridge in the UK and a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She is also a lecturer at UniDistance and at the Chair for Medical Humanities in Fribourg. Her research areas include the history of science and medicine, colonial and global history, as well as public history. Her doctoral thesis, Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe 1885–1914: Purity, Health and Cleanliness, offers an entangled history of hygiene. She is examining the sub-project The Medicalisation of Death on the Battlefields (1850–1914).
Project Partners: Erica Charters (University of Oxford) and Benoit Pouget (Sciences Po Aix)
