Biografie

Sandrine Kott has been professor of Modern European history at the university of Geneva between 2004 and 2025. She is Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. She studied in Paris, Bielefeld (Germany) and Columbia (New York) and holds an habilitation from the Sorbonne University. She was a member of the Institut Universitaire de France between 1997 and 2001. She is a member of the academia europeae https://www.ae-info.org/.

She has been invited professor at Humboldt Universität (Berlin), University of Santa Barbara (California) and at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)

She is a social historian of modern Europe as well as an international historian. Her principal fields of expertise are the history of labor and social welfare in France and Germany since the end of the nineteenth century and labor relations in those countries of real socialism, in particular in the German Democratic Republic. She has developed the transnational and global dimensions of each of her fields of expertise by taking advantage of the archives and resources of international organizations and particularly of the International Labor Organization. She has initiated in 2009 the History of International Organizations Network, a collaborative online research platform and seminar series http://www.hion.ch/

She published over 130 articles in French, German and American journals and collective volumes, edited 20 volumes and special issues (in French, Polish, German and English) and published eight monographs

last monographs

A World More Equal. An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War. New-York, Columbia University Press, 2024.

Sozialstaat und Gesellschaft. Das deutsche Kaiserreich in Europa. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014.

Communism Day-to-Day. State Enterprises in East German Society. Michigan, Michigan University Press, 2014.

She has supervised around twenty theses.

History of international organizations network / http://www.hion.ch/