ETH Technikgeschichte

David Gugerli, born in 1961, has been a Full Professor of the History of Technology at the Institue for History at the ETH Zurich since 2001. He studied history, the history of literature, and literary criticism at the University of Zurich. After receiving his doctorate in 1987, he was a guest researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, visiting professor at the Colegio de México in Mexico City, visiting scholar at Stanford University in Palo Alto, visiting fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Sciences in Vienna, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Berlin (1993/94). In 1995 he earned a venia legendi (Habilitation) at the University of Zurich. From 1997 to 2001 he was Assistant Professor for the History of Technology at the ETH Zurich. David Gugerli has been awarded the Rudolf Kellerman Prize for the History of Technology (1994), the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences Prize in 1997, and the Award of the Swiss Academy for Humanities and Social Sciences in 1997.

Selected publications

- Monika Dommann und David Gugerli: Geschichtswissenschaft in Begutachtung. Acht Kommentare zur historischen Methode der Gegenwart, in: Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte 2, Chronos Verlag, Zürich 2011, S. 154-164.

- David Gugerli, Patrick Kupper und Daniel Speich: Transforming The Future. ETH Zurich and the Construction of Modern Switzerland 1855-2005. Chronos Verlag: Zurich 2010.

- David Gugerli: Das Monster und die Schablone. Zur Logistik von Daten um 1950, in: Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte 3, Chronos Verlag, Zürich 2009, S. 66-76.

- David Gugerli: Suchmaschinen. Die Welt als Datenbank. Suhrkamp Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 2009.

- David Gugerli: Kybernetisierung der Hochschule. Zur Genese des universären Managements, in: Erich Hörl und Michael Hagner (Hg.): Die Transformation des Humanen. Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Kybernetik, Suhrkamp: Frankfurt am Main 2008, S. 414-439.

- David Gugerli, Patrick Kupper and Daniel Speich.
Die Zukunftsmaschine. Konjunkturen der ETH Zürich 1855-2005. Chronos Verlag: Zürich 2005.

- David Gugerli: Mapping: a communicative strategy, in: Gaudillière, Jean-Paul and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (eds.): From Molecular Genetics to Genomics. The mapping cultures of twentieth-century genetics, Routledge: New York 2004, S. 210-218.

- David Gugerli: Der fliegende Chirurg. Kontexte. Problemlagen und Vorbilder der virtuellen Endoskopie, in: Gugerli, David, Orland, Barbara (Hg.), Ganz normale Bilder. Historische Beiträge zur visuellen Herstellung von Selbstverständlichkeit, (Interferenzen 2), Chronos Verlag, Zürich 2002, 251-270.