Madeleine Herren


Madeleine Herren-Oesch is a Swiss historian.
Madeleine Herren-Oesch studied history and german literature at the University of Bern. She wrote her licentiate about "Aspekte cisleithanischer Sozialpolitik" and in 1989 her dissertation about "Internationale Sozialpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg aus der Perspektive der Dritten Französischen Republik". In 1997 she was promoted to professor with "Hintertüren zur Macht - Internationalismus und modernisierungsorientierte Außenpolitik in Belgien, der Schweiz und den USA 1865-1914". Between 2004 and 2013, Madeleine Herren-Oesch was professor for modern history at the University of Heidelberg. Since April 2013 she has been director of the Institute for European Global Studies at the :www:University of Basel|University of Basel.

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