Dr. Monique Ligtenberg
Dr. Monique Ligtenberg
Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
Monique Ligtenberg is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for History of the Modern World, where she has been studying the provenance of ETH Zurich’s natural history collections since August 2024. In 2023, she defended her dissertation on historical entanglements in the field of medicine between German-speaking Europe and the Dutch East Indies. Additionally, she is a founding member of the decolonial city tour project external page Zürich Kolonial and curator of the exhibition ‘Colonial Traces - Collections in Context’, that is on display in the exhibition space extract until 13 July 2025.
Her research focuses on global history, the history of knowledge and science, the history of natural history collections & collectors and the modern history of Southeast Asia.