Dr. Tomas Bartoletti
Dr. Tomas Bartoletti
Lecturer
Tomás Bartoletti is Senior Lecturer and SNSF-Ambizione Research Group Leader at the Chair for History of the Modern World of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. He earned his PhD from the University of Buenos Aires and read Latin American Literature and Linguistics at the University of Buenos Aires and History of Science and Technology at the University of Quilmes (Argentina). Tomás has held research positions as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2021-2023) and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ETH Zürich (2019-2021). He has been also Researcher in the Gotha Research Centre (2019), the University of Erfurt (2017-2018) and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2014-2016), among others. He has published articles in journals, like Comparative Studies in Society and History, Global Intellectual History, Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. An exhibition coming out of his research, Naming Natures (external pagenaming-natures.ch), is planned to take place in November 2024 at the Natural History Museum of Neuchatel. Currently, he is a member of the editorial board of the Commodity Frontiers Journal.
His research interests include the history of science and empire, the history of capitalism and environmental history. His current research projects focus on the history of pest control and commodity frontiers in the Global South, c. 1880-1930; and the history of Swiss science in Latin America during the 19th century. In these projects, Tomás explores the methodological intersections of material culture and transdisciplinary research, while integrating comprehensively indigenous perspectives.