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Christa Santina Wirth

Professor

Institutt for religion, filosofi og historie

E-post: christa.wirth@uia.no
Telefon: +47 38141960
Mobiltelefon: +4740018229

Kontor E2015 (Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Forskningsgrupper

Claimed pasts: Critical knowledge and heritage production

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Publications (all), Guest Lectures, and Papers (most recent) see below: Utvalgte Publikasjoner/Selected Publications

Christa Wirth is a professor of history (1750-Present) at the Institute for Religion, Philosophy, and History at the University of Agder. She researches and teaches the history of global migration and the history of science. Wirth has a particular focus on the history of the United States and its transnational and global entanglements. In her book, Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United States, 1884-Present, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2015, she follows Italian labor migrants in their transnational travel networks in the Atlantic economy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Additionally, Memories of Belonging documents a century of settlement, incorporation, and later-generation self-identification in the 20th century. It reveals how memories of migration, everyday life, and ethnicity are passed down through the generations, altered, and contested while constituting family identities. Wirth is currently working on a book-length manuscript on the history of social science, in particular on anthropologists who conducted research between Chicago and Manila during the Cold War.

She teaches courses in global migration history, global family history, history of the U.S. Empire, memory studies, gender history, and theories and methods of history.

Wirth received her dissertation at the University of Zurich. She was a visiting fellow and (post)doctoral teaching fellow at Harvard University and a post-doctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Wirth worked as an Oberassistentin at the history department of the University of Zurich.

Wirth is co-initiator of the networks “Transnational History Switzerland” (Berne) and “Knowledge and the Cold War” (Zurich). She is also an associate of the Center “History of Knowledge”, ETH Zurich/University of Zurich.

Forskning

transnational and global history

U.S. history

migration history

memory studies

(post)colonial history

history of (social) science

gender history

Utvalgte publikasjoner

Monographs

Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United States, 1884−Present. Brill: Leiden, Boston 2015.

Editor: Anthology

Büsser, Nathalie, David, Thomas, Eichenberger, Pierre, Haller, Lea, Straumann, Tobias, Wirth, Christa (eds.). Transnationale Geschichte der Schweiz; Histoire transnationale de la Suisse. Chronos Verlag 2020 (Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte), 34, 2020.

Editor: Special Issue Journal

Der kalte Krieg: Kältegrade eines globalen Konflikts. Nach Feierabend: Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte, 12, 2017 (Berlin/Zurich), co-edited together with Silvia Berger Ziauddin and David Eugster.

Articles

Reading Rizal: Wilhelm Tell and Texts of Revolution in the Colonial Philippines. Postcolonial Studies Journal.

The Anthropologist as Deviant Modernizer: Felipe Landa Jocanoʼs Journey through the Cold War, the Social Sciences, Decolonization, and Nation Building in the Philippines. In: Solovey, Mark, Dayé, Christian (Eds.). Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 161-189.

The History of Knowledge and the Cold War: An Essay. In: Nach Feierabend: Das Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte, Band 15, 2020, pp. 159-166.

Migrations and Nations: Historical Perspectives on Current Border Crossings. In: Historisk Tidsskrif, 98/2019, pp. 297-308.

Jocano’s Digging for a Precolonial Past at Santa Ana: Nation-Building at the Nexus of the Cold War and Decolonization. In: Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia: Pioneering Filipino Anthropology: The Works and Writings of F. Landa Jocano, 55/1-2, 2019, pp. 150-155.

Lisa Tetzner: Die Kinder aus Nr. 67. In: NZZ Geschichte, 23, 2019: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), p. 114.

The Creation of a Postcolonial Subject: The Chicago and Ateneo de Manila Schools and the Peace Corps in the Philippines, 1960-1970. In: The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2018.

Gewaltige Hitze: Apocalypse Now – Film, Ereignis und Roman. In: Berger Ziauddin, Silvia, Eugster, David, Wirth, Christa (Eds). In: Der kalte Krieg: Kältegrade eines globalen Konflikts. Nach Feierabend: Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte, Band 12, 2017.

Together with Berger Ziauddin and Eugster: James Bond fährt Ski: Ein Versuch über die Kälte des Kalten Kriege. In: Berger Ziauddin, Silvia, Eugster, David, Wirth, Christa (Eds.). Der kalte Krieg: Kältegrade eines globalen Konflikts. Nach Feierabend: Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte, Band 12, 2017.

Beyond Switzerland: Reframing the Swiss Historical Narrative in Light of Transnational History, together with Eichenberger, Pierre et al. In: Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte, 2017/1, pp. 137-152.

Why the Hyphen? Individual and Collective Memories of Italianness in the United States at the Intersection of Class and Generation. In: Immigrants and Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora, 34(1):22-48.

Book Chapters

Movements, Sites, and Encounters of (Post)colonial Knowledge in and of the Pacific. In: Middell, Matthias (Ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies, London 2018, pp. 110-116.

Memory and Migration: Research. In: Ness, Immanuel (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Volume IV. Hoboken, NJ 2013, pp. 2158-2164.

Der “American Dream” in den Erzählungen der Nachkommen eines italienischen Migrantenpaares: Ein Werkstattbericht. In: Boesen, Elisabeth, Lenz, Fabienne (eds.). Migration und Erinnerung. Migration et mémoire: Methoden und Konzepte der Forschung. Méthodes et concepts de recherche. LIT-Verlag: Berlin et al. 2010, pp. 105-136.

Reviews

Fischer-Tiné, Harald. Pidgin Knowledge. Wissen und Kolonialismus. Zurich, Berlin 2013. Review in: H-Soz-und Kult.

Guglielmo, Jennifer. Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945. Chapel Hill, NC 2010. Review in: WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 14, 2011/3, pp. 429-430.

(Past) Editor and Board Responsibilities

International Board on the History of Knowledge, Lund University.

UNITAS: Semi-Annual Peer-Reviewed International Online Journal of Advanced Research in Literature, Culture, and Society, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines.

ROSA – Journal of Gender Studies (Zurich).

Guest Lectures, Keynote Lectures, Conference Papers (more recent)

Guest Lectures

Methods of the History of Knowledge: How to Apply the Insights of the History of Knowledge to Our Own Research. Doctoral Workshop: Methods and Theory in the History of Knowledge // Perspectives from the Sources, Doctoral Program History of Knowledge ETH Zurich/Uni Zurich, May, 2022.

Knowledge and Complicity: A Chicago Anthropologist at the Nexus the Cold War and Decolonization in the Philippines, Seminar History of Knowledge, St. Andrews University, November, 2019.

Cold War Knowledge: Social Science Between Manila and Chicago, History of Knowledge, Kunskapshistoriska seminaret, Lund University, Sweden, December, 2018.

Translating the Revolution? Schiller’s Tell and Philippine Nationalism: Presented in Research Colloquium of Department of Iberian and Latin American History, and Department for North American History. University of Cologne, Germany, June, 2014.

Introdcution: Oral history in Seminar 34k, “Italian-Americans: History, Literature, Identity,” Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, spring, 2009.

Keynote Lecture

Norwegian National History Days, University of Agder, keynote: Migrations and Nations: Historical Perspectives on Current Border Crossings, June 1, 2018.

Conference Papers (2019)

Historizing the Archeological Dig, 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, University of Berne, September 4-6, 2019.

Anthropology and the Marcos Regime: Complicit Postcolonial Knowledge during the Cold War between the Philippines and the United States, 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, University of Berne, September 4-6, 2019.

Chicago Social Scientists in the Philippines:Navigating Whiteness at the Nexus of the Cold War and Decolonization,Memory Studies Association: Third Annual Conference: Complutense University, Madrid, June 25-28, 2019.

Chicago Anthropologists, Workshop on Cold War Social Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada, May, 22-23, 2019.

Anthropology across the Pacific, Workshop: “Knowledge and the Cold War: Histories of the (Social) Sciences and Environmental Studies”, UiA, 2019

Formidling

Host, Claimed Pasts’s Brown Bag lunch. Monthly public research seminars, UiA/zoom. 2022.

«Sie steht für alles, was Putin hasst». Tagesanzeiger, Swiss National Newspaper on arrest of Brittney Griner. 2022.

Host, Claimed Pasts’s Brown Bag lunch. Monthly public research seminars, UiA/zoom, 2021.

Host, Claimed Pasts’s Brown Bag lunch. Monthly public research seminars, UiA/zoom, 2020.

Lisa Tetzner: Die Kinder aus Nr. 67. In: NZZ Geschichte, 23, 2019: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), p. 114., 2019.

“Make America Mexican Again: Two Centuries of U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings”. Lørdagsuniversitet i Kristiansand – Saturday University. Teateret/Theater Kristiansand, 2019.

Panelist, Living Research-Library: Migrationsgeschichten, Aula PROGR, Center for Culture Practice, Berne, 2017.

Organizer and moderator of panel “Ist der Strafvollzug in der Krise? Ein Vergleichender Blick in die USA nach den Protesten von Ferguson (Wissen in Gesellschaft, Nr. 3), Center “History of Knowledge” (ETH Zurich/UZH) Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, May 2017.

2014 Commentary: U.S. civil rights movement on Swiss national TV “10vor10: Wurzeln des Rassismus” on August 20, 2014.

https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/10vor10/video/wurzeln-des-rassismus?id=7f69f8ea-6dcb-4041-bc49-a3e366cc1097&station=69e8ac16-4327-4af4-b873-fd5cd6e895a7

Wirth, Christa Santina (2023). Scholars as Knowledge Actors: Taking the Knowledge Paradigm Personally. I Östling, Johan; Heidenblad, David Larsson & Hammar, Anna Nilsson (Red.), Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge . Nordic Academic Press. ISSN 978-9189361652. s. 251–267. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Wirth, Christa Santina & Rasmussen, Josephine Munch (2023). The Value of Forgeries for Historical Research. I Brodie, Neil; Kersel, Morag M. & Rasmussen, Josephine Munch (Red.), Variant Scholarship: Ancient Texts in Modern Contexts. Sidestone Press. ISSN 9789464270464. s. 169–187. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
Since the eighteenth century, many if not most ancient and medieval manuscripts or other text-bearing or associated objects have been procured through imperial expropriation or through the antiquities market with little or no evidence of findspot or place of original deposition and with no assurance of legal provenance or authenticity. The consequences of these questionable acquisition practices for scholarship and for our understanding of the past are the focus of much enquiry. Recent high-profile acquisitions (and subsequent returns) of text-bearing objects by prominent private collectors and museums and the appearance on the market of demonstrably modern forgeries have resulted in increased scrutiny of the intellectual and commercial impacts of academic engagement. Scholarly research can abet the antiquities market directly or indirectly through identification, authentication and legitimation of illegally traded text-bearing objects. These harmful complications of well-established academic practice raise important questions about how and even if the academy should engage with ancient texts and text-bearing objects of uncertain provenance. Through a wide-ranging set of case studies, variant scholarship focuses on the methodological, theoretical, and ethical dilemmas facing scholars when working with ancient texts in modern contexts. This book is intended for those interested in the historical practices of research into ancient manuscripts, ethical quandaries in studying unprovenanced textual materials, and the unintended consequences of scholarly interactions with problematic text-bearing objects.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2022). Article: Violent Heat: Apocalypse Now between (De-)Colonization and the Cold War . UNITAS: Journal of Advanced Research in Literature, Culture, and Society. ISSN 2619-7987. s. 82–113.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2021). Reading Rizal: Wilhelm Tell and texts of revolution in the colonial Philippines. Postcolonial Studies. ISSN 1368-8790. s. 259–278. doi: 10.1080/13688790.2021.2018774.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2021). The Anthropologist as Deviant Modernizer: Felipe Landa Jocano’s Journey Through the Cold War, the Social Sciences, Decolonization, and Nation Building in the Philippines. I Solovey, Mark & Dayé, Christian (Red.), Cold War Social Science Transnational Entanglements. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-70246-5. s. 161–189.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2020). The History of Knowledge and the Cold War: An Essay. Nach Feierabend: Das Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte. ISSN 2235-4654. 15, s. 159–166.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2019). Migrations and nations: Historical perspectives on current border crossings. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). ISSN 0018-263X. 98(4), s. 297–308. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2944-2019-04-02.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2019). Jocano’s Digging for a Pre-Colonial Past at Santa Ana in Manila: Nation-Building at the Nexus of the Cold War and Decolonization. Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia. ISSN 0004-4679. 55, s. 150–155.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2018). Wirth, Christa. The Creation of a Postcolonial Subject: The Chicago and Ateneo de Manila Schools and the Peace Corps in the Philippines, 1960-1970. . Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. ISSN 0022-5061. 54, s. 5–24. doi: 10.1002/jhbs.21883.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2018). Movements, Sites, and Encounters of (Post)colonial Knowledge in and of the Pacific. I Middell, Matthias (Red.), The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies.. Routledge. ISSN 9781138718364. s. 110–116. doi: 10.4324/9780429438233-14.
Wirth, Christa Santina; Berger Ziauddin, Silvia & Eugster, David (2017). James Bond fährt Ski: Ein Versuch über die Kälte des Kalten Kriege. In: Berger Ziauddin, Silvia, Eugster, David, Wirth, Christa (Eds.). Der kalte Krieg: Kältegrade eines globalen Konflikts. Nach Feierabend: Das Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte. ISSN 2235-4654. s. 7–16.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2017). Gewaltige Hitze: Apocalypse Now – Film, Ereignis und Roman: In: Berger Ziauddin, Silvia, Eugster, David, Wirth, Christa (Eds).Der kalte Krieg: Kältegrade eines globalen Konflikts. Nach Feierabend: Das Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte. ISSN 2235-4654. 12, s. 61–84.
Wirth, Christa Santina; Eichenberger, Pierre; David, Thomas; Haller, Lea; Leimgruber, Matthieu & Schär, Bernhard (2017). Beyond Switzerland: Reframing the Swiss Historical Narrative in Light of Transnational History. Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte / Revue d'histoire. ISSN 1420-4355. s. 137–152.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2015). Why the Hyphen? Individual and Collective Memories of Italianness in the United States at the Intersection of Class and Generation. . Immigrants & Minorities. ISSN 0261-9288. 34, s. 22–48.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2013). Memory and Migration: Research. . I Ness, Immanuel (Red.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Wiley-Blackwell. ISSN 978-1-4443-3489-0. s. 2158–2164.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2010). Der “American Dream” in den Erzählungen der Nachkommen eines italienischen Migrantenpaares: Ein Werkstattbericht. I Boesen, Elisabeth & Lentz, Fabienne (Red.), Migration und Erinnerung. Konzepte und Methoden der Forschung/ Migration et mèmoire. Concepts et mèthodes de recherche. LIT Verlag. ISSN 9783643103413. s. 105–136.

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Wirth, Christa Santina; David, Thomas; Eichenberger, Pierre; Büsser, Nathalie; Haller, Lea & Straumann, Tobias (2020). Transnationale Geschichte der Schweiz; Histoire transnationale de la Suisse. Chronos Verlag. ISBN 978-3-0340-1522-6.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2015). Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United States, 1884−Present. . Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-28456-2. 420 s.

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Wirth, Christa Santina (2024). Colonial Identities: Christian Krohg’s Leiv Eriksson Discovers America .
Wirth, Christa Santina (2023). A Chicago School of Philippine Studies: A History of Colonial and Cold War Entanglements, 1898-1977.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2023). The Sexualized Gaze and Imperial Touch of a Chicago Anthropologist in the Philippines, in the Congo Free State, and in Mexico 1900-1910 at University of Berne.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2023). Presentation: Early Chicago Anthropology: Between St.Louis and Baguio, 1898-1910 at research colloquium University of Zurich.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2023). Presentation:(Post)colonial Norway at Workshop (Post)colonial Norway.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2023). Die Chicago School der Philippine Studies zwischen Manila und Chicago: Sozialwissenschaftliches Wissen, Kalter Krieg und Dekolonisierung.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2023). I hvilken kontekst bør vi forstå «Leiv Eiriksson oppdager Amerika»? Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2022). Historical Perspectives on Food Security.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2022). Presentation: The Long Shadow of Empire: The Chicago School of Philippine Studies .
Rasmussen, Josephine Munch; Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard & Wirth, Christa Santina (2022). Book presentation: Ancient Texts in Modern Contexts. Contributions from UiA.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2022). Lecture: Methods of the History of Knowledge: How to Apply the Insights of the History of Knowledge to Our Own Research.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2022). Presentation: Scholars as Knowledge Workers: Taking the Knowledge Paradigm Personally .
Wirth, Christa Santina (2022). Interview: «Sie steht für alles, was Putin hasst». [Avis]. Tagesanzeiger.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2022). Lecture: A Chicago School of Philippine Studies? Traveling and Contested Modernization between Manila and Chicago, 1950s-1970s.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2021). The Cat, the Bird, and Significant Others: A U.S. Anthropologist Family and the Ifugao of the Philippines .
Wirth, Christa Santina (2021). commentary on papers of Claire Louise Blaser: Sanskrit Roots and Josephine Selander: Spiritual Entrepreneurs.
Wirth, Christa Santina & Lüthi, Barbara (2020). The Nexus of Agency – Knowledge in Migration Studies.
Wirth, Christa Santina; Rasmussen, Josephine Munch; Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard & Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (2020). UiA-studentane er ikkje lettkrenkte. Fædrelandsvennen. ISSN 0805-3790.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2019). “Historizing the Archeological Dig”, 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, University of Berne, September 4-6.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2019). “Anthropology and the Marcos Regime: Complicit Postcolonial Knowledge during the Cold War between the Philippines and the United States”, 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, University of Berne, September 4-6.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2019). “Chicago Social Scientists in the Philippines: Navigating Whiteness at the Nexus of the Cold War and Decolonization”, Memory Studies Association: Third Annual Conference: Complutense University, Madrid .
Wirth, Christa Santina (2019). “Chicago Anthropologists”, Workshop on Cold War Social Sciences, University of Toronto.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2019). Lisa Tetzner: Die Kinder aus Nr. 67. In: NZZ Geschichte, nr. 23: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) . NZZ Geschichte.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2019). “Anthropology across the Pacific”, Workshop: “Knowledge and the Cold War: Histories of the (Social) Sciences and Environmental Studies”, UiA.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2019). “Make America Mexican Again: Two Centuries of U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings”. Lørdagsuniversitet i Kristiansand – Saturday University. Teateret/Theater Kristiansand.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2018). Cold War Knowledge: Social Science Between Manila and Chicago, History of Knowledge.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2018). Migrations and Nations: Historical Perspectives on Current Border Crossings.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2018). Philippine Scholars between Manila and Chicago: A History of the Social Sciences, Decolonization, and the Cold War.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2018). Historical Contexts of Forgeries: The Philippine-American Case.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2018). Locating Anthropologists and Archaeologists Within a History of Knowledge.
Wirth, Christa Santina (2017). Berger Ziauddin, Silvia, Eugster, David, Wirth, Christa (Eds.). Der kalte Krieg: Kältegrade eines globalen Konflikts. Nach Feierabend: Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte, 12, 2017 (Berlin/Zurich). Nach Feierabend: Das Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte. ISSN 2235-4654. 12.

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