Prof. Dr. phil. Franziska Metzger

Franziska Metzger is Professor of History and Head of the Master programme in History Education and Public Historyas well as director of the Department of History at the University of Teacher Education Lucerne. She teaches in the study programmes Secondary Level I, Secondary Level II and History Education and Public History with a focus on Swiss and European history of the 19th and 20th/21st centuries and topics of memory and memory construction, history politics, dealing with memory in schools and the public, participatory remembrance especially of minorities, narratives of memory in literature, art and social media.

She researches and publishes in particular in the fields of memory studies, public history, history of religion and historical theory. She is co-editor of the publication series Erinnerungsräume / Spaces of Memory (with Dimiter Daphinoff) and editor-in-chief of the Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte.

In recent years, she has pursued various international projects in memory studies and religious history. She is co-editor with Dimiter Daphinoff of the publication series “Spaces of Memory – History, Literature, Art” (Böhlau/Brill) and editor in Chief of the Swiss Journal for Religious and Cultural History (Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte). 

She is a member of national and international scientific commissions and advisory boards (e.g. she is head of the expert commission of the "History of Muri Abbey" project, a member of the scientific advisory board of the historical-critical complete edition of Jeremias Gotthelf's works and of the board of the History Days 2025 at the University of Lucerne).