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Martin Bürgin studied History, Study of Religions and Political Science at the University of Zurich and at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich from 2005-2013. From 2008-2009 he received an Erasmus stipendiary at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin where he took courses in history, cultural studies, art history and the social sciences (political science). In May 2013 he graduated with the Licentiate of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zurich. In November 2014 he received a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Crisis Communication at the Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM) at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). From February 2014 to August 2016 he participated in the Teaching Skills Programme at the Center for University Teaching and Learning (University of Zurich). From September 2016 to September 2017 he obtained a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher Education at the University of Zurich.
From 2005-2009 he worked as an archivist in the areas of transcription, development and systematization on behalf of Docuteam GmbH, Baden-Dättwil. From 2007-2012 he held several tutorships at the Department of History at the University of Zurich for Rudolf Jaun, Jakob Tanner, Philipp Sarasin, Marianne Sommer, Annerose Menninger, Heinz Hauser and Lorena Rizzo. In 2009 he worked as a research assistant at the professorship of Military History at the Military Academy at ETH Zurich (MILAK). In autumn semester 2013 he worked as substitute at the Chair for History of Religion and the Study of Religions at the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Zurich. From May 2013 to May 2017 he was a Research Fellow at the Chair of History of Old Catholicism and Ecclesiastical History at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Bern where he edited the correspondence of Eduard Herzog and Joseph Hubert Reinkens (supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation). For the academic year 2015/2016 he was a fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute in London and a stipendiary of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Together with Christoph Uehlinger he initiated, organized and led a project in the field of «research-oriented teaching and learning» from January to September 2017, funded by the Teaching Fund for Innovative Teaching at the University of Zurich. From January to December 2019 he led a second Teaching Fund project, focusing on alternative forms of course assessments and concept of «flipped classrooms» in digital space. From February 2016 to February 2021 he worked within the University of Basel based «Jewish Cultural Space Aargau» project on the history of Swiss Jewry from the 17th Century to the beginning of the 19th Century. Since September 2013 Martin Bürgin holds a teaching assignment at the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Zurich. Together with Philipp Hetmanczyk he initiated the cross-disciplinary GRC Peer Group for Religion and Politics which is operative since January 2017. For the Royal Baden Art Centre Martin Bürgin curates and hosts the «royalscandalcinema» film cycle for the History of the Cinematic Scandal.
Martin Bürgin writes a thesis on the so-called plum war, an anti-Judaic pogrom that occurred in Endingen and Lengnau on 21st of September in 1802. The dissertation is funded by the Forschungskredit of the University of Zurich, the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. His supervisors are Christoph Uehlinger (Study of Religions, Zurich), Jacques Picard (Jewish History and Cultural Anthropology, Basel) and Jakob Tanner (Social and Economic History, Zurich).
From December 2014 to September 2022, he was delegate of the Faculty of Theology on the Board of the Association of Young Academics of the University of Zurich (VAUZ). From March 2015 to March 2017, he represented the interests of the Mittelbau at the Assembly of the Theological Faculty. From September 2016 to September 2022, he was a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Zurich.