Position
- PhD student in history and gender studies
Contact
- Department for Economic, Environmental and Social History, University of Bern, Switzerland
Research interests
I am completing my PhD in history while conducting interdisciplinary research across history, literature, and animal-human studies. My PhD thesis focuses on the cultural and gender history of equestrian sport, examining how gender difference is constructed and reproduced in a discipline where physical differences do not disadvantage women. Looking ahead, I am interested in expanding my research on to the interplay between commercialization, power, and gender in sport, exploring how social hierarchies and institutional structures shape participation and meaning-making across both amateur and elite contexts.
Selected publications
Steuerwald, Noemi: Modest Riding Missies or Victorious Amazons? A Gender Historical Approach to the History of Women’s Equestrianism in Switzerland (1900–1940). In: Stadion. Internationale Zeitschrift für Geschichte des Sports 47/1 (2023): 5–27.
Steuerwald, Noemi: Neue Perspektiven auf einen ungeklärten Rezeptionszusammenhang: Gottfried Keller und Johann Jakob Bachofen. In: Germanistik in der Schweiz 20 (2023): 30–47.
Steuerwald, Noemi: Von Männersache zu Mädchentraum. Blog of the Swiss National Museum. Zürich 2025, https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/2025/04/pferdesport-von-mannersache-zu-madchentraum/, 02.04.2025.
Steuerwald, Noemi: Taming or Revering Nature? Equestrian Sports as a Mirror of Nature Perceptions in the Early 20th Century. In: Idrott, Historia & Samhälle. Idrottshistoriska föreningens årsskrift 44 (2025): 68-88.
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Published 2026-03-08
