Tiphaine Robert

Biography

Tiphaine Robert is a historian and postdoctoral fellow  (FNS Return CH Postdoc.Mobility). Previously, she was visiting scholar at the Rachel Carson Center (LMU, Munich) and Ecole urbaine de Lyon  (2022-2023). Tiphaine currently conducts research on the development of automobile traffic during the Great Acceleration (1950-2000). She also works as a collaborator at UniDistance Switzerland.
Previously, she conducted research on Cold War refugees (University of Fribourg/EHESS, Paris/Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) and published her thesis in 2021 (Des migrants et des revenants: Une histoire des réfugiées et réfugiés hongrois en Suisse (1956-1963). Neuchâtel: Editions Alphil).