We are delighted to welcome PD Dr. Regula Ludi as a Mercator Fellow of the Research Unit Voluntariness! She will be a visiting scholar at the University of Erfurt from mid-May to early July 2026.
About Regula
Regula Ludi is a historian and lecturer and researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Ethics and Human Rights at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). During the summer semester of 2026, she is joining the research group as a Mercator Fellow at the University of Erfurt. In Fribourg, she co-directed the SNSF project “Voluntary Work and Gender: Renegotiating the Social Division of Labor since the 1970s” with Matthias Ruoss, as well as the SNSF AGORA-project “Behind the Scenes: The History of Volunteering in Switzerland,” and currently the SNSF project „Making History: Archival Activism (to Archive Activism) in the Interwar Period.“ In addition to gender history and the history of feminism, her research focuses on the history of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Her primary focus is on the history of remembrance and reparations for victims of Nazism. In February 2026, she co-edited the special issue “The Power of Voluntary Activity: Global Perspectives” with Jürgen Martschukat and Matthias Ruoss for the journal Comparativ.
