Mischa Suter
Senior Fellow 2025–2026

Mischa Suter’s work lies at the intersection of historical anthropology, social history, and critical theory. Trained as a historian of modern Europe, his previous two monographs explore what a cultural history of economic life might look like, and related work has been published in English, German, French, and Chinese. He is currently completing a book on the history of psychoanalysis between West Africa and Western Europe in the 1960s. By retracing experiments with the talking cure in Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, France, and Switzerland, he examines the political and epistemological challenges that decolonization posed for understandings of subject formation in both Europe and West Africa.

Mischa received his PhD in 2014 and his Habilitation in 2022. Before joining the Graduate Institute, he taught at the University of Basel (CH) and held visiting scholarships at the City University of New York (US), Humboldt University of Berlin (DE), the University of Vienna (AT), Duke University (US), the University of Chicago (US), and the University of Michigan (US). In fall 2025, he was a fellow at Princeton University’s Davis Center for Historical Studies (US).