Marigona Ibrahimi Tahiraj, MA
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Marigona Ibrahimi Tahiraj completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in secondary education at the Lucerne University of Teacher Education, earning a Master of Arts in Secondary Education with a focus on German, history, natural sciences and visual arts. She then furthered her academic training in the interdisciplinary master’s program “History Didactics and Public History Communication” at the Lucerne University of Teacher Education and the University of Fribourg. In her master’s thesis, she examined the demonstrations in Kosovo in their historical context as well as in terms of their cultural and memory-related processing, thereby laying the foundation for her current research interests at the intersection of protest history, collective memory, and cultural representation.
She has been a doctoral candidate at the University of Lucerne since January 2026. Prior to that, she worked for several years as a student assistant on research projects under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Franziska Metzger at the Institute for History Didactics and Cultures of Remembrance (IGE) at the Lucerne University of Teacher Education. In this role, she was involved in the planning and implementation of academic projects, particularly in the areas of memory and remembrance, nation-state formation, and the analysis of history teaching materials.
A particular focus of her work was her collaboration with the editorial team of the Swiss Journal of Religion. She also contributed to a commemorative volume in honor of Urs Altermatt. Furthermore, she gained extensive experience in the conception and design of academic communication formats, particularly in website development, the creation of brochures and flyers, and the preparation of academic events.
In parallel with her academic work, she taught as a secondary school teacher at the Reiden School (LU), thereby combining research with classroom practice in the teaching of history.
Research
Master’s Thesis I: Johann Gottlieb Fichte and His Rhetoric in the Addresses to the German Nation – A Contribution to the Role of Rhetoric in the Political Philosophy of German Idealism
Master’s Thesis II: Protest and Memory – An Analysis of the 1968 Demonstrations in Kosovo and Their Cultural Reflection in the Song “6 tetor ’68”
Research Focus:
- History didactics and public history education
- Culture of remembrance and collective memory
- Constructions of national identity and concepts of the nation
- Political rhetoric and discourse analysis of historical narratives
- History of protest
