Bernhard C. Schär is an SNSF Eccellenza Professor at the Institute of Political Studies at the University of Lausanne. His scholarly interests encompass colonial armies, imperial masculinities, racism, and the 19th-century Protestant mission movement, with a focus on the Dutch South-East Asian empire and its European context. Recently, he has shifted his research to examine Switzerland's historical integration into various imperial formations during the 19th century, exploring new transimperial histories of Europe.