Master / Licentiates / Dissertations

Here you will find an overview of current and completed PhD and Master's theses in the field of history at Swiss universities. Compiled in collaboration with the Swiss Historical Society (SSH)

You will find copies of the competed works in the library of the university where they were drafted.

Status: 2025/2026
14,876 entries

A slow reckoning; the USSR, the Afghan communists, and Islam

AutorIn Name
Vassily
Klimentov
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Mahmoud
Mohamedou
Institution
Geneva Graduate Institute
Place
Genève
Year
2020/2021
Abstract



This dissertation examines the Soviet Union and the Afghan communists’ perception and policies on Islam during the Soviet-Afghan War and their relations with the “Muslim more...

A South African social garden: people, plants and multispecies histories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

AutorIn Name
Melanie
Boehi
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Nigel
Penn
Institution
Departement Geschichte
Place
Basel
Year
2019/2020
Abstract
Gardens and gardening are widely regarded as apolitical. Accordingly, garden historians have hardly written about politics, and social historians have rarley taken gardens and gardening into more...