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: 2024/2025

Living Buildings Domestic Spaces and Water Displays in the Late Roman West

AutorIn Name
Ginny
Wheller
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Cristina
Murer
Institution
Historisches Institut
Place
Bern
Year
2022/2023
Abstract

Wasser und seine Inszenierung waren ein wesentliches Element der Lebenswelt in den Häusern der Elite in der Spätantike. Die Studie untersucht das zunehmende Interesse an der more...

Living on the edge: how encounters with global war (WWII) re-made the Indo-Burma frontiers into bordered worlds

AutorIn Name
Aditya Kiran
Kakati
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Gopalan
Balachandran
Institution
Geneva Graduate Institute
Place
Genève
Year
2022/2023
Abstract

The thesis addresses the role of WWII as a ‘globalising’ event that shaped state-making, governance, culture(s) and space in colonial frontiers overlapping China-India-Myanmar. Rather more...

Living on the edge; how encounters with global war (WWII) re-made the Indo-Burma frontiers into bordered worlds

AutorIn Name
Aditya Kiran
Kakati
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Gopalan
Balachandran
Institution
Geneva Graduate Institute
Place
Genève
Year
2022/2023
Abstract
The thesis addresses the role of WWII as a ‘globalising’ event that shaped state-making, governance, culture(s) and space in colonial frontiers overlapping China-India-Myanmar. Rather than a more...