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

The Manly Beast and the Angel in the House.
Normative Männlichkeits- und Weiblichkeitsentwürfe in englischen Eheratgebern des 19. Jahrhunderts

AutorIn Name
Tamara Terry
Widmer
Academic writing genre
Master thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Joachim
Eibach
Institution
Historisches Institut
Place
Bern
Year
2017/2018
Abstract
Das Forschungsinteresse der vorgelegten Arbeit gilt den normativen Vorstellungen über die Ehe, die als zentraler und alltäglicher Schauplatz der Geschlechterverhältnisse ein äusserst more...

The Mataroa Network: Greek Intellectuals as Brokers in the Transnational Exchange of Knowledge between Greece and France, 1945-1989

AutorIn Name
Dino
Tsakmaklis
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
laufend/en cours
DozentIn Name
Pof.
Damir
Skenderovic
Institution
Seminar für Zeitgeschichte
Place
Fribourg
Year
2024/2025
Abstract

In December 1945, a group of young Greek scholarship holders set sail from war-torn Athens to Paris on the ocean liner Mataroa. In the years that followed, many actors within the “Mataroa more...

The Meat of the Story: Livestock Capitalism, Meat Production and Veterinary Public Health in Nigerian History, 1878–1960

AutorIn Name
Oluwaseun Otosede
Williams
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
laufend/en cours
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Aidan
Russell
Institution
Geneva Graduate Institute
Place
Genève
Year
2024/2025
Abstract
By historicising meat production and veterinary public health in colonial Lagos, this study examines how the British colonial establishment, particularly its medical and law enforcement more...

The Meteorological Diaries of Johann Rudolf von Salis-Marschlins, 1781-1800

AutorIn Name
Markus
Grimmer
Academic writing genre
Master thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Christian
Institution
Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research
Place
Bern
Year
2019/2020
Abstract
Weather and climate of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, i.e. before the start of national weather services, is not very well understood. However, this was a climatically more...

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