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

Women's Work and Social Change: The Case of Ethiopian Civil Servant Women 1941-2003.

AutorIn Name
Yeselamwork Sherif
Mohammed
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
laufend/en cours
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Aidan
Russell
Institution
Geneva Graduate Institute
Place
Genève
Year
2023/2024
Abstract

This study tracing the history of women in government over half a century and through three political regimes intends to examine the change or absence of change in women's socio-economic more...

Women, Colonial Hybridity and Nationalism: An Examination of Identity Formation in Zanzibar and Réunion

AutorIn Name
Aminata Buganzi
Kinana
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
laufend/en cours
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Aidan
Russell
Institution
Geneva Graduate Institute
Place
Genève
Year
2024/2025
Abstract

This text provides the first comparative study of the role of Zanzibari and Réunionnais women in the history of nation building during the colonial and post-colonial eras, linking efforts more...

World Bank development interventions in Ethiopia; the case of Wolayta Agricultural Development Unit (WADU), 1970-82

AutorIn Name
Surafel Gelgelo
Kumsa
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Gareth
Austin
Institution
Geneva Graduate Institute
Place
Genève
Year
2017/2018
Abstract



This dissertation analyzes the historical experience of a World Bank funded integrated rural development project, the Wolayta Agricultural Development Unit (WADU), in southern more...