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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
14,820 entries

Borderland: Coexistence and Unrest in Early Modern Dalmatia, XVI-XII Centuries

AutorIn Name
Edoardo Flavio
Tesolin
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
laufend/en cours
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Lucas
Burkart
Institution
Departement für Zeitgeschichte
Place
Basel
Year
2025/2026
Abstract

Borders are traditionally depicted as lines between countries. However, perceiving them merely as such is a limitation of a complex reality. Those lines change over time. Cities move from one side more...

Borders on the Move: Tribes and Territoriality in the Post-Ottoman Middle East, 1918-1936. Direction: Jordi Tejel et Johann Büssow

AutorIn Name
Laura
Stocker
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
laufend/en cours
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Jordi
Tejel
Institution
Histoire contemporaine
Place
Neuchâtel
Year
2025/2026
Abstract
Within this framework my project focuses on the Bedouin tribes of the desert borderlands between Iraq, Syria and Transjordan from the late 1920s to the post-WWII period. Looking at the influence of more...