Dissertations
An overview of the dissertation projects currently conducted at the Chair can be found here:

Julian Sandhagen
Multikonfessioneller Antikommunismus? - Pius XII. und der interreligiöse Dialog auf dem Balkan mit besonderem Fokus auf Bosnien und Albanien (mehr...)
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Lucija Bakšić Intellectual Networks and Circulation of Individual Psychology in East-Central and South-East Europe in the First Half of the 20th Century (project description ...) |
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Martin Blasius |
Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium |
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Johannes Breit |
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Zeynep Ertugrul Preaching the Republic: The Spokespeople of the Single-Party Regime in Turkey (project description ...) |
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Maren Francke "Ein liberales Projekt? Die ungarischen ‚Fachkollegien‘ seit dem Spätsozialismus" (project description...) |
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Priska Komaromi Buying Sex under Consumer Socialism: Western Clients and Transnational Masculinities in Hungarian Sex Tourism, 1968-89. (project description....) |
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Thomas Porena |
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Victor Ugorets |
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Concluded dissertation projects
Dr. Ewa Anna Kumelowski
Doctoral defence
Subject of the doctoral thesis: The Sarajevo Ghetto Spectacle: historical trajectories of the Yugoslav visual arts community during the siege of Sarajevo (project description...)
Dr. des. Veronika Hager
Doctoral defense
Subject of the doctoral thesis: „Thinking about the Ottoman Empire in the Early Republic of Turkey“ (project description...)
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Dr. des. Jovo Miladinović Subject of the doctoral thesis: „Heroes, Traitors, and Survivors in the Borderlands of Empires: Military Mobilizations and Local Communities in the Sandžak (1900s-1920s)“ (project description...)
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Dr. des. Kathrin Jurkat Subject of the doctoral thesis: "Impact of Transition on Workers - An Investigation of the Serbian Working World (project description ...)" |
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Dr. Janis Nalbadidacis Doctoral defence 08 July 2020 Subject of the doctoral thesis: "In the dungeons of the dictatorship: A comparative study of centres of torture in Argentina and Greece during the period of dictatorship (project description ...)" |
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Dr. Thomas Schad Subject of the doctoral thesis: "From Fellow Muslims into Fellow Nationals? Migrants from Yugoslavia to Turkey between demographic engineering and trans-national figurations in İstanbul and İzmir (1945–1990) " (project description...) |
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Dr. Ruža Fotiadis Doctoral defence 24 October 2018 Subject of the doctoral thesis: “Traditional Friends and Orthodox Brothers“ – das griechisch-serbische Beziehungsparadigma. (Project description) |
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Dr. Andreas Guidi Doctoral defence 09 July 2018 Subject of the doctoral thesis: Youth and generation between two empires. Changing sociabilities from Ottoman to Italian rule in Rhodes (project description ...) Published as: Generations of Empire: Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean (Toronto Italien Studies). Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2022. |
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Dr. Robert Lučić Doctoral defence 28 May 2018 Subject of the doctoral thesis: War and Peace in Socialism - The Yugoslav People´s Army and the Break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (project description ...)
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Dr. Bernd Robionek Doctoral defence 20 March 2018 Subject of the doctoral thesis: Das deutsche Genossenschaftswesen in der Vojvodina (1922-41) (project description ...)
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Dr. Boris Stamenić Doctoral defence 17 April 2015 Subject of the doctoral thesis: "Sinjska Alka. Das politische Leben eines Ritterspiels" (Project description) Published as: Das politische Leben eines Ritterspiels. Die Sinjska alka als Vehikel politischer Legitimation im 20. Jahrhundert, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Balkanologische Veröffentlichungen Bd. 63) 2017. |
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Dr. Đorđe Tomić Doctoral defence 28 November 2014 Subject of the doctoral thesis: New borders - old borders. Processes of symbolic delimitation and discourses of alterity in Vojvodina during the 1990ies. (Project description) Published as: „Phantomgrenzen“ in Zeiten des Umbruchs. Die Autonomieidee in der Vojvodina der 1990er Jahre, Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2015. |
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Dr. Claudia Lichnofsky Doctoral defence 31 October 2014 Subject of the doctoral thesis: Appearance of new ethnic identifications – the example of Ashkali and Egyptians in Kosovo (project description) Published as: Ethnienbildung von Muslimen als Abwehr von Antiziganismus: Das Beispiel der Roma, Ashkali und Ägypter im Kosovo, Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2016. |
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Dr. Konrad Petrovszky Doctoral defence 08 July 2013 Subject of the doctoral thesis: Orthodox historiography in Ottoman Southeastern Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries. A study of its formative conditions and forms of expression. (project description) Publiziert als: Geschichte schreiben im osmanischen Südosteuropa. Eine Kulturgeschichte orthodoxer Historiographie des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Balkanologische Veröffentlichungen 60) 2014. |
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Dr. Nicole Immig Doctoral defence 03 May 2013 Subject of the doctoral thesis: Between Emigration and Participation: Muslims in Greece 1878-1897. (project description) Published as: Zwischen Partizipation und Emigration Muslime in Griechenland 1878-1897, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Balkanologische Veröffentlichungen 62) 2015. |