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Historisches Seminar

Dissertations

Ph.D Thesis (Supervisor)

  1. Camille Schneiter, "The Creatures of the Anthropocene. A Bioconstitutional History of Neobiota in Switzerland."
  2. Florian Skelton, TBD

Ph.D. Thesis (Co-Supervision)

  1. Tatiana Carbonell, "Climate Historiographies for a Pastoral Rhône Valley: Engineers, Scientists, and Travelers’ Reports on Nineteenth Century Environmental Knowledge, ETH Zürich" (Ongoing)
  2. Nikhil Dharan, "Colonial Alchemies: Chemists, Chemical Knowledge, and Infrastructure in South India, History and Sociology of Science," University of Pennsylvania. (Ongoing)
  3. Henrik Jochum, "One Health in Geflügelstall." UZH, Zürich (Ongoing)
  4. Kiah Lian Rutz, "Material Ambiguities of Obsolescence," UZH, Zurich (Ongoing)

External Committee Member

  1. Meghna Chaudhuri, “A Measure of Value: Life, Land, and Agrarian Finance in South Asia, 1830-1950,” (New York University, 2020).
  2. Sritama Chatterjee, “Ordinary Environments and Aesthetics in Contemporary Indian Ocean Archipelagic Writings” University of Pittsburg. (ongoing)
  3. Katherine Sinclair, “Frontiers of Sovereignty: An Environmental History of Law, Science, and Profit in the French Kerguelen Islands” (Rutgers University, 2024)

Ph.D. Thesis Examiner

  1. Mark Jones, “Custom, Law and John Company in Kumaon: The Meeting of Local Custom with the Emergent Formal Governmental Practices of the British East India Company in the Himalayan Nation of Kumaon, 1815-1843” (Australian National University, 2018).
  2. Anwesha Ghosh, “Municipal Calcutta: Urban Governance in a Colonial City” (University of Toronto, 2020).
  3. Tamara Fernando, “Pearling Labour and Environments across the Indian Ocean 1880-1925,” (Cambridge University, 2021)
  4. Tara Suri, "Selling Simians: Decolonizatoon, Science and 'The Human' in South Asia, 1925-1984," (Princeton University, 2022)
  5. Sohini Chattopadhyay, "Dead Labor: Urban Technologies of Mass Death in Colonial Bombay and Calcutta, 1880s-1950s" (Columbia University, 2023)