| Alumni/Alumnae | Doctoral thesis | Subject | Final year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darja Schildknecht | The Privatization of Peace: Countering and Preventing Violent Extremism, Gendered Security Strategies and their Effects on Women | Gender Studies | 2025 |
| Sophie Moser | Karbala on the Bosporus: Negotiation Processes of Religious Identity in Shiite Communities in Istanbul | Middle East Studies | 2025 |
| Alejandra Lindman | The ethics of art: A way of understanding arts of movement in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze | European Global Studies | 2025 |
| Rosanna Bertuccio Navarra | Reproduction of gender stereotypes by learners in school spaces (classrooms, corridors, schoolyards, etc.) | Gender Studies | 2024 |
| Julien A. Raemy | Linked Open Usable Data for Cultural Heritage: Perspectives on Community Practices and Semantic Interoperability | Digital Humanities | 2024 |
| Kristina Jäger | Labor market integration and labor market participation of accompanying expat spouses from EU, EFTA and third countries in the cities of Zurich and Basel | Cultural Anthropology | 2024 |
| Thomas Betschart | How Transport Infrastructure Shapes Territory in Contemporary Africa | Urban Studies | 2024 |
| Ayşegül Şah Bozdoğan Iles | The Prospective Position of Asexual Bodies in Queer Theory and the Meaning of Non-Consent | Gender Studies | 2024 |
| Andrea Buhl | Images of Palliative Care in Tanzania - A Hospital-Ethnography in a Cancer Clinic in Dar es Salaam | Ethnology | 2024 |
| Muriel Degen-Koch | Doing multilocal family - Growing up in multilocal family arrangements | Sociology | 2024 |
| Sindi-Leigh McBride | The Politics and Poetics of Climate Change in South Africa and Nigeria | African Studies | 2024 |
| Julia Wartmann | How is the commitment to women's political participation in North East Syria realised in practice? | Political Science | 2024 |
| Cita Wetterich | Violence against male Refugees - Patterns, Factors and Consequences for Individuals and Communities | Gender Studies | 2024 |
| Amira Saad | Domesticating Palestinians in the West Bank, the exemplar of Salfit governorate. Eco-Politics of Settler colonialism, Development and the Palestinian Space | Urban Studies | 2023 |
| Antonia Kaiser | Behavioral aspects in the transition to low-pesticide agriculture | Sustainability research | 2023 |
| Julia Rensing | Troubling Archives: Namibian Auto/Biographical Accounts and Artistic Practices as Archival Interventions | African Studies | 2023 |
| Annika Spahn | Heteronormative Violence in Knowledge Production and Treatment Practices in Sexual Medicine | Sociology | 2023 |
| Annika Thym | Power and Critique: An Investigation of Critical (Self-)Reflections of Men in Leadership Positions in the Financial Sector | Gender studies | 2023 |
| Dina Bolokan | Everyday Coloniality. The Political Economy of Labor Migration within the Agricultural Sector in Europe | Sociology | 2023 |
| Andrea Gerber | Didactic-methodical practices in the context of diversity at Swiss universities of applied sciences from the perspective of university lecturers in the focus of an intersectional analysis | Educational Sciences | 2023 |
| Adam Hearn | Energy Governance for a Fair Transition | Sustainability research | 2023 |
| Abaas Karim | Kurdish nationalist movements, state-building processes and post-nationalism | Middle East Studies | 2023 |
| Joel Laszlo | Post-Ottoman Cities in Focus, Visual Approaches to Comparative Lifeworld Research in Yugoslavia and Turkey, 1920s and 1930s | Middle Eastern Studies | 2023 |
| Marta Rudnicka | Tastescapes in Ghana. Eating, tasting and culinary practice in northern Ghana | Ethnology | 2023 |
| Emily Schultz | The Capability Approach as the normative foundation of Sustainable Development | Sustainability research | 2023 |
| Ernest Sewordor | Race, Infrastructure, and the Evolution of Gold-mining Hinterlands in South-western Gold Coast (Ghana), c. 1900-1957 | Urban Studies | 2023 |
| Michael Tschäni | Participation, Democracy and Sustainability in Urban Governance | Sustainability Research | 2023 |
| Oliver Huwyler | Parliamentarians and Interest Groups: Drivers and Consequences of Collaboration | Political Science | 2022 |
| Laura Eigenmann | From the Margins to a Mission: How the EU became a Promotor of LGBTI Rights | Gender Studies | 2022 |
| Nadine Sarfert | Articulations of young people in youth welfare in the struggle for hegemonic orders | Gender Studies | 2022 |
| Maurits Heumann | Forms of the new authoritarianism in Germany and Switzerland | Sociology | 2022 |
| Mamane Tassiou Amadou | Dynamics of Youths Social Spaces in the City of Zinder, Niger Republic | Ethnology | 2022 |
| Oliver Fink | Emotions and Emotion Regulation in Intractable Conflict | Political Science | 2022 |
| Fleur Weibel | "We are getting married!". A sociological-gender-theoretical analysis of marriage practices | Sociology | 2022 |
| Silvia Balzan | Socio-spatial Alternatives in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique Amâncio (Pancho) Guedes and the Protestant Missions | Ethnology | 2022 |
| Giulia Scotto | Oil Infrastructure and decolonization: ENI's "African Scheme" | Urban Studies | 2022 |
| Malte Flachmeyer | The Legitimacy of Monetary Policy in the Euro Crisis | Sociology | 2022 |
| Nils Kapferer | Perception of and access to justice - a queer perspective | Jurisprudence | 2021 |
| Thomas Volk | Turkey's Self-Perception in the Middle East: 1983-2002 | Middle East Studies | 2021 |
| Claudia Wilopo | "Illegality" in Switzerland: Citizenship Practices of Rejected Asylum Seekers | Cultural Studies | 2021 |
| Ulrike Lühe | Knowledge production and transitional justice in Mozambique | Political Science | 2021 |
| Haddy Sarr | Narratives of Identity, Multi-Sited Biographies, and Transnational Life-Modes of Highly Qualified Migrants. Senegambia Migrants in Switzerland and Swiss Migrants in Senegambia | Cultural Studies | 2021 |
| Hélène Oberlé | Narrative Identities, Multi-local Biographies and Transnational Life-Modes of Highly Qualified Migrants: Swiss women in Israel and Isarelis in Switzerland | Cultural Studies | 2021 |
| Theresa Gehringer | The Linkage of Corporate Philanthropy to Corporate Social Responsibility and the Social Embeddedness of Companies | Center for Philanthropy Studies (CEPS) | 2021 |
| Thiemo Strutzenberger | Use of Freud. Aspects of femininity, homosexuality, colonialism and heredity in classical psychoanalysis. | Gender Studies | 2021 |
| Melanie Nussbaumer | Self-evident - and yet controversial. How organizations legitimize themselves with regard to gender equality. | Sociology | 2021 |
| Shabih Zaidi | Globally Mobile Intellectual Capital: Changing Career and Family Biographies | Cultural Studies | 2020 |
| Natalie Tarr | Interpreting the Administration: Burkina Faso's Courts in Translation | African Studies | 2020 |
| Anna Bloom Christen | Walking Together - Perils of Participation in Anthropology and Philosophy of Action. A Case Study in Post-Apartheid South Africa. | Anthropology | 2020 |
| Maren Larsen | Worlding Home: Peacekeepers, Camp Space, and Urbanity in Goma, DRC. | Urban Studies | 2020 |
| Jacob Geuder | Images of Movements: Video-activist Visions of Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro | Urban Studies | 2020 |
| Julia Palmiano Federer | Legitimacy and norm diffusion in international peace mediation: the case of NGO mediators in South East Asia | Political Science | 2020 |
| Stefan Ragaz | Concepts of religion in Russian discourses on the Orient. A study of science, literature and travelogues from 1804 to 1855. | Religious Studies | 2020 |
| Owusuaa Adwoa Bobie | Rebranding Africa, Reclothing Africa: The Role of Emerging Designers in the Production of Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Lagos | Sociology | 2020 |
| Angela Bhend-Schaffner | Triumph of modernity. Jewish founders of department stores in Switzerland, 1890-1945 | Cultural Anthropology | 2020 |
| Jin Ding | China in Africa: Perspectives on development and emergence | African Studies | 2020 |
| Benedikt Hassler | Careers of reintegration. An investigation of the importance of workplace reintegration for people after a temporary incapacity to work | Sociology | 2020 |
| Linda Mülli | Rituals in an International Work Environment: An Anthropological Research Study on Cross-cultural Relations and Interactions in United Nations Affiliated Organizations in Geneva and Vienna | Cultural Anthropology | 2020 |
| Peter Oderinde | The role of Internet in migrants' Christianity: A case study of Nigerian Pentecostal churches in Switzerland | African Studies | 2020 |
| Jamie Pring | Are mediators norm entrepreneurs? The role of the mediators of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in the South Sudan Peace Process (2013-2015) | Political Science | 2020 |
| Penghui Shi | Early job insecurity and later labor market outcomes. A cross-national employer study | Sociology | 2020 |
| Sandra Staudacher | Health and Care of Elderly: "Children may help, Insha'Allah!" Ageing, Agency and Health in the City of Zanzibar, Tanzania | Ethnology | 2019 |
| Christina Besmer | Making neighborhood and neighborhood. An urban ethnographic study in Basel on the (re)production of local spaces and socialities | Cultural Anthropology | 2019 |
| Aldina Camenisch | Swiss Migrant Professionals in China: Middling Migration between Privilege and Marginality | Cultural Anthropology | 2019 |
| Mario Cavallaro | Identity constructions and urban mythographies of five Mediterranean cities | Cultural Anthropology | 2019 |
| Sergio Gemperle | Anti-corruption Agencies in Statebuilding: A Critical Perspective on the Legitimation of Fragile and Conflict-Affected States | Political Science | 2019 |
| Karin Hostettler | Think(ing) Space Human. Critique, self-affirmation and othering in Immanuel Kant's thinking of expediency | Gender Studies | 2019 |
| Vera Kämpfen | The integration of sustainability in cantonal administrations in Switzerland | Sustainability research | 2019 |
| Daniel Kunzelmann | Digital transformation of democracy? Cultural-technical transformations of local politics in three European societies | Cultural anthropology | 2019 |
| Anne Laube | Leading violent lives : on everyday life and its organization in the Lord's Resistance Army | Sociology | 2019 |
| Simon Mugier | Economic growth and the social question. On the sociological significance of Hans Christoph Binswanger's economic theory | Sociology | 2019 |
| Deborah Mühlebach | The Politics of Meaning - A Non-Ideal Approach to Verbal Derogation | Phiolosophy | 2019 |
| Christophe Roulin | The self in need of help | Sociology | 2019 |
| Aïdas Sanogo | That's The Way It Is". Urban Land Governance in Boukaé, Côte d'Ivoire | Ethnology | 2019 |
| Amina Trevisa | Depression and biography. Experiences of illness in migration. Latin American women in Switzerland | Sociology | 2019 |
| Franziska Schutzbach | Demographic crisis scenarios and the regulation of reproduction | Gender studies | 2019 |
| Andrea Adamasie | Dynamics of Assertive Labour Movementism in Ethiopia: Organized Labour, Unrest and Wages in a Socio-Historical Perspective | Africa Studies | 2018 |
| Lena Berger | The relationship between business and society: Towards a context- and culture-sensitive approach for the21st century | Sociology | 2018 |
| Cristina Franchi | Between mobility and migration. A qualitative study on the recent Italian immigration in Basel | Sociology | 2018 |
| Jan Frece | Corporate Values - A Socio-functionalist Approach Exemplified along Corporate Sustainability Values | Sustainability Research | 2018 |
| Andreas Graf | 'We ought to care': Tracing the impact of international business and human rights norms on Swiss CSR policy | Political Science | 2018 |
| Fanny Gutsche | Switzerland at your Finger Tips. Swiss foreign radio in contact with its audience 1935-65: (Trans-)national identity constructions in the field of tension between user participation and instit | Cultural anthropology | 2018 |
| Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund | The New Old Urbanites. Care and Transnational Aging in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Ethnology | 2018 |
| Uta Karrer | Ambiguous Poland: Discourses on Polish "naive art" | Ethnology | 2018 |
| Anna Laube-Härtel | Organization of violence in the actions of the LRA | Sociology | 2018 |
| Susann Ludwig | La chance: An Ethnography. University Graduates Making Sense of Uncertainty in Bamako, Mali | African Studies | 2018 |
| Ecaterina Elena Matoi | Challenges of State-Building in Iraq: The Case of the Iraqi Army in Post-Saddam Era | Near & Middle Eastern Studies | 2018 |
| Laure Sandoz | Intermediaries, Channels and Privileges: A Journey into the Mobility of the "Highly Skilled" towards Switzerland | Cultural Anthropology | 2018 |
| Goin Lou Tina Tra | Gouvernance des ressources agro-pastorales et conflits entre éleveurs et agriculteurs à Tienko, Nord de la Côte d'Ivoire | Ethnology | 2018 |
| Julia Thyroff | Appropriation in a historical exhibition. An inventory of elements of historical thinking among visitors to the exhibition '14/18. Switzerland and the Great War' | Educational science (extra-departmental) | 2018 |
| Livia Boscardin | Sustainable exploitation. The political ecology of Livestock Revolution | Sociology | 2017 |
| Julia Büchele | Expat Spouses in Kampala, Uganda: An Ethnography of Migration form the Global North | Sociology | 2017 |
| Patricia Jäggi | The Noisiness of the Alps/Alpenrauschen international. Switzerland's foreign radio between auditory cultural mediation (1950-1975) and the susceptibility of a global medium to interference | Cultural Anthropology | 2017 |
| James Merron | Pandora's Trouble: Trust, information and restoration in a World Heritage Site South Africa | African Studies | 2017 |
| Anna Vakalis | Tanzimat in the Province: Nationalist Sedition (Fesat), Banditry (Eskiya) and Local Councils in the Ottoman Southern Balkans (1840s to 1860s) | Near & Middle Eastern Studies | 2017 |
| Stefan Bächthold | Managed pacification. Aid, peacebuilding, and the focus on results in Myanmar's transition | Political Science | 2016 |
| Julie Bernath | Resistances to Transitional Justice at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia | Political Science | 2016 |
| Bobby Luthra Sinha | Micro Social Movements in India and South Africa: Of Twin Imaginations and Layered Discursivities | African Studies | 2016 |
| Yv Elvin Nay | Feeling Family? - Queer relationality and temporality | Sociology | 2016 |
| Joschka Philipps | Crystallizing Contention. A cumulative dissertation on youth, politics, and urban violence in Conakry, Kampala, and beyond | Sociology | 2016 |
| Posluschny-Treuner Myra | Understanding foreign large-scale agricultural investments in Ethiopia | Political Science | 2016 |
| Katrin Sontag | Movements of Entrepreneurs of Born Global Startups. An Ethnographic Study of Migration of the Highly Qualified | Cultural Anthropology | 2016 |
| Tibaijuka Albert | Multinational Mines and Communities of Place. Revisiting Stakeholder Dialogue from Geita Tanzania | African Studies | 2016 |
| Yenen Arslan Alp | The Young Turk Aftermath: Making Sense of Transnational Contentious Politics at the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922 | Near & Middle Eastern Studies | 2016 |
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