Chair of Modern History | PhD Projects

Ongoing Dissertations

• Ruby Ellis, The Dress of Aged Poor Women in England and Wales, 1870–1940 [University of Heidelberg, supervisor]
   
• Albert Loran, ‘The fleet of the Future‘ – Eisenschiffbau und technische Expertise, c. 1860–1914 [University of Heidelberg, supervisor]
   
• Ronja Hochstrat, Wallfahrten und die deutsch-niederländischen Beziehungen am Niederrhein 1933-1945 [University of Heidelberg, supervisor]
   
• Lea Beiermann, Advancing Microscopy: New Media and Citizen Microscopists in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America [Universiteit Maastricht, co-supervisor]
   
• Timo Holste, Umkämpfter Internationalismus. Die transnationalen Verflechtungen zwischen dem Boy-Scouts International Bureau, der Reichsjugendführung und den „parafaschistischen“ Staatsjugendorganisationen in Europa und Ostasien 1919–1946 [University of Heidelberg, co-supervisor]
   
• Christiane Hoth, “Medicina fronteriza: Prácticas medicinales y circulación de saberes en el sur de Chile (1883-1939)” [University of Eichstätt, co-supervisor]
   
• Sandra Miehlbradt, Die 'wissenschaftliche Urbanisation' Argentiniens - Der Fall Hermann Burmeister [Wissenschaftszentrum der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften - Leopoldina; co-supervisor]

Completed Dissertations

• Agnes Gehbald, Print Culture and the Book Market in Late Colonial Peru (1763-1821) [University of Cologne /University of Cambridge, supervisor].
  The dissertation was completed in May 2020. Agnes Gehbald has been working as a research assitant at the University of Bern since June 2021.
   
• Caterina Mantilla Oliveros, Movilidad, cimarronaje y territorio. Arqueología histórica en los Montes de Maria, 1655-1820 [Universität zu Köln, supervisor].
  The dissertation was completed in December 2020. Since April 2021, Caterina Mantilla is teaching at the Universidad Surcolombiana in Columbia.
   
•  Justus Hillebrand, To Know the Land with Hands and Minds: How Farmers and Scientists Made Rural Modernities in New England and Westphalia, 1840-1914 [University of Maine / University of Köln, supervisor as part of a binational PhD/cotutelle de thèse].
  The dissertation was completed in July 2021.
   
• Daniela Serra, De la naturaleza a la vitrina. Claudio Gay, la práctica naturalista en Chile y la formación del Gabinete de Historia Natural de Santiago (1800–1843) [Universidad de Chile, co-supervisor].
  The dissertation was completed in August 2019. Daniela Serra works today in the Chilean Ministry of Culture, Department of Cultural Heritage (Subsecretaría del Patrimonio Cultural). 
   
• Miguel Rosas Buendía, Mariano de Rivero y un diálogo tecnológico con el mundo andino [Brown University, co-supervisor].
  The dissertation was completed in May 2019. Miguel Rosas Buendía now teaches at the Georgia Tech University.
   
• Melina Teubner, A arte de cozinhar. Sklavenschiffköche, Ernährung und Diaspora im südlichen Atlantik (c. 1800 – 1870) [University of Cologne, co-supervisor].
  The dissertation was completed in December 2018 abgeschlossen. Melina Teubner now works as a research assistant at the University of Bern.
   
• Valeska Díaz Soto, Las danzas tradicionales: Mecanismos de formalización de la tradición popular en Chile: 1900-1990 [Universiy of Bonn, co-supervisor].
  The dissertation was completed in May 2019.
   
• Ricardo Castellón, Familia y movilidad en el pacífico centroamericano. San Salvador y Sonsonate. Siglo XVIII [University of Cologne, co-supervisor].
  The dissertation was completed in January 2018. Ricardo Castellón now teaches at the University of Cologne.