Associated Projects

Postdoc: Dr. Christoph Dejung (History)
Project title: Netzwerke des Vertrauens. Sozial- und kulturgeschichtliche Grundlagen des Welthandels am Beispiel der Handelsfirma Gebrüder Volkart, 1851-1999
Responsible advisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Osterhammel (Universität Konstanz)

Doctoral student: Sara Elmer, M.A. (History)
Project title: The Making of a "Development Caste". A Social History of Development Initatives in Nepal (c. 1935-1990)
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné (ETH Zürich)

Postdoc: Dr. Judith Fröhlich (Japanese Studies)
Project title: National Identity and the Perception of the West in Nineteenth-Cenury Japan
Responsible participating professor: Prof. Dr. Jörg Fisch (Universität Zürich)

Doctoral student: Andreas Isler, lic.phil. (Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Project title: Das Islambild in frühen europäischen Drucken
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. em. Michael Oppitz (Völkerkundemuseum Zürich)

Postdoc: Dr. Juliane Schiel (History)
Project title: Godly creature or human ware? Christian slaves in Venice (14th - 16th centuries)

Doctoral student: Dr. des. Daniela Tan
Project title: ZwischenZonen: Lokalisierungsprozesse im Werk von Ōba Minako
Thesis supervisor: N.N. (Universität Zürich)