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Historisches Seminar

Dissertations

Ph.D Thesis (Supervisor)

  1. Ashoka Vardhan Manchala, "Extracting Coal in Hyderabad: Making of a Political and Economic Resource, c. 1871-1948"
  2. Camille Schneiter, "The Creatures of the Anthropocene. A Bioconstitutional History of Neobiota in Switzerland."

Ph.D. Thesis (Co-Supervision)

  1. Henrik Jochum, "One Health in Geflügelstall." UZH, Zürich (Ongoing)
  2. Tatiana Carbonell, "Climate Historiographies for a Pastoral Rhône Valley: Engineers, Scientists, and Travelers’ Reports on Nineteenth Century Environmental Knowledge, ETH Zürich" (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. Nikhil Dharan, "Colonial Alchemies: Chemists, Chemical Knowledge, and Infrastructure in South India, History and Sociology of Science," University of Pennsylvania. (ongoing)
  4. Katherine Sinclair, “Frontiers of Sovereignty: An Environmental History of Law, Science, and Profit in the French Kerguelen Islands” Rutgers University. (ongoing)

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)