Affolter, Joëlle, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies |
Islamic Movements in Tunisia in Transition |
2012–2013 |
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RF3 |
Alawneh, Yaser G., M.A. |
doctoral student |
Legal Studies |
Implementation and Accountability of State of Palestine as a Non-Member Observer State at the United Nations under the International Human Rights Treaties: A Comparative Study of EU and Palestine |
2017–2017 |
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RF3 |
Alms, Eric, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Geography |
A Political Ecology of Nature Conservation and Sustainable Tourism in Chinese Conservation Areas |
2011–2014 |
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RF2 |
Alnaouq, Motaz, LL.M. Human Rights |
doctoral student |
Legal Studies |
The Right to Life in the Palestinian Society: The Case of the Death Penalty from Comparative Human Rights Perspective |
2011–2014 |
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RF3 |
Amsler, Monika, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Religious Studies |
Purpose and Nature of the Talmudic Medical Units in Tractates Shabbat, Pessachin, Gittin and Avodah Zara |
2013 |
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RF1 |
Arn, David, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies |
From Crime to Illness: Shifts in the Iranian Press Discourse on Drugs (1995–2000) |
2006–2009 |
doctorate |
2010 |
RF3 |
Ateş, Şevket, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies |
Philosophy in the Turkish Republic: Processes of Philosophical Reception in the Context of Cultural Transformation |
2006–2009 |
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RF1 |
Bentz, Anne-Sophie, Dr. |
postdoc |
Political Science |
India’s Refugee Policies |
2011–2012 |
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RF3 |
Berriane, Yasmine, Dr. |
senior teaching and research assistant |
Political Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies |
Negotiating Land Rights: Gender, Law and Political Change in Morocco |
2013–2017 |
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RF3 |
Bofinger, Martina, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Indian Studies |
Commercial Hindi Movies and their Influence on Hindi as a National Language: A Juxtaposition of Hindi and English |
2010–2011 |
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RF2 |
Böhler, Natalie, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Film Studies |
Made in Thailand: Thainess, Performance and Narration in Contemporary Thai Cinema |
2006–2009 |
doctorate |
2010 |
RF2 |
Bollo, Sofia, M.A. |
doctoral student |
East Asian Art History |
Reframing Ancient China: A Multi-perspective Study on Neolithic Pottery Displays in Modern Chinese Museums |
2013–2017 |
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RF2 |
Boulos, Samir, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies |
European-Protestant Missionary Institutions in Egypt: Locations of Cultural Entanglement (1900–1956) |
2008–2011 |
doctorate |
2012 |
RF2 |
Brandenburg, Ulrich, Dr., Dipl.-Reg.Wiss. |
doctoral student |
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies |
Japan and Islam 1890–1914: Between Global Communication and Pan-Asianist Movement |
2011–2014 |
doctorate |
2023 |
RF3 |
Brozzo, Patrick, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Legal Studies |
Marriage in Islamic and Jewish Law: Cultural Diversity and Marital Law |
2008–2011 |
doctorate |
2015 |
RF3 |
Brütsch, Christian, Dr. |
postdoc |
Political Science |
Transnational Transfer Agents, Labour Rights and Social Policy Reforms in China |
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RF3 |
Chammartin, Catherine, Dr.iur., lic.rer.pol. |
doctoral student |
Legal Studies |
State-Owned Banks: A Comparative Analysis of State-Owned Banks in China and Switzerland |
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doctorate |
2009 |
RF3 |
Coppens, Laura, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Social and Cultural Anthropology |
Film Activism in Contemporary Indonesia: Queer Autoethnography, Film Festival Politics, and the Subversion of Heteronormativity |
2009–2012 |
doctorate |
2014 |
RF2 |
Delfs, Tobias, M.A. |
doctoral student |
History |
Lifeworlds of Protestant Missionaries in India (1770–1813) |
2009–2010 |
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RF2 |
Eisner, Rivka, Dr. |
postdoc |
Performance Studies |
Performance Avant-Gardes: Memory Cultures, Contemporary Arts, and Social Change in Vietnam |
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RF2 |
Fichtner-Egloff, Jeanne, Dr. |
doctoral student |
East Asian Art History |
Kindai bijutsu: The Reception of Western Concepts of Art in Japan around the Year 1900 |
2011–2014 |
doctorate |
2017 |
RF2 |
Ganser, Elisa, Dr. |
postdoc |
Indian Studies |
The Place of Art in Indian Religious Thought: On the Soteriological Value of Acting, Singing and Dancing in Abhinavagupta’s Work and Beyond |
2014–2015 |
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RF1 |
Hamid, Amir, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies |
On Bodies, Books and Hypertext: Mediating Islamic Norms of Gender and Religious Violence in the Transnational Arab Public Sphere |
2010–2013 |
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RF3 |
Hetmanczyk, Philipp, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Religious Studies |
Begräbnispraxis in China zwischen „Wirtschaftsrationalität“ und „Verschwendung“: Ökonomische Bewertungen von Religion im Kontext von Religionspolitik und Religionstheorie |
2010–2013 |
doctorate |
2016 |
RF1 |
Hirt, Alfred, Dr. |
postdoc |
History |
Zwischen Orient und Okzident: Die kulturelle Transformation Phönikiens (1000 v.Chr. – 500 n.Chr.) |
2008–2009 |
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RF2 |
Hollenbach, Pia, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Geography |
The Paradox of Good Intentions: The Biography of Private Giving in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka |
2008–2011 |
doctorate |
2014 |
RF3 |
Holm, Fynn, M.A. |
doctoral student |
History |
Nation-building and Whaling in Northeast Japan |
2015 |
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RF3 |
Hördegen, Zhanna, Dr. |
postdoc |
Legal Studies |
Legal and Political Integration in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) |
2010–2013 |
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RF3 |
Hotz, Sandra, Dr. |
postdoc |
Legal Studies |
Immorality and Private Autonomy in Contract Law: A Comparative Research Project to Balance Freedom of Contract and Control in Europe and Japan Exemplified by Contracts Regarding Prostitution, Surrogate Motherhood and Marriage |
2006–2009 |
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RF3 |
Indraccolo, Lisa, Dr. |
postdoc |
Chinese Studies |
Debate Arena: Argumentation and Persuasion in Warring States Philosophical Discourse |
2011–2014 |
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RF1 |
Isabaeva, Eliza, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Social and Cultural Anthropology |
Social Citizenship from Below and the Making of State in Kyrgyzstan: Migrants Making a Living in the Squatter Settlements of Bishkek |
2011–2014 |
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RF3 |
Jaguścik, Justyna, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Chinese Studies |
Literary Body Discourses: Corporeality, Gender and Class Difference in Contemporary Chinese Women’s Poetry and Fiction |
2009–2012 |
doctorate |
2014 |
RF2 |
Jain, Rohit, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Social and Cultural Anthropology |
Between Assimilation, Exoticism and Global Indian Modernity: Transnational Subject-Making of ‚Second Generation Indians’ from Switzerland |
2007–2010 |
doctorate |
2014 |
RF2 |
Kelegama, Thiruni, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Geography |
Anxious Integration: Development in Sri Lanka’s Post-War Frontier |
2013–2016 |
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RF3 |
Khawari, Aliya, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Political Science |
The Political Economy of Microfinance |
2009–2011 |
doctorate |
2015 |
RF3 |
Kosmatopoulos, Nikolas, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Social and Cultural Anthropology |
Pacifying Lebanon: Violence, Power and Expertise in the Middle East |
2007–2010 |
doctorate |
2012 |
RF3 |
Krajnc, Rita, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Indian Studies |
Freedom, Individuality, and the Establishment of a Female Artist’s Existence in Mrdula Garg’s Hindi Novel ‘Cittakobra’ (1979) |
2008–2011 |
doctorate |
2015 |
RF2 |
Kreil, Aymon, Dr. |
postdoc |
Anthropology |
Locating Trust in Cairo: Security, State, and Neighbourhood Politics |
2013–2015 |
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RF3 |
Lanckau, Jörg, Prof. Dr. |
postdoc |
Theology |
Constructions and Transformations of Judaism in the Hellenistic Period |
2008–2011 |
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RF2 |
Lange, Elena, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Japanese Studies |
The Overcoming of the Subject: Nishida Kitarōs Way to Ideology |
2009–2010 |
doctorate |
2011 |
RF1 |
Lasater, Phillip, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Theology |
The Facets of Fear: Fear of God in Exilic and Post-Exilic Contexts |
2011–2014 |
doctorate |
2017 |
RF1 |
Leach, Robert, Dr. |
postdoc |
Indian Studies |
Taxomies of Religious and Philosophical Knowledge in Classical Sanskrit Literature |
2012–2014 |
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RF1 |
Leung, Virginia Yee-Yarn, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Chinese Studies |
Coming of Age in Hong Kong: A Study of a Colonial Literary Field in the 1950s |
2012–2013 |
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RF2 |
Linggi, Dominik, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Sociology |
Trust in Chinese Society: A Critical Contribution to Cross-cultural Social Research |
2006–2009 |
doctorate |
2010 |
RF3 |
Löschke, Ayaka, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Japanese Studies |
Advocacy of the Japanese Civil Society after Fukushima: The “National Network of Parents to Protect Children from Radiation” as a Case Study |
2013–2016 |
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RF3 |
Lukicheva, Polina, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Chinese Studies |
The Concepts of Space and Methods of Composition in the Chinese Literati’ Theories of Art in the Seventeenth Century |
2014–2016 |
doctorate |
2022 |
RF1 |
Maduz, Linda, Dr. des. |
doctoral student |
Political Science |
Protest during Regime Change: Comparing Three Democratizing Countries in (South-) East Asia, 1985–2005 |
2009–2012 |
doctorate |
2015 |
RF3 |
Manea, Elham, PD Dr. |
postdoc |
Political Science |
The Arab State and Women’s Rights: The Trap of the Transitional State |
2006–2009 |
habilitation |
2010 |
RF3 |
Marseglia, Nathalie, lic.phil. |
doctoral student |
Social and Cultural Anthropology |
Lebende Staatsschätze: Über den Wert handwerklichen Schaffens am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts, mit Fokus auf die japanische Keramik |
2014–2016 |
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RF2 |
Mittmann, Christoph, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Japanese Studies |
Yamagata Bantō’s Yume no shiro: An Attempt to Reorganize the Knowledge Available to Japan |
2013 |
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RF1 |
Müller, Ralf, Dr. |
postdoc |
Japanese Studies |
Zen and Japanese Philosophy: Dōgen’s Importance to the Kyōto School |
2010–2011 |
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RF1 |
Müller, Simone, PD Dr. |
postdoc |
Japanese Studies |
Writers as Intellectuals in Postwar Japan (1945–1972) in the Light of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Concept of Engagement |
2006–2009 |
habilitation |
2012 |
RF1 |
Müller, Urs , Dr. |
postdoc |
Geography |
Overcoming the Nature-Culture Dualism?: Notions of Nature and Nature Protection in Model Regions for Integrated “Nature Conservation“ |
2007–2009 |
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RF2 |
Nef-Saluz, Claudia, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Social and Cultural Anthropology |
Living for the Caliphate: Hizbut Tahrir Student Activism in Indonesia |
2007–2011 |
doctorate |
2012 |
RF2 |
Ohm, Britta, Dr. |
postdoc |
Social and Cultural Anthropology |
The Meaning of Turkey: Negotiations of the Secular and the Islamic on Commercial Turkish Television |
2008–2009 |
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RF2 |
Rageth, Nina, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Religious Studies |
Medicine and Religion: ‘Traditional Tamil Medicine‘ in the Context of Religious Institutions |
2014–2017 |
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RF3 |
Rest, Matthäus, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Social and Cultural Anthropology |
Water Power: Discourses on Modernity and Development around the Nepalese Arun-3 Hydropower Project |
2009–2012 |
doctorate |
2014 |
RF3 |
Schäfer, Fabian, Prof. Dr. |
senior teaching and research assistant |
Japanese Studies |
Medium as Mediation: Media and Media Theory in Japan, 1920–2012 |
2012–2013 |
habilitation |
2015 |
RF3 |
Schneider, Marcel, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Chinese Studies |
Transition through Tradition: The Battle for Defensable Orders at the Dawn of Imperial China |
2016–2017 |
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RF1 |
Seidel, Roman, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies |
The Reception of Kantian Philosophy in Iran: It’s origins and significance |
2009–2011 |
doctorate |
2012 |
RF1 |
Serbaeva, Olga, Dr. |
postdoc |
Indian Studies |
Translating the Non-Evident: “Altered States of Consciousness” in Vidyapitha Tantras and in Western Transcreations of “Tantrism” |
2007–2010 |
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RF1 |
Sievert, Henning, Dr. |
postdoc |
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies |
Libyen im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert: Wissen, Vermittlung und politische Kommunikation |
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RF2 |
Singh, Vijay, lic.iur. |
doctoral student |
Legal Studies |
Developments in Indian Copyright |
2006–2007 |
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RF3 |
Sivaganesan, Anusooya, M Law |
doctoral student |
Legal Studies |
Forced to Marry – A Human Rights’ Violation within its Euro-Asian Entanglements: Unfree Marriages from a Multi-Country Perspective Exemplified by Switzerland, Great Britain, Holland, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Turkey |
2014–2017 |
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RF2 |
Suleymanova, Dilyara, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Social and Cultural Anthropology |
Schooling the Sense of Belonging: Identity Politics and Educational Change in Post-Soviet Tatarstan |
2009–2011 |
doctorate |
2013 |
RF3 |
Trakulhun, Sven, Prof. Dr. |
assistent professor |
History |
Asian Revolutions: Conceptions of political change in the Orient, 1644–1818 |
2008–2014 |
habilitation |
2012 |
RF2 |
Trüper, Henning, PD Dr. |
postdoc |
History |
The Grammar of Modernity: Inquiries into the History of 19th and early 20th Century Oriental Philology |
2009–2011 |
habilitation |
2018 |
RF2 |
Vandenreydt, Sarah, lic.phil. |
doctoral student |
Religious Studies |
Buddhism between Philosophy and Religion 1875–1900: Discourse and Social Dynamics in England as Evidenced in the Texts of F.M. Müller, H.P. Blavatsky and A.P. Sinnett |
2009–2010 |
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RF1 |
Vetrov, Viatcheslav, Dr. |
postdoc |
Chinese Studies |
Reincarnated Conceptuality: The Other Life of Western Philosophy in the Work of Hu Shi 胡適 (1891–1962) and Qian Zhongshu 錢鍾書 (1910–1998) |
2010–2013 |
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RF1 |
Vitale, Marco, PD Dr. |
doctoral student |
History |
Eparchie and Koinon in Asia Minor from the End of the Roman Republic to the Third Century AD |
2006–2009 |
doctorate |
2010 |
RF2 |
von Wyss-Giacosa, Paola, Dr. |
postdoc |
Social and Cultural Anthropology |
Pictorial Ethnography of Religion in European Publications on Asia |
2007–2010 |
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RF1 |
Weaver, James, Dr. |
postdoc |
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies |
Organising Disagreement in the Long Ninth Century: On the Use of the Term ‘iḫtilāf’ in the ʿAbbāsid Period |
2012–2013 |
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RF1 |
Weber, Ralph, Prof. Dr. |
senior teaching and research assistant |
Philosophy |
Constructions of Political Modernity in Contemporary Chinese Political Thought |
2008–2009 |
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RF1 |
Weber, Ralph, Prof. Dr. |
senior teaching and research assistant |
Philosophy |
Zur Kritik neuerer konfuzianischer Gerechtigkeitstheorien |
2008–2014 |
habilitation |
2016 |
RF1 |
Weiss, Tobias, M.A. |
doctoral student |
Japanese Studies |
“Fukushima” in Japan: Media System, Networks and Framing |
2012–2015 |
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RF3 |
Wenner, Miriam, Dr. |
doctoral student |
Geography |
Monopolising a Statehood Movement: Gorkhaland between Authoritarian Parties and “Aware Citizens” |
2010–2013 |
doctorate |
2015 |
RF2 |
Wu, Helena, M.Phil. |
doctoral student |
Chinese Studies |
(Re-)Configurations of Place, Person and Thing in Hong Kong Cinema and Literature after the Millennium |
2013–2016 |
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RF2 |
Wujastyk, Dagmar, Dr. |
postdoc |
Indian Studies |
When the Vaidya Met the Doctor: Medical Exchanges in 17th–19th Century India and the Reimagining of a Great Medical Tradition |
2011–2014 |
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RF2 |
Zangger, Andreas, Dr. |
doctoral student |
History |
Fast Money and Enduring Relationships: Swiss Business in Colonial Singapore and Sumatra, 1860–1930 |
2006–2009 |
doctorate |
2010 |
RF2 |
Zank, Dinah, M.A. |
doctoral student |
East Asian Art History |
Divine Mothers Across Borders of National Identities: Japanese-Indian Artistic Exchanges in Early Twentieth-Century Buddhist Paintings and the Reception of the British Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s Concept of ‚Spirituality’ and ‚Sensitivity’ |
2011–2014 |
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RF2 |
Zhuang, Yue, Dr. |
postdoc |
Architectural History |
Matteo Ripa’s “Views of Jehol”: Entangled Histories of 18th Century European and Chinese Landscape Representations |
2011–2013 |
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RF2 |