Supervision (Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné)

Completed Habilitations

Stephan Scheuzger, "Wahrheitskommissionen: Nationale Vergangenheits- und Geschichtspolitik im Kontext der Globalisierung", ETH Zürich, 2015.

Completed Habilitations (second supervision, external)

Maria Framke, “South Asian Humanitarianism” (Erstgutachterin: Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Hirschhausen, Universität Rostock), 2023.

Julia Hauser, «An Entangled Histor of Vegetarianism», (Erstgutachterin: Prof. Dr. Hubertus Büschel, Universität Kassel), 2021.

Tanja Bührer, "Intercultural Diplomacy and Empire in the Age of Revolution: French, British and Asian Intermediaries at the Court of Hyderabad" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Windler, University of Bern).

Clemens Six, "The ‚construction’ of religious pluralism and social order in early postcolonial states: India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore" (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Gerlach, University of Berne), University of Berne, 2014.

Patrick Kupper, "Wildnis schaffen: Eine transnationale Geschichte des Schweizerischen Nationalparks" (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. David Gugerli, ETH Zürich), ETH Zürich, 2011.

Current Doctoral Dissertations

Claire Blaser, M.A., "A global biography: Frieda Hauswirth Das (1886-​1974) between Switzerland, California, and India".

Monique Ligtenberg, M.A., "Medicine, Masculinities, and Colonial Warfare: German-​speaking Physicians and Trans-​imperial Knowledge Production in the Dutch East Indies, c. 1873-1914".

Josephine Selander, "Making mindfulness: Narrating, Mediating, Medicalizing transcultural emotion-knowledge, 1920 – 2000".

Zhi Qing Denise Lim, M.A., Behaving badly: ‘European deviance’ in colonial Singapore, c. 1890-1940”.

Current Doctoral Dissertations (second supervision, external)

Sarah Khayati, "'Islamistische Umtriebe'? The encounter of Middle Easterners with and their experience in Switzerland from the 1920s to the 1940s" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowski, University of Basel).

Sarbajit Mitra, “Intoxicants and Hindu Subject Formation in Nineteenth-Century Bengal”; " (Erstgutachterin: Dr Eleanor Newbigin, SOAS, University of London)

Completed Doctoral Dissertations

Philipp, Krauer, M.A., "Swiss 'Tools of Empire'. A transnational history of mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies, 1814–1914", 2021.

Sujeet George, " Antecedents of the Green Revolution: Agricultural Science in British India (c. 1870-1950)", 2021.

Soni Soni, M.A., "Child 'Rescue Missions'. The Case of Orphans in Colonial North India, 1860-1947", 2020.

Joanna Simonow, M.A. M.A., "After the 'Late Victorian Holocausts': Transnational Responses to Famines and Malnutrition in Incia, c. 1900-1955", 2019.

Andreas Greiner, M.A., "Tensions of Transport: Human Porterage and State Formation in Colonial East Africa, c. 1890-1914", 2019.

Michael Brunner, M.A., "Bringing Credit to the Community and the Country': Politics of Knowledge and Identity in the Khalsa College, Amritsar (c. 1890-1950)”, 2019.

Naina Manjrekar, "'To Shake Hands Across the Ocean': the Political Lives of South Asian Seafarers, c. 1918-1946" (Supervisor Dr. Shabnum Tejani, SOAS, University of London), 2018.

Souvik Naha, M.A., "Sport and the Urban Public Sphere: Cricket and Culture in Clacutta, 1950-2012", 2017.

Paromita Das Gupta, M.A., "Mimicry, Authenticity, and Political Emancipation: Controversial Assimilation Discourses in Colonial India (ca. 1860-1930). The Hybrid Babu vs the Authentic Indian", 2017.

Luzia Savary, M.A., "Evolution, Eugenics and Race Theories in Colonial India, 1860-1930", ETH Zürich, 2016.

Sönke Bauck, "Nüchterne Staatsbürger für junge Nationen: Antialkoholaktivismus in Argentinien und Uruguay (1876-1933)", ETH Zürich, 2016.

Nikolay Kamenov, „Sober Contemporaries for a Sober Future: The World of Temperance in Bulgaria, 1890-1940“, ETH Zürich, 2015.

Robert Kramm-Masaoka, „Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Veneral Disease and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952“, ETH Zürich, 2015.

Francesco Spöring, "Mission und Sozialhygiene: Schweizer Anti-Alkohol-Aktivismus im Kontext von Internationalismus und Kolonialismus", ETH Zürich, 2014.

Sara Elmer, „Regionale und globale Einflüsse auf die Zivilgesellschaft in Nepal, ca. 1930-2000“, ETH Zürich, 2014

Carolien Stolte, “Competing concepts of Asia in Indian politics and civil society (c. 1920-1962)”, University of Leiden, 2013

Christine Whyte, "Whose slavery? The language and politics of slavery and abolition in Sierra Leone 1898-1956", ETH Zürich, 2012.

Maria Moritz, „Kulturelle Mediatoren zwischen Südasien und ‚dem Westen’: Indische Mitglieder der Theosophical Society und der Austausch von Wissen (1879-1930)“, Jacobs University Bremen, 2012.

Maria Framke, „Wahrnehmung und Aneignungen von Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus in Indien (1922-1939)“, Jacobs University Bremen, 2011.

Completed Doctoral Dissertations (second supervision, external)

Anja Suter, M.A., "Chemie zwischen Basel und Bombay. Eine transnationale Geschichte der Schweizer Chemieindustrie, 1907-1987" (Erstgutachterin: Prof. Dr. Caroline Erni, Universität Basel), 2023.

Yorim Spoelder, "Staging the Nation Beyond the Raj: Visions of Greater India, the Discourse of Civilization and Nationalist Imagination (1905-1964)" (Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin) 2020.

Lea Pfäffli, M.A., "Das Wissen, das aus der Kälte kam. Eine Verflechtungsgeschichte um 1912" (Prof. Dr. David Gugerli, ETH Zurich), 2019.  

Ravi Mehra, Civil Disobedience in Nehruvian India. Lohia, the Socialists and the Nation-wide Campaign of 1960 (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gita Dharampal-Frick, Universität Heidelberg), 2018.  

Michael Offermann, "Koloniale Modellgefängnisse. Britisch-Indien in der Zirkulation von Wissen über Strafe und Einsperrung, 1825–1892" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stephan Scheuzger, University of Bern), 2018.  

Klaas Stutje, M.A., "Behind the Banner of Unity. Nationalism and Anticolonialism among Indonesian Students in Europe, 1917-1931" (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. J.T. Leerssen, University of Amsterdam), University of Amsterdam, 2016.  

Janine Wilhelm, “The Ganges a Common Sewer? The Advance of Sewerage Technology and the Question of River Pollution in British India, c. 1890-1930” (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Mann, Humboldth-University Berlin), HU Berlin, 2015.  

An Lac Truong Dinh, lic. phil., „Entwicklungszusammenarbeit Schweiz-Asien, 1945-2000“ (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Lengwiler Frey, University of Basle), University of Basle, 2015.  

Stefan Hübner, "Building Asian Nations through Sports Events (1913-1974): The Far Eastern Championship Games, the Western Asiatic Games and the Early Asian Games", (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Frey, Jacobs University Bremen), Jacobs University Bremen, 2014.  

Bernhard Schär, „Tropenliebe. Basler Naturforscher, holländische Imperialisten und die „Entdeckung“ von Celebes um 1900“, (First Supervisor: Prof. Brigitte Studer, University of Berne), University of Berne, 2013.  

Esther Möller, „Die französischen Schulen im Libanon 1909-1943; Orte der Zivilisierungsmission?“, (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Frey, Jacobs University Bremen), Jacobs University Bremen, 2010.