Doctoral Programs
Primary Advisor
Lukas Biehler (University of Duisburg-Essen)
From the Critical University to unimut: Student Counter-Universities in West Berlin and Hamburg in the 1960s and 1980s
Jessica Dalljo (University of Halle)
“Solidarity Is a Matter of the Heart”—Constructions of Childhood and Internationalism in Children’s Magazines of the GDR
Pia Eiringhaus (University of Halle)
On Children’s Wishes and Desired Children. The History of Adoption in West Germany after 1945
Lukas Hofmann (University of Halle)
Juvenile Crime and the West German Juvenile Correctional System in the 1960s–1980s
Tim-Luca Jancke
Magic and the Elite. Writers’ Speeches at High School Graduation Ceremonies as Rites of Passage in the Context of a Reunified Society
Anne Otto (University of Halle)
School and Democracy in the Weimar Republic
Irene Ramírez (Co-supervision, University of Navarra, University of Halle)
Heinrich Mertens and José Ángel Pérez-Nievas Abascal. New Concepts of Left-Wing Catholicism in Germany and Spain During the Transition to Democracy
Building the Spanish Nation with a Ball? Nation-Building and Alternative Foreign Policy through Soccer during the Franco Dictatorship
Max Schellbach (University of Cologne)
(Post-)Migrant Youth and the Transformation of Urban Youth Work: A German-British Comparison (ca. 1970 to 1989)
Co-supervision
Corinna Bittner (University of Cologne)
Memories of Inmates and Prisoners in the Emsland Camps in Both German States
On the social perception of non-family daycare for children under three years of age in Germany since 1970
Linda Fleck (Dresden University of Technology)
Teachers as agents of ideological indoctrination. Teacher training at the Technical University of Dresden, 1924–1946
Paul Grimm (Cologne)
Welfare and Democracy. The Second Founding of the Workers’ Welfare Association and the Role of Independent Welfare Organizations in the West German Welfare State (1945–1967)
The practice of vocational rehabilitation for disabled youth and adults in the Federal Republic of Germany (1969–1990)
Knybba, Sarah (University of Magdeburg)
Therapy or Violence? Early Physiotherapy Treatments, Especially Vojta Therapy, in the Federal Republic and the GDR (1970s to 1990s)