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Dissertation projects

Below you find a list of the dissertation projects from all three funding periods of the Collaborative Research Center (2014-2025).

  • Dissertation projects of the 1st funding period (2014-2017)

    Subproject A01: Holding Hostage

    Stefanie Riedasch
    "Interterritorial hostage taking in Ireland and Britain before the Norman Conquest"

    Dennis Theiß
    "Hostage positions in the Corpus Iuris Civilis of Emperor Justinian and in the Corpus Iuris Canonici"

    Simon Thijs
    "Obsidibus imperatis. Forms and Application of Hostage Status in the Roman Republic"

    Rebecca Valerius
    "Hostage Taking in Peace Treaties and the Uses of War in the Early Modern Period (1450-1650)"

    Subproject A02: Crusader States

    Fabian Rösch
    "Legal Construction and Noble Claim to Rule in the Kingdom of Jerusalem: the Invention of Jerusalem through Law"

    Subproject A03: Dynastic Marriage

    Philip Haas
    "Princely Marriage and Interests. Early Modern Dynastic Marriage in Contemporary Treatise Literature and Political Practice, Using the Example of Hesse-Kassel"

    Subproject A04: Collective Security

    Marie-Christin Stenzel
    "A Game of Public Safety - Comments on the British struggle for an international normative order on military interventions 1812-1822"

    Subproject A05: Security against Genocide

    Florian Danecke
    "Security through international juridification. Vespasian Pella and the Influence of Romania on the Development of International Criminal Law in the Interwar Period"

    Konstantin Rometsch
    "Beyond security, state and sanctions? Legal Circles from Eastern Europe in the 1920s to 1950s - or: How to Historicize Genocide?"

    Subproject A06: Minorities in East Central Europe

    Felix Heinert
    "Security on the Ground between Discourse and Practice and between Minorities and Majorities, Local Negotiations in the Regions of Stanisławów and Podkarpatská Rus 1919 - 1938"

    Sebastian Ramisch-Paul
    "Foreign periphery - insecurity periphery? Security Discourses on the Czechoslovak Province of Podkarpatská Rus (1918-38)"

    Ana Ivasiuc
    "The Making and Unmaking of (In)Security: Roma on the Move and Rule(s) of Law"

    Subproject B01: Public Peace 

    Marius Reusch
    "'Gartknechte' as a Public Peace Problem of the Old Empire in the 16th and Early 17th Century"

    Subproject B02: Architectural and Pictorial Conceptions of Security

    Jessica Lingert
    "Architecturally Articulated Security Claims and Security Threats in the Visual Media"

    Subproject B03: Denominational Minorities

    Swetlana Fink
    "Denominational Minorities in Poland-Lithuania as a Problem of Security"

    Christian Wenzel
    "Ruine d'estat. Security in the Debates of the French Wars of Religion 1557-1589"

    Subproject B05: International Trusteeship Administrations

    Maria Ketzmerick
    "State, Security and Violence in Cameroon. Postcolonial Perspectives on the Decolonization Process under French UN Trusteeship"

    Subproject B06: Security Export

    Hannah Broecker
    "Securitization as Hegemonic Identity. A Discourse Approach to the Construction of Security"

    Marc Chaouali
    "From the 'Defense Army' to the 'Army in Action'. The Debate on Foreign Deployments of the Bundeswehr since 1973"

    Subproject C01: Advanced Security

    Tilmann Grabbe
    "'The Sick Planet'. Popular Imaginations of Nature in the Federal Republic of the 1980s."

    Sebastian Haus-Rybicki
    "Governing a Plague. AIDS Prevention in the Federal Republic 1981-1995"

    Steffen Henne
    "The Computerization of Governance in the Federal Republic of the 1970s and 1980s. History and prehistory of data protection"

    Subproject C03: House and Street

    Marie Scheckenbach
    "House and Street Space, Construction and Representation of Security in German Residence and Imperial Cities of the 17th and 18th Century"

    Subproject C05: Political Security and Financial Market Stability

    Carola Westermeier
    "Political security and financial stability following the crisis: actors and epistemologies of financial governance"

    Subproject C06: Foreign Trade Securitization

    Simone Breimhorst
    "Export security. Germany's Return to the World Market and the 'Causa Brazil'"

  • Dissertation projects of the 2nd funding period (2018-2021)

    Subproject A01: Holding Hostage

    Katja Berndt
    "Civilian hostages in early modern conduct of war"

    Subproject A03: Dynastic Marriage

    Anja Krause
    "Queenship and Security in Early-Modern England"

    Subproject A04: Collective Security

    Alexander Koll
    "Law of Targeting in the Age of Cyberwarfare"

    Maike Krüger
    "Juridification and Institutionalization of Collective Security"

    Felix Weiß
    "The collectivization of international security in the first half of the first half of the 20th century as a result of the securitization of interstate Relations"

    Subproject A06: Minorities in East Central Europe

    Szilveszter Csernus-Lukács
    "Securing a Nation - Nationality Question and Language Policy in Southern Hungary 1860-1890"

    Tamás Székely
    "Contested Self-governance: Dilemmas of Security in Western Hungary (1867-1918)"

    Subproject A08: Administrating Transnational Health Crises

    Carolin Mezes
    "Infrastructuring Global Health Security"

    Subproject B01: Public Peace

    Johanna Müser
    "Protecting the Public Peace ('Landfrieden') in the Land Peace League: The Old Confederation as a System of Collective Security (1481-1656)"

    Subproject B03: Confessional Minorities

    Oliver Hegedüs
    "The securitization of the Protestant and Orthodox minorities in Poland-Lithuania at the end of the 18th century"

    Joel Hüsemann
    "The securitization of the Catholic minority in the England of Elizabeth I."

    Mario Šain
    "Securitization of the Serbian Orthodox Minority in the Habsburg Monarchy 1690-1740"

    Subproject B05: International Trusteeship Administrations

    Julius Heise
    "Security in UN Trusteeship Statebuilding: The Ewe and Togoland Unification Problem under French and British UN Trusteeship (1947-1960)"

    Subproject B07: "Vindicta" as a Security Issue

    Anna-Lena Wendel
    "Vindicta. Revenge as a Security Problem in Theological Discourses of the German Late Middle Ages"

    Subproject C01: Advanced Security

    Sascha Brünig
    "Nuclear Energy Futures. Energy, Society and Risk in the Federal Republic of the 1980s and early 1990s."

    Tobias Bruns
    "A History of the Security Culture of the German Empire 1871-1914"

    Subproject C03: The 'House' as Security and Gender (In-)Security

    Elisabetta Cau
    "Maria as a security factor or the reception of heavenly visitors as a visual strategy of female domestication"

    John Egle
    "House, Gender and Security. Normative Discourses 1450-1750"

    Subproject C05: Political Security and Economized Infrastructures

    Amina Nolte
    "Securitizing Infrastructure: governing through mobility and affect in Jerusalem"

    Subproject C08: Security and Empire

    Florian Neiske
    "Divided Society. Nature, Insecurity and Colonial Rule in Calcutta and Bengal, ca. 1860-1900"

    Karina Turmann
    "Between Power and Morality. Colonial medical knowledge and the "amelioration" in the British West Indies (ca. 1780 - 1830)"

    Subproject C09: Fear of Crime?

    Karsten Köhler
    "The reception of Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst (1967-1997): Audience response, contemporary audience research, and media follow-up communication."

    Nicolas De Keyser
    "Real Crime Shows in International Comparison and Historical Change"

    Subproject C10: Between Minority Protection and Securitization

    Laura Soréna Tittel
    "Outlines of a Theory of Antiziganism. Roma Minorities between Racism, Security and Imagination" 

  • Dissertation projects of the 3rd funding period (2022-2025)

    Subproject A01: Holding Hostage

    Marina Hansen
    "Hostageship in the French Wars of Religion, 1557-1629"

    Subproject A03: Dynastic marriage

    Tobias Kindel
    "Interconfessional Princely Marriages in the Early Modern Period" 

    Subproject A04: Collective security

    Farnaz Desfouli-Asl

    Subproject A06: Minorities and majorities in East Central Europe

    Aaron Blüm

    Lukas Pohl

    Kajetan Stobiecki
    "Nationalization as securitization. The Czech-German conflict in late 19th-century Pilsen"

    Subproject B01: Public Peace

    Lena Frewer
    "Public Peace ('Landfrieden') within the jurisdiction of the Imperial Courts in 16th Century Holy Roman Empire"

    Winand Tremmel
    "Modes of Territorial Defense - Mobilising Subjects as part of the Public Peace ('Landfrieden') after the Peace of Augsburg"

    Subproject C01: Advanced security

    Marcel Spannenberger
    "Security and sovereignty in European monetary policy, 1970-2000"

    Sarah Wilder-Fehl
    "(Inter)National Sovereignty and Security in the United Nations, 1945-1998"

    Subproject C05: Political security and economized infrastructures

    Roxana Ehlke
    "Financial Infrastructures in the Post-Socialist Space"

    Tim Salzer
    "Constructing A New Regime of Sight: Economic Expertise in Republican China, 1910s-1949"

    Subproject C06: Foreign trade securitization

    Philip Schulz

    Subproject C08: Security and Empire

    Philipp Horstmeier

    Thomas Szymczyk
    "Islands of fear. Jamaica and Saint-Domingue between war, autonomy and revolution in the 18th century"

    Subproject C09: Fear of crime

    Lena Karber
    "Films as a Critical Intervention: Debates about the Death Penalty in the USA and Germany"

    Natalija Köppl

    Subproject C10: Between minority protection and securitization

    Anna-Sophie Schönfelder
    "The Political Economy of Antigypsyism"

    Subproject C12: The pandemic situation

    Finn Langbein
    "Covid-19 simulation models - experimental systems and state of emergency"

    Franziska Zirker
    "Capturing the Epidemic Situation. The Politics of 'Real Time' Data in Health Emergencies"

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