Completed Projects
Doctoral Dissertations
- Josephine Selander, Making Mindfulness: Narrating, Mediatizing, Medicalizing Transcultural Emotion-Knowledge, c. 1920 – 1990, ETH Zürich, 2023.
- Monique Ligtenberg, Germanophone Physicians in the Dutch East Indies: Transimperial Histories of Medicine between Europe and Colonized Indonesia, c. 1873–1920s, ETH Zürich, 2023.
- Philipp Krauer, Colonial Mercenaries: Swiss Military Labour and the Dutch East Indies, 1848-1914, ETH Zürich, 2022.
- Sujeet George, Antecedents of the Green Revolution: Agricultural Science in British India, c. 1870–1950, ETH Zürich, 2021.
- Joanna Simonow, After the "Late Victorian HOlocausts": Transnational Responses to Famines and Malnutrition in India, c. 1900-1955, ETH Zurich, 2019.
- Andreas Greiner, Tensions of Transport: Human Porterage and State Formation in Colonial East Africa, c. 1890-1914, ETH Zurich, 2019.
- Brunner Michael, "Bringing Credit to the Community and the Country": Politics of Knowledge and Identity in the Khalsa College, Amritsar (c. 1890-1950), ETH Zürich, 2019.
- Paromita Das Gupta, Politics of Exclusion: Everyday Experiences of the Baboos in Colonial Bengal, c. 1876-1912, ETH Zurich, 2017.
- Souvik Naha, Cricket and the Making of Sporting Publics: Representation, Consumption and Popular Culture in India, 1952-2011, ETH Zurich, 2017.
- Luzia Savary, Evolution, Race and Public Spheres: The Vernacularization of Science in British India (1880-1940), ETH Zurich, 2016.
- Sönke Bauck, Nüchterne Staatsbürger für junge Nationen: Antialkoholaktivismus in Argentinien und Uruguay (1876-1933), ETH Zurich, 2016.
- Robert Kramm-Masaoka, Sanatized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952, ETH Zurich, 2015.
- Nikolay Kamenov, Sober contemporaries – the Bulgarian temperance movement, 1890-1940, ETH Zurich, 2015.
- Francesco Spöring, Mission und Sozialhygiene: Schweizer Anti-Alkohol-Aktivismus im Kontext von Internationalismus und Kolonialismus, 1886–1939, ETH Zurich, 2014.
- Sara Elmer, Regionale und globale Einflüsse auf die Zivilgesellschaft in Nepal, ca. 1930-2000, ETH Zurich, 2014.
- Christine Whyte, Whose slavery? The language and politics of slavery and abolition in Sierra Leone 1898-1956, ETH Zurich, 2012.
Sinergia
- Imitation - Assimilation - Transformation. Epistemologien, Semantiken und Praktiken der Anverwandlung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Swiss National Foundation. Project "Mimikry, Authentizität und politische Emanzipation: Kontroverse Assimilationsdiskurse im kolonialen Indien (ca. 1860-1930)", Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné (Project Manager), Paromita Das Gupta & Luzia Savary (Doctoral Students), ETH Zurich, 2014.
Other
- Vasudha Bharadwaj, Language and "Knowledge Society" in the Age of Globalization: English in Independent India, ETH Zurich, 2016.
- Stephan Scheuzger, „Wahrheitskommissionen: Nationale Vergangenheits- und Geschichtspolitik im Kontext der Globalisierung“, ETH Zürich, 2015.
- Maria Framke & Joanna Simonow, South Asian Humanitarianism in Armed Conflicts, 1899-1947, ETH Zurich, 2015.
- Patricia Purtschert, Kolonialismus ohne Kolonien? Eine postkoloniale Diskursanalyse der Schweiz, ETH Zurich, 2015.
- Harald Fischer-Tiné, Sanskrit, Sociology and Anti-Imperial Struggle: The Worlds of Shyamji Krishnavarma (1857-1930), ETH Zurich, 2014.
- "Zur Rettung der Menschheit“: Die globale Antialkoholbewegung, Swiss National Foundation, Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné (Project Manager), Dr. Jana Tschurenev (Coordinator), Sönke Bauck & Francesco Spöring & Nikolay Kamenov (Doctoral Students), ETH Zurich, 2013.