Graduate School
All doctoral researchers and prospective doctoral researchers of the Faculty of Humanities can pursue a structured doctoral program at the graduate school. The graduate school serves as an umbrella for the various research training groups at the Faculty of Humanities.
Responsibilities and objectives
The graduate school’s purpose is to ensure the quality of structured doctoral programs. Responsibilities and goals in particular include:
- supporting the ongoing development of structured doctoral programs in the faculty and involving the faculty
- promoting cooperation between Universität Hamburg and non-university research institutions within structured doctoral programs
- funding and promoting projects initiated and conducted by doctoral researchers at the graduate school
- promoting internationalization in structured doctoral programs
- promoting equal opportunity and the ability to combine a scientific career with family life
The graduate school’s bylaws set forth responsibilities and goals.
Head and Board
The graduate school has a board consisting of the school’s spokesperson, the heads of the externally funded research training groups, and 2 doctoral researcher representatives. The school’s spokesperson is the acting vice dean for internationalization and support for doctoral and early career researchers.
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martina Seifert (spokesperson)
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ivana Rentsch (Research Training Group Understanding Written Artefacts)
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anselm Steiger (Research Training Group Interconfessionalism in the Early Modern Period)
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthew Braham (Research Training Group Collective Decision-Making)
- N.N. (Doctoral researchers’ representatives)
Structured doctoral programs
Humanities Doctoral Program
The Humanities Doctoral Program is open to all doctoral researchers in the faculty providing they are not also members in another, externally funded research training group. In addition to a structured doctoral program consisting of courses on the subject and for transferable skills, the Humanities Doctoral Program offers other attractive support opportunities:
- interdisciplinary and international qualification and networking opportunities
- binding supervising standards
- improved time management
- opportunities to request financial aid for materials or travel
- provision of a transcript of records after concluding doctoral studies
German Research Foundation Research Training Group Understanding Written Artefacts
The Research Training Group (RTG) Understanding Written Artefacts, funded by the German Research Foundation, is part of the Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC). It provides access to a number of long-term research projects, workshops, and lectures organized by the CSMC at Universität Hamburg since 2012. With its well-established international network of leading researchers and unique cooperation with the natural sciences and humanities within the scope of the cluster of excellence, the RTG offers an outstanding research environment and exciting possibilities for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Ivana Rentsch
Leiterin des Graduiertenkollegs
E-Mail: ivana.rentsch"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Dr. Meryll Rebello
Coordinator for the research training group
Email: merryl.rebello"AT"uni-hamburg.de
German Research Foundation Research Training Group Interconfessionalism in the Early Modern Period
The Research Training Group Interconfessionalism in the Early Modern Period, funded by the German Research Foundation, includes researchers in the fields of German literature, English studies, Romance studies, modern Greek studies, Latin studies, history, the history of philosophy, Sinology, musicology, art history, Jewish studies, and Protestant and Catholic theology. It takes an innovative approach to inter- and trans-confessional permeability from the 16th to the 18th centuries. With customized courses, guidance from interdisciplinary supervisory committees, and the inclusion of international visiting scholars, the RTG’s structured doctoral program offers the best conditions for completing a doctorate and interdisciplinary communication among doctoral researchers and teaching staff.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Anselm Steiger
Head of the research training group
Email: anselm.steiger"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Sabine Ledosquet
Coordinator for the research training group
Email: sabine.ledosquet"AT"uni-hamburg.de(sabine.ledosquet"AT"uni-hamburg.de)
German Research Foundation Research Training Group Collective Decision-Making
The Research Training Group Collective Decision-Making, funded by the German Research Foundation, is overseen by the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences. The Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities is also part of the group. The RTG’s goal is to consolidate a fragmented field by integrating separate theoretical and empirical lines of inquiry and methods in economics, philosophy, and political science while also providing new ideas for research in the area.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Anke Gerber
Head of the research training group
Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
Email: anke.gerber"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Prof. Dr. Matthew Braham
Deputy Head of the research training group
Department of Philosophy
Email: matthew.braham"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Dr. Barbara Schuler
Coordinator for the research training group
Email: cdm.wiso"AT"uni-hamburg.de(cdm.wiso"AT"uni-hamburg.de)
