PhD students at the IGS

Over 40 PhD students are currently conducting research or have previously conducted research at the university campuses in Graz and Erfurt. You can find details of current PhD projects here.

Resonance rather than alienation: The practices of memory among migrants and refugees in Germany’s culture of remembrance

Lukas Bartl, Sociology (EF)

German. Democratic. Restless. Health education media from the GDR in search of relaxation (1955–1992). (Working title)

Christopher Bégin, Sociology (EF)

Religiosity and rituals in clubbing: resonance in unity, consumption and timelessness

Dina Bijelic, Literary Studies/Patristics (EF)

Modelling Christian rule in the medieval Grail romance

Elizaveta Boiko, Archaeology (EF)

The development of urban cult sites in Sicily in the late 6th – early 5th century BCE

Vincenzo Cerulli, Sociology (EF)

Resonance: Practical Applications in Filmmaking and Film Editing

Emma de Koning, Archaeology (EF)

A ‘Pregnant’ Image: The Resonance of Childbirth Iconography and Ritual in the Societies of the Ancient Mediterranean

Heinrich Hofer, Sociology (EF)

Cracks in everyday life. A sociological study of global relations exploring the foundations of ‘social division’

Elena Malagoli, Religious Studies (EF)

Gods and Oaths in the Mittani Treaty: Resonant Self-World Relations in the Ancient Near East

Manuel Moser, Religious Studies (EF)

On objectified drivers and dehumanised lorries: religion, resonances and rituals in the relational networks of East German and Western Bolivian long-haul lorry driver communities.

Zahra Naghshband, Sociology (EF)

Longing, Anxiety, and (Un)fulfilment: The Phenomenology of Ritual Time in Shi’ite Practice

Nicole Navratil, History of South-Eastern Europe (G)

Performing the Nation – and Womanhood? The self-presentations of female leaders of today’s right-wing nationalist/populist parties in Europe

Florian Oppitz, Archaeology/Theology (G)

Centres of Christian charity in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean. An interdisciplinary study based on archaeological and other ancient sources

Rupert Rainer, Philology (G)

“The temple that inspires a desire to gaze upon it.” The church as a place of resonance in Paulus Silentiarius’s ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia

Marina Schutti, Archaeology (G)

A Cypriot Pig Story. A typological and contextual analysis of
depictions of pigs and their role in Cyprus from the Bronze Age to the Roman period

Lena Spickermann, Sociology (G)

“The Nature of Woman as a Field of Negotiation in the Genesis of Scientific Knowledge – A Sociological-Historical Study of Viola Klein’s Work in the Sociology of Knowledge”

Armin Unfricht, Ancient History (G)

Identity, Integration, Politics: On the Social Significance of the Heroisation and Cultic Worship of Historical Figures among the Greeks

Emma Charlotte Weiher, American Studies (EF)

You Must Be All Things – Resonant Prayer-Poems in the North American Literary Tradition

Charles White, Musicology (EF)

Laptop orchestras as resonant post-digital educational spaces

Devmini Malka Wijeratne, Archaeology (EF)

Mos Maiorum, Resonance and Emotion

Alina Zeller, Cultural History (EF)

Traditional costume associations in the USA: how Bavarian customs associations negotiate German-American ethnicity, culture and tradition