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01. Oct 2027 for 3 years

15. Nov 2026

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Art History, Ancient History, Ancient Studies, Ancient Oriental Studies, Archaeology, Protohistory, History, Mediaeval History, Early Modern History, Modern History, History of Science, Egyptology, Ancient, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Culture and Technology, Arabic Studies, Islamic Studies, Iranian Studies, Persian, Jewish Studies, Semitic Studies, Turkology, Turkish, Egyptology, Modern, Oriental Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, East Asian Studies, Chinese Studies

The internationally oriented doctoral program History and Cultural Studies (HCS)
invites applications for up to ten study places. The program is part of the Department of
History and Cultural Studies and is a member of the Dahlem Research School.

Target group: The Program offers graduate students with an excellent academic record a structured, research-oriented curriculum in cultural studies with disciplinary and interdisciplinary elements for doctoral studies in one of the research areas of the Department of History and Cultural Studies. The PhD Program is a three-year curriculum. Courses are taught in English and German.

Profile: The disciplines represented in the HCS program work historically, dealing with material, visual and written cultures. They research antique cultures as well as the present, examining literatures, textual traditions, and languages in the Near and Middle East, different regions in East Asia, religions, and cults. The doctoral program brings these subjects together in the common interest of combining broad approaches of cultural studies with subject-specific knowledge and competence and of forming a practice of interdisciplinary work. HCS considers both the tradition of Kulturwissenschaften taught in Germany and the Anglo-American cultural studies approach to (socio-)political questions. The program gives doctoral students the opportunity to develop and regularly discuss their own research based on these discursive traditions. Participation in the HCS requires both well-founded subject knowledge and a profound interest in theoretical and methodological issues on an interdisciplinary level.