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Enrollment Year 2023/24
- Ageeva, Daria| Russia
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Was There Plenty of Fish in the Sea? Early Modern Fisheries of the Eastern Adriatic in the Time of Climate Change
Supervisor: Katalin Szende - Bennett, Nelson| New Zeland
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Chaos and Opportunity: Women in Power in Late Antiquity
Supervisor(s): - Lafontaine, Marie-Eve| USA
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Vice, Virtue and Contemplation: Transfers of Affect and Emotion in the Spolia of Medieval Reliquaries
Supervisor: Béla Zsolt Szakács - Rácz, Bernát| Hungary
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Reliquaries with Stories: The Pétermonostora Plaques and Other 12th-Century Mosan Phylacteries with Narratives
Supervisor: Béla Zsolt Szakács - Vlachou, Olga| Greece
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Social Networks and Prosopography of 12th-Century Byzantium
Supervisor: Baukje van den Berg
Enrollment Year 2022/23
- Bena, Samuel| Slovakia
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: All the King's Men: Military Service, Royal Army and the Noble Leagues in Late Medieval Bohemia (1413–1465)
Supervisors: Éloïse Adde and Balázs Nagy - Chandran, Saranya| India
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Creating Digital Humanities Tools for Garshuni Malayalam
Supervisor: István Perczel - Morozova, Anastasiia| Ukraine
Provisional doctoral doctoral dissertation title: Sint laeti qui tristitiam fideliter pertulerunt: Emotions, Culture, Rhetoric and Social Relations in Cassiodorus's Texts
Supervisors: Cristian Gașpar and Volker Menze - Özdemir, Osman| Turkey
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Narrative Space in Liturgical Experience: A Comparative Study of Hagiopolite, Constantinopolitan, and Syriac Liturgies
Supervisors: István Perczel and Volker Menze - Schuil, Karsten| Netherlands
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Life-Changing Journeys to Rome
Supervisor: Gábor Klaniczay - Wilson, Jack| Canada
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: The Golden Horde's First Time of Troubles: Political, Demographic and Environmental Crisis in the Jochid
Supervisors: Balázs Nagy and József Laszlovszky
Enrollment Year 2021/22
- Olha Stasiuk| Ukraine
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Protect the Unprotected: Personae Miserabiles in Canon Law from 11th to 13th Centuries
Supervisor: Daniel Ziemann - Tymoshevskyi, Roman | Ukraine
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: The Art of Deposition: Royal Dethronement in England and the Holy Roman Empire 1298–1400
Supervisor: Daniel Ziemann - Yerebakan, Hakan| Turkey
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Laughing in Offense and Defense: Early Modern Ottoman Humour and Invective - Supervisor: Tijana Krstić
Enrollment Year 2020/21
- Božič, Anja| Slovenia
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Praising Saints or Preaching Eloquence: Humanist Orations in Honor of St. Jerome
Supervisor: Cristian Gașpar and Baukje van den Berg - Buso, Vania| Italy
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: The Engagement of Women in the Legal Culture(s) of Northern Italy and Bavaria, 8th-10th c.
Supervisor: Daniel Ziemann and Gerhard Jaritz - Galamb János | Hungary
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Ḥadīth Culture in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean
Supervisor: Tijana Krstić - Kiprovska, Mariya| Bulgaria
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Rationalizing Empire-Building: The Role of the Frontier Elites in the Ottoman State-Building process, 14th – 16th Centuries
Supervisor: Tijana Krstić - Machalski, Michal| Poland
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Loyalty, Trust and Authority in the Fragmented Poland (1138-1320)
Supervisor: Katalin Szende and Balazs Nagy - Ramchandani, Vijay| India
Joint PhD Fellowship with the Environmental Sciences and Policy Department
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: A Study of Grassroots Approach to Biocultural Heritage and Sustainable Development in Western India
Supervisor: Alice Choyke
Enrollment Year 2019/20
- Joy, Merin Emy| India
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: The Paravur Dialogues: A Debate between Four Religions in an Early Modern Garshuni Malayalam Manuscript from South India
Supervisor: Istvan Perczel - Juan Lopez, Juan Butista| Spain
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Reading Homer and the Old Testament in the early 14th century. Manuel Gabalas’ interpretation of the Odyssey and the Sayings of the Prophets.
Supervisor: Baukje Van Den Berg - Kaplan, Cankat| Turkey
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Another Sunnism: Ottoman Sufis' Reception of Shiite Doctrines in the Sixteenth Century
Supervisor: Tijana Krstic - Kotus, Karolina| Poland
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Patriarch as a Politician: Cyril Loucaris (d. 1638) and His Role in the Ottoman Diplomacy with Russia.
Supervisor: Tijana Krstic - Rockwell, David| United States of America
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Justinian’s Conniving Bankers Guild Lobbying and the Imperial Bureaucracy in 6th-Century Byzantium
Supervisor: Volker Menze - Rubio Arevalo, Juan Manuel| Colombia
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Crusades and Scripture: The Bible in Crusader Epic and Preaching
Supervisors: Volker Menze (primary supervisor), Daniel Kline (external supervisor) - Snider, Jason| United States of America
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: A Strategic Analysis of the Entire Castle System Bestowed Upon the Teutonic Order within the Banates of Severin and Sibi
Supervisor: Jozsef Laszlovszky
Enrollment Year 2018/19
- Hlaca, Tea| Croatia
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: The Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Century Wall Painting in Istria: Stylistic, Iconographic, and Historical Analysis
Supervisor: Bela Zsolt Szakacs - Kalashnikova, Olga | The Russian Federation
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: The Father of the Bohemian Reformation: Iohannes Milicius de Cremsir's Criticism of the Church in Pre-Hussite Bohemia
Supervisor: Gabor Klaniczay - Katona, Csete| Hungary
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: The Formation and Function of Military Retinues in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia During the 9th-11th c.
Supervisor: Jozsef Laszlovszky - Kinde, Anna| Hungary
Provisional doctoral dissertation title:The Function of Cathedral Spaces in Late Medieval Central Europe (c. 1300-1563)
Supervisor: Bela Zsolt Szakacs - Longo, Gaetano| Italy
Provisional doctoral dissertation title:Damascius' Aporetical Metaphysics in Relation to His Interpretation of Plato's Parmenides
Supervisor: Gyorgy Gereby
Enrollment Year 2017/18
- Dereli, Çiçek| Turkey
Provisional doctoral dissertation title:Glorious Past and Threating Future: The Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner of Studios
Supervisor: Jozsef Laszlovszky - Komori Tünde | Hungary
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: TA Network of Consumption: The Distribution of Luxury Ceramics in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (16th - 17th centuries)
Supervisor: Katalin Szende and Jozsef Laszlovszky - Milenković, Dunja| Serbia
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Competence and Competitivity of the Byzantine Intellectual: The Case of Theodore Prodromos
Supervisor: Gyorgy Gereby, Baukje van den Berg - Miljan, Sanja| Croatia
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Organization and Activity of Franciscans in Medieval Dalmatia
Supervisor: Gabor Klaniczay
Enrollment Year 2016/17
- Knox, Daniel | New Zealand
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Ennodius of Pavia and Social Networks in Ostrogothic Italy
Supervisor: Volker Menze
Enrollment Year 2015/16
- Hayrapetyan, Piruza| Armenia
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: The Image of the Virgin Mary in Armenian Gandzes: Comparative Study with Syriac Marian Hymns
Supervisor: István Perczel - Theologou, Anastasia | Greece
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: Mother Nature vs Father Creator: On the Creation of the World
Supervisor: István Perczel, István Bodnár
Enrollment Year 2014/15
- Pető, Zsuzsanna | Hungary
Provisional doctoral dissertation title: The Hermits of the King, the Hermits of the People: Pauline Monastic Space in the Carpathian Basin until the Mid-Fifteenth Century
Supervisor: József Laszlovszky, Katalin Szende