Dissertations

As primary supervisor:

• Maike Riedinger, Ants and apes between analogy and anthropomorphism. A discourse-analytical investigation of animal psychology around 1900.
• Ulrike Heitholt, Breeding and order. The German agricultural animal show business in the 19th century and the genesis of the German Agricultural Society.
• Simon Kleinert, "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben?- Der diachrone, reciprocal Aushandlungsprozess der Tier-Mensch-Verhältnisse der ersten deutschen Vegetarismusbewegung von ca. 1850 bis 1935.
• Hagen Lietzke, Reise um das Leben- Eine interdisziplinäre Entdeckungsfahrt in die Artenübergreifende Beziehungsgeschichte des Lebens im Horizont der europäisch-polynesischen Kulturkontakte der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts.

As secondary supervisor:

• Wiebke Reinert, Mixed company: work and pleasure in animal-human relationships at the zoo 1850-1970 (completed 2018).
• Jadon Nisly-Goretzki, Agricultural Intensification and Human-Animal Relations in the Oeconomic Enlightenment: Confinement and Cross-Breeding on Model Farms and Peasant Holdings in Franconia, ca. 1750-1830 (completed 2022).
• Anne Mertins, Shaped Memories: An Investigation of Landscape Architectural Designs of Memorials at Nazi Concentration Camp Sites.

As third reviewer:

• Marcel Sebastian: Cultural and Institutional Frames of Human-Animal Relations (completed 2021).