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PhD / Dr. (Promotion) – Faculty of History, Art and Regional Studies at Leipzig University

Leipzig University, Germany

Programme overview

Doctoral research (Promotion) at the Faculty of History, Art and Regional Studies, classical in its broad choice of subjects and modern in supervision and the possibility of interdisciplinary exchange; the faculty works with partners such as the Saxon Academy of Sciences, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the Leibniz institutes for Eastern European and Jewish history.

Faculty: Fakultät für Geschichte, Kunst- und Regionalwissenschaften  |  Study mode: individual or structured doctorate  |  Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

What you will study

Doctorates across the faculty's three pillars of history, art and regional studies.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Admission to the doctorate follows the faculty's Promotionsordnung (doctoral regulations); a supervisor and topic are agreed first (see the university's Promotion pages).

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