PhD in History

The Department of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland, invites applications for a fully funded, four-year (1 plus 3) PhD position in a history project led by Dr. Fabian Baumann (principal investigator, PI), to be filled as of 1st August 2026 or by agreement./nThe project The Threatened Republic: Treason, Disloyalty, and the Defense of Democracy in Interwar Czechoslovakia, funded by a Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, explores the legal and political strategies that the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938) used to defend the state’s integrity and “democratic-republican” system. Team members will research several case studies of anti-state movements and of state institutions charged with the defense of the system./nAs a doctoral researcher, you will contribute an autonomous case study on the history of treason, disloyalty, and the defense of democracy in Slovakia and/or Subcarpathian Ruthenia. The position is based in Basel, Switzerland.