Call for applications: Phd In Global History and Governance / 4 Scholarships – LIMITE : 24/08/2018

Global History and Governance

Academic Year 2018-2019

4 Scholarships available : more Informations and to apply

The PhD in Global History and Governance is an advanced research degree at the end of which each student must defend a dissertation based on independent and original academic research.
The course offers a multi-disciplinary training program based on history and law and open to contributions from other disciplines, such as economics, political science and political philosophy. The program focuses on the comparison, connections and processes of globalization that have characterized different areas of the planet since the first epoch of global imperialism and does so by focusing on the relational dimension of historical processes, legal regimes and the organization of power, on the interdependencies between economic, political, juridical, cultural and social factors and on the circulation, exchange and interconnection of ideas, people, institutions, legal cultures, political models, concepts, rights and goods on a global scale.
Members of the PhD board can offer training and preparation for research at the level of the best international centers in the following areas:

• History and historiography
• European empires of the modern and contemporary age
• States, wars and violence in the nineteenth and twentieth century
• History of slavery and forced labor
• The legal heritage of Europe and its integration
• Religions and the sacred in the modern and contemporary world
• Ideas, conceptions and practices of citizenship
• States, nations, languages, peoples, classes
• The globalization of law

Candidates for the PhD are normally expected to hold a master’s degree (or an equivalent qualification) in a subject relevant to the intended topic of study.

The PhD course in Global History and Governance is designed for highly prepared and motivated students who also manage different languages and willing to study in multi and interdisciplinary environment.
Classes are taught either in Italian or English.