Specializations in Ph.D. study programme Historical Sciences

Faculty of Philosophy - Ph.D. study programmes accredited in German

Programme Historical Sciences
Specialization Czech History

The description of the subject:
The doctoral study of the Czech history is divided into three levels. On the methodological and heuristic level, students will deepen their knowledge on methodology of historical sciences, historiography and philosophy of history, which they obtained during their master studies. They also prove appropriate language skills and they will formulate the heuristic basis for the doctoral thesis. During the critical and interpretative phase of the study, students will obtain a comprehensive knowledge of facts about historical sources and they will focus on the methodology and methods of their own research. They will publish results of their research in the form of scientific papers. The last part of the study will be occupied by textation of doctoral theses in the form of original scientific book.

The study plan:

The form of study:
daily, combined 

The standard length of study:
three years

Doctoral theses: 
Doctoral theses are mainly bound to the research specializations of the Institute of History, the Institute of Archival Studies, and the Institute of Archeology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of South Bohemia. The institutes specialize mainly in the history of the early modern period (structural and historical-anthropological approach), the cultural history of the 19th and 20th century, historiography. The emphasis will be put on the projects that collide with the research project of the Institute of History (http://www.hu.jcu.cz/veda/sczrn.php)

Possible supervisors:
doc. PhDr. Josef Blüml, CSc. (historie@ff.jcu.cz)
historiography 

doc. Dagmar Blümlová, CSc. (blumlova@ff.jcu.cz)
cultural history of the 19th and the 20th centuryprof. PhDr. 

prof. PhDr. Václav Bůžek, CSc. (buzek@ff.jcu.cz)
early modern history, the history of imperial court and nobility, cultural history 

doc. PhDr. Bohumil Jiroušek, Dr. (jirousek@ff.jcu.cz)
positivist and Marxist historiography, history of the 19th and the 20th century 

doc. PhDr. Rudolf Krajíc, CSc. (krajic@husmuzeum.cz)
post-medieval archeology 

doc. PhDr. Marie Ryantová, CSc.(ryntova@ff.jcu.cz)
early modern history, gender studies, archival studies 

doc. Robert Sak (historie@ff.jcu.cz)
history of the 20th century
 

Topics and authors of  previously defended theses:

• Food and dining at noble courts in the early modern period (Josef Hrdlička)
• Historiographer Josef Klik (Bohumil Jiroušek)
• Death and funeral rituals in the early modern period (Pavel Král)
• Political communication of aristocracy in the early modern period (Zdeněk Vybíral)
• Marriage correspondence of nobility (Pavel Marek)
• Retribution law-courts after the World War II (Petr Justin)

Doctoral research in progress: 

• Representaion and Baroque architecture (Jiří Kubeš)
• Motherhood in the early modern period (Tereza Diewoková)
• Clothing culture in the early modern period (Milena Hajná)
• Nobility at the imperial court in the time of Leopold I (Rostislav Smíšek)
• Theatre avant-garde (Jitka Rauchová)
• Officials at noble courts in the early modern period (Václav Pražák)
• Municipal administration in the early modern period (Karel Kratochvíl)
• Marginal groups in the early modern period (Jaroslav Dibelka)
• Czech-Latvian relations in history (Ivan Malý)
• Underground culture in Czechoslovakia 1948-1989 (Zuzana Gilarová)
• Notion of eastern Europe in the early modern newspapers (Kateřina Bicanová)
• Police disciplination of rural population (Pavel Matlas)
• Noble education in the 19th century (Alena Kiehlborn)
• Town in the southern and western Bohemia (16th-18th century)

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