1 Promotionsstipendium bei Technische Universität Dresden

TUD Dresden University of Technology, as a University of Excellence, is one of the leading and most
dynamic research institutions in the country. Founded in 1828, today it is a globally oriented,
regionally anchored top university as it focuses on the grand challenges of the 21st century. It
develops innovative solutions for the world's most pressing issues. In research and academic
programs, the university unites the natural and engineering sciences with the humanities, social
sciences and medicine. This wide range of disciplines is a special feature, facilitating interdisciplinarity
and transfer of science to society. As a modern employer, it offers attractive working conditions to all
employees in teaching, research, technology and administration. The goal is to promote and develop
their individual abilities while empowering everyone to reach their full potential. TUD embodies a
university culture that is characterized by cosmopolitanism, mutual appreciation, thriving innovation
and active participation. For TUD diversity is an essential feature and a quality criterion of an excellent
university. Accordingly, we welcome all applicants who would like to commit themselves, their
achievements and productivity to the success of the whole institution.

The Vice-Rectorate University Culture and the Institute of History at TUDwithin the framework of
the research project “Technical College of Dresden under National Socialism. Transformations of
Knowledge and Science in the 20th Century” invite applications for

one doctoral scholarship

starting at the next possible date and limited to three and a half years, with a possible extension of
six months to revise the dissertation for publication.

TUD will investigate its history on the occasion of its 200th anniversary in May 2028. An interdisciplinary
research project and a research training group (Graduiertenkolleg) will examine Technical College of
Dresden’s history against the backdrop of political changes in the 20th century. The project focuses
on knowledge practices and their interactions with practices and structures of power. In particular, it
analyzes the application and politicization of knowledge and science with regard to the transformation
of politics and society under National Socialism, including its preconditions beginning in the early
1920s and its repercussions after 1945. For further information, please refer to the project website at
https://tud.link/2umt.

Together with our partners, we are establishing a web-based research database with information on
scientists at TH Dresden and making it accessible to the public on TUD’s 200th anniversary in May
2028. Existing data and data generated through the project will be fed into this database. The aim is
a historical network analysis that clusters the data by person, topic, subject, and location and tracks
its use and citation. The dissertation project for the advertised scholarship is part of the preparation
and implementation of this analysis and is intended as a basic project for the research training group.

processing, and archiving the research data of the research training group on the basis of an
existing database structure and will be responsible for the further development of the data
management concept;

• you will obtain further data through the (partially) automated analysis of larger text corpora (e.g.,

academic journals and press) and cluster these according to personal, thematic, subject, and
geographical criteria to conduct a historical network analysis and explore the scientific potential
of digital processes and methods, such as data mining and optical character recognition in the
digital humanities, university history, and the history of science;

• supported by student and research assistants, you will participate in the coordination of data

collection;

• you will pursue further academic qualifications with the aim of obtaining a PhD at TUD, prepare

a PhD dissertation on a subject in the conceptual framework of the research project, and work
toward its publication in the anniversary year of TUD in 2028. You will regularly participate in the
qualification program and events of the research training group in Dresden.

Requirements: You have an excellent master’s degree, preferably in digital humanities, digital history,
a subject in the humanities and social sciences, if you possess a demonstrable knowledge of digital
humanities or computer science, a subject with a focus on l