Doctorates

Doing a Doctorate in Digital Humanities

Prequisites

Digital Humanities is a doctoral subject of the Faculty of Arts and Department of Theology.

For a PhD in this subject, the topic of the dissertation must be related to formal analysis or technology studies. The work is design-based in its goal of knowledge; for example, models, methods, and algorithms or architectures of artifacts are developed and evaluated using criteria appropriate to the problem.

Qualifying degree programs include diploma, master’s, or master’s programs in the following areas (not exhaustive):

  • Digital Humanities and Social Studies degree programs, such as Digital Humanities, Computing in the Humanities, or Computational Social Sciences
  • Studies with a focus on data analytics, such as Data Analytics, Data Science, or Corpus Linguistics
  • Informatics including hyphenated computer science, such as Cultural Informatics or Media Informatics

 

If you would like to do a doctorate in Digital Humanities, please contact one of the participating professors.

Doing a Doctorate in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Doctoral subjects in the humanities and social sciences are also available for dissertation topics dealing with digitization in relation to various phenomena of the Conditio Humana.

For more information about doctoral studies at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, please visit https://www.fau.eu/graduate-centre/doctoral-degrees/

Ongoing doctorates

  • Topic: Identity in the Digital Age (dt.: Identität im Digitalen)
  • Beginning: 2022
  • Examiners: Prof. Dr. Svenja Hagenhoff (FAU), Prof. Dr. Sibylle Kunz (Media Informatics at
    IUBH International University of Applied Sciences)

Completed doctorates

  • Topic: Usability of digital reading media – conception and empirical evaluation of a reference model using the example of digital professional journals.
  • Day of disputation: October 6, 2020.
  • Examiners: Prof. Dr. Svenja Hagenhoff (FAU), Prof. Dr. Sven Pagel (University of Applied Sciences Mainz), Prof. Dr. Sven Laumer (FAU).
  • The dissertation is published by Nomos.
  • Sibylle Kunz has since been appointed Professor of Media Informatics in the Department of IT & Technology at IUBH International University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt.