Current Dissertations
| Name | Title | Furtherance | since |
| Bebnowski, David | 2016 |
| Belinskii, Andrei | 11/2015 |
| Berger, Alrun | Historical Cultures of the 1960s West German and British Peace Movement | 04/2015 |
| Bergmann, Patrick | 12/2015 |
| Böhm, Patrick | 10/2018 |
| de Padua Camelo Canel, Antonio | 11/2016 |
| Dong, Li-Zeng | The Comparison between Ruhr and China on Industrial Heritage | 2017 |
| Ehms, Julia | Der Untergang des revolutionären Syndikalismus - die FAUD und der Versuch syndikalistischer Betriebsarbeit in der Weimarer Republik | Rosa-Luxem-burg-Stiftung | 10/2015 |
| Eszrenyi, Steve | A comparison of English and West German working-class literature between 1949-1989 | 2014 |
| Fabian, Norbert | 03/2019 |
| Fleiter, Andreas | Prison reform in Germany and the United States: Maryland and Prussia, 1850-1930 | Studienstiftung | 10/1999 |
| Fischer, Jonas | Knowledge cultures in subjectivation-processes of disabled people since the 1970s | FES | 7/2018 |
| Golombek, Jana | "'Please fill the gap'" - Industrial heritage as a postindustrial placeholder? A comparision of Upper Silesia, Pittsburg and the Ruhr Area since the 1980s | Land NRW, RVR, RAG-Stiftung | 02/2015 |
| Gortanutti, Giulia | Fragmented Alliances against the Colossus.Transnational cooperation between trade unions and social movements against the Transnational Trade and Investment Partnership |
| Heith, Holger | Youth and Unions: The Miners Youth in Germany 1945-1998 | ISB | 01/2000 |
| Horstmann, Anna | 5/2018 |
| Jayaethi, Ramesha | The Development of Ethno-Religious Nationalism and its Impact on Post-Colonial History-Writing in Sri Lanka | 5/2018 |
| Jünger, Andreas | 02/2015 |
| Kellershohn, Jan | Stiftung des Ruhrgebiets | 2016 |
| Kollritsch, Felix | Transnational networks of left-wing intellectuals in the context of the new left in Germany | FES | 11/2014 |
| König, Jana | 05/2016 |
| Kritter, Sabine | Representations of Work in Museums | Hans-Böckler-Stiftung | 04/2014 |
| Langwald, Sarah | Rosa-Luxem-burg-Stiftung | 04/2015 |
| Lauber, Johanna | Die Europäischen Sozialforen: Orte zur Konstruktion transnationaler Allianzen zwischen Gewerkschaften und Sozialen Bewegungen? | Hans-Böckler-Stiftung | 10/2015 |
| Li, Zheng Dong | 05/2016 |
| Li, Zijian | 05/2016 |
| Müller, Moritz | 10/2016 |
| Nikolas, Ana-Maria | Kooperation zwischen sozialen Bewegungsorganisationen und Gewerkschaften in den europäischen Anti-Austerität-Protesten | Hans-Böckler-Stiftung | 10/2015 |
| Padua, Tico | 2017 |
| Siepmann, Marcel | 12/2014 |
| Seiffert, Joana | Political violence in the Ruhr area in the Weimar Republic | Gerda Henkel Stiftung | 07/2012 |
| Stalder-Thon, Mandy | 12/2016 |
| Stonescu, Richard | Hans-Böckler-Stiftung | 2016 |
| Täufert, Katharina | Hans-Böckler-Stiftung | 06/2013 |
| Teichmann, Ulf | Hans-Böckler-Stiftung | 06/2013 |
| Trabalski, Daniel | 11/2016 |
| Vladu, Anda Nicolae | 11/2016 |
| Vogt, Dennis |
| Woywod, Niklas | 5/2018 |
| Wuttke, Ingo | 2017 |
Current Habilitations
| Hoffrogge, Ralf | Work during the crisis - Crisis interpretations of trade unions and crisis policy in Germany and the UK | 10/2014 |
| Voigt, Sebastian |
Completed dissertations since 2008
| Name | Title | Furtherance | Completion |
| Adamski, Jens | Doctors of social life. The Social Research Centre Dortmund 1946-1969 | Wilhelm und Günter Esser Stiftung | 07/2008 |
| Ahland, Frank | "Dance on raw eggs without breaking them." The unionists Louis Rosenberg | HBS |
| Beyer, Burkhard | Industrialization of the business. The firm of Krupp 1811-1850 | Krupp-Förderung (Krupp-Archiv) |
| Choi, Jae-Ho | Education Policy in the Federal German Republic in the 1960s and 1970s |
| Großewinkelmann, Johannes | Tradition and Reform - Professional training in Solingen and Bielefeld metal industry since the turn of the century |
| Gawehn, Gunnar | The history of the Zeche Zollverein from its founding until the outbreak of World War I | Stiftung-Zollverein/Wilhelm und Günter Esser Stiftung | 06/2011 |
| Hahnwald, Jens | Labor and labor movements in a "peripheral" region: the Hochsauerland 1890-1933 | Landkreis HSK |
| Heistermann, Marion | Between disassembly and reassembly. The Essen Industrial Development Agency, and economic reconstruction on the site of the Krupp steel factory | Stadt Essen |
| Irmak, Kenan Holger | The sick. Old people and the elderly patient in Germany, 1924-1961 |
| Kössler, Till | Party cadres and working class. The communists in West Germany 1945-1960 | DFG, Graduierten- förderung NRW |
| Jung, Yongsuk | The miner's family in the Ruhr 1945-1990 | (Korea) |
| Kruke, Anja | Political opinion research and the SPD in 1945 | Bennigsen-Förder-Preis Ziemann |
| Lee, Dae-Heon | Social policy and industrial relations a "state coal mine" in the Ruhr 1918-1933 |
| Löwen, John Wesley | The history of the German electricity industry in the postwar period | RWE AG | 11/2011 |
| Martin, Katrin | The own in a foreign land. Cross-border relations in the contact zone Saarland-Lorraine (1850-1914) | Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris |
| Michels, Barbara | Expert officialdom and bourgeois socialization: The mining and metallurgical Association |
| Mintert, David | The Kemna and the dismantling of the socialist environment in the Bergisch Land | FES |
| Oerters, Kathrin | Mining culture and cultural politics of the structure of the Ruhr mining industry | Projekt- förderung | 02/2010 |
| Owetschkin, Dimitrij | Konrad Schmidt and the revisionism of the German Social Democracy | Gottlieb Daimler und Karl Benz-Stiftung |
| Park, Gyn-Jung | The German Social Democrats and the social legislation of the Diet 1890-1914 | Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung |
| Piquet, Nathalie | Employment and industrial relations in the northern French and Belgian mines under German occupation | ZIB |
| Przigoda, Stefan | Business associations in the Ruhr mining from 1858 to 1933. The History of Mining Association and Association of Colliery |
| Rawe, Kai | Forced labor in the Ruhr coal mining during the First World War | ZIB |
| Remeke, Stefan | Social policy and trade unions 1969-1974 | HBS |
| Rudzinski, Marco | History of the Bochumer Verein until 1914 | Stipendium Krupp-Stiftung | 01/2002 |
| Schwitanski, Alexander | Rights beyond the law? - Basic and human rights in the history of German Social Democracy (1919-1949) | FES |
| Shin, Myoung-Hoon | Labour Offices in the German labor movement - a social institution for the union in the Empire in World War I and the Weimar Republic | Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung |
| Stadtland, Helke | The FDGB and "his" workers. Tradition and Transformation in the East German trade unions, as an example of the Mining in IG Chemie in the SBZ / GDR between 1945-1953 |
| Tekin, Caner | Conceptualizations of the European “Self” and “Other” in Political Levels of the Contemporary European Union: Representations of the EU and Turkey within the Current Enlargement | 2017 |
| Urban, Thomas | The use of foreign workers in the Central and East German brown coal industry during the Second World War | Henkel-Stiftung |
| Vollmer, Walter | Montan codetermination - "democratization" of the corporate culture? | privat | 11/2001 |
Completed Habilitations
| Name | Title | Printing place | Year |
| Puschnerat, Tânia | Clara Zetkin. Bourgeois and Marxism |
| Rudolph, Karsten | Economic diplomacy in the Cold War. The "Ostpolitik" of West German big business 1945-1991 |
| Ziemann, Benjamin | Catholic Church and Social Sciences 1945-1975 |