- Andi Balla: Demographic discourses and reproductive behavior in Albania since the 1980s
- Fatos Hoxha: A Transformation from below. Understanding Workers’ Lives in the Trepca Industrial Complex during 1960-1980
- Tereza Juhászová: Post-WWII Coexistence in an East Slovak Small-Town
- Xiong Renije: China and Yugoslavia’s Approach to African Decolonisation. Case study of the Congo Crisis (1960-1965)
- Stefan Sagberger: Die Jugoslawienkriege in der Wahrnehmung staatlicher Akteure der Tschechoslowakei und ihrer Nachfolgestaaten (1991–1995)
- Sara Žerić: "Gastarbeiters" as Agents of Modernization in Socialist Yugoslavia
Doctoral Candidates
Although the IOS does support bachelor's and master's students through internships and the (co‑)supervision of final dissertations, the focus of its work in the promotion of young scholars lies in its measures to support doctoral candidates. The IOS employs doctoral candidates and integrates them into its research activities. Doctoral candidates from Germany and abroad who are not employed at the Institute are also given support in gaining scholarships for guest research stays at the IOS and in participating in projects at the Institute. The IOS organizes research colloquia, workshops for doctoral candidates, and summer schools for postgraduates. It also cooperates closely with the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg and at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich).
The following doctoral candidates are currently employed at the IOS:
- Andi Balla: Demographic discourses and reproductive behavior in Albania since the 1980s
- Nikola Gajić
- Stefan Sagberger: Die Jugoslawienkriege in der Wahrnehmung staatlicher Akteure der Tschechoslowakei und ihrer Nachfolgestaaten (1991–1995)
- Sara Žerić: "Gastarbeiters" as Agents of Modernization in Socialist Yugoslavia
Doctoral researchers at the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World":
- Jon Matlack: “Maneuvering toward ‘The West’: US Army-Bundeswehr Joint War Games as a Conduit for Western Identity Formation”
- Efthalia Prokopiou: “Notions of Home on the Far Right ‘White Genocide’ Narrative: A Multinational and Multilingual Approach to Contemporary Far Right Self-Representations in Europe and the Americas”
- Igor Stipić: “The State and its Students: Hegemonic Structures, Subaltern Pedagogies, and Fractured Community in Bosnia and Chile
- Vita Zelenska: “What Does it Mean to Be a Refugee? Sites of Knowledge Production and Their Asymmetrical Entanglements”
Doctoral researchers supervised by IOS staff:
Staff at the IOS supervise doctoral candidates who usually go on to obtain their PhDs at the University of Regensburg. The current doctoral candidates are listed below by supervisor: