Dies academicus 2024Paul Bucherer-Dietschi was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences by Dean Prof. Martin Lengwiler
Dies academicus 2023Prof. Sigrid Weigel received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from Dean Prof. Martin Lengwiler
Dies academicus 2022Prof. Dr. Herta Nagl-Docekal receives an honorary doctorate as one of the most important philosophers of our time
Dies academicus 2021The French historian Prof. Michelle Perrot receives an honorary doctorate
Dies academicus 2019Basel-based musician and composer Heinz Holliger receives an honorary doctorate
Dies academicus 2018 Walter Leimgruber awards an honorary doctorate to Hansjörg Schneider
Dies academicus 2017Walter Leimgruber awards an honorary doctorate to Irma Wehrli-Rudin
Dies academicus 2016Barbara Duden receives an honorary doctorate from Thomas Grob
Dies academicus 2016Thomas Grob awards an honorary doctorate to Sam Keller
Honors
Honorary doctorates from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
2024
Paul Bucherer-Dietschi, philosopher
2023
Prof. Sigrid Weigel, literary scholar
2022
Prof. Dr. Herta Nagl-Docekal, philosopher
2021
Michelle Perrot, historian
2019
Heinz Holliger, musician and composer
2018
Dr. Hansjörg Schneider, writer and crime novelist
2017
Irma Wehrli-Rudin, translator
2016
Barbara Duden, gender researcher and cultural scientist
Sam Keller, museum director and exhibition curator
2015
KD, Karl Dietrich Wolff, publisher
2014
Dževad Karahasan, author
2013
Beat Rudolf Jenny, historian
Jordi Savall, musicologist and gambist
2012
Felicitas Maeder, cultural scientist
2011
Silvana Seidel-Menchi, historian
2010
Onorio Mansutti, photographer
2009
Kurt Flasch, medievalist
2008
Helen Liebendörfer, city guide
Hubert Cancik and Hildegard Cancik-Lindemayer, classical scholars
2007
Heide Wunder, historian
2006
Arthur Cohn, film producer
2005
Charles Linsmayer, editor
2004
Swetlana Geier, translator
2003
Maja Oeri, patroness of the arts
2002
Peter and Ruth Herzog-Wyss, collectors of historical photographs, exhibition organizers
2001
Natalie Zemon Davis, historian and cultural scientist
2000
Hellmut Baumann, archaeologist
Faculty prizes
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences honors with the Faculty Prize young researchers for their outstanding dissertations. The Faculty prize is awarded annually at the Dies academicus.
2024
Dr. des. Jennifer Burri
Arbeitsplatz Haushalt. Migrantische Hausangestellte in Basel, 1930–1980, History
2023
Dr. Sina Dell'Anno
satura. Philologie des monströsen Texts in der Antike und um 1800, German Linguistics and Literary Studies
2022
David Misteli
Ausdruck und Medialität in der Malerei van Goghs, Art History
2021
Simon Schaupp
Technopolitik von unten. Über algorithmische Arbeitssteuerung und kybernetische Proletarisierung, Sociology
2020
Ines Barner
Von anderer Hand. Kollaborative Praktiken des Schreibens zwischen Autor und Lektor, Media Studies
2019
Astrid Elisabeth Reichel
Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives: The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict, Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies
2018
Tanja Hammel
Shaping Science and Society at the Cape - A Relational History of Mary Elizabeth Barber, History
2017
Bianca Hoenig
Geteilte Berge. Nutzungskonflikte und Territorialisierung in der Tatra im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Eastern European History
2016
Julian Genner
FVom Nackt- zum Sicherheitsscanner: Wie Sicherheit zu einer Ware wird, Cultural Anthropology
2015
Sandra Schlumpf
Condicionalidad y concesividad en judeoespañol moderno escrito. Teoría y análisis de corpus, Ibero-Romance Linguistics
2014
Andreas Bürki
Formulaic Language and its Cultural Context. A Diachronic Perspective, General Linguistics
2013
Rita Kesselring
The Formation of a Victims' Subject Position in Today's South Africa: Embodiment and Juridification of Apartheid-Era Violence, Ethnology
2012
Stefanie Mahrer
Jüdische Uhrmacher und Uhrenunternehmer in der Schweiz im 19. Jahrhundert: Migration – Wirtschaft – Religion, Jewish Studies
2011
Beate Böckem
Inszenierung einer Künstlerpersönlichkeit. Jacopo de’ Barbari und der Kulturtransfer in der Frühen Neuzeit, Art History
2010
Inge Hinterwaldner
Das systemische Bild. Ikonizität im Rahmen computerbasierter Echtzeitsimulation, Art History
2009
Rahel Heeg-Fuhrer
Mädchen und Gewalt.Welche Funktionen hat psychische Gewaltausübung für weibliche Jugendliche? Sociology
2008
Alexandra Binnenkade
KontaktZonen. Alltagsbeziehungen als räumliche Praxis in einem jüdisch-christlichen Dorf, Lengnau (Schweiz) im 19. Jahrhundert, History
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Peter Streckeisen
Die zwei Gesichter der Qualifikation, Sociology
Further honors and prizes
Emilie Louise Frey Prize for the promotion of young female scientists 2024: Rahel Baer
Amerbach Prize 2022: Dr. Matthieu Queloz
Alumni Prize 2019 of the University of Basel: Alex Capus, author
Teaching Excellence Awards 2019
Young Talent Award of the student association "Schwizerhüsli" 2018: Rahel Ackermann Hui
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