| Defense date | Thesis author | Thesis Title | Thesis supervisor |
| 13 September 2018 | Andriy Posunko | The Ambiguities of Cossackdom: The Case of the Pontic Steppe, 1775-1830s | Alfred J. Rieber |
| 4 May 2018 | Piotr Wcislik | License: The Prefigurative Politics of Polish Dissident Social Media Activism, 1976-1990 | Balázs Trencsényi |
| 27 April 2018 | Oskar Mulej | Interwar Perspectives on Liberalism in Central Europe: the Czech, Austrian and Slovene National Liberal Heirs, 1918-1934 | Maciej Janowski |
| 17 March 2017 | Liliana Iuga | Reshaping the Historic City under Socialism: State Preservation, Urban Planning, and the Politics of Scarcity in Romania (1945-1977) | Constantin Iordachi |
| 16 March 2017 | Adrian Grama | Laboring Along: Industrial Workers and the Making of Postwar Romania (1944-1955) | Marsha Siefert |
| 18 January 2017 | Francesco La Rocca | Writers of Tales: A Study on National Literary Epic Poetry with a Comparative Analysis of the Albanian and South Slavic Cases | György Szőnyi |
| 18 January 2017 | Dora Ivanišević | Epitaphic Culture and Social History in Late Antique Salona (ca. 250 – 600 C.E.) | Volker Menze |
| 12 June 2015 | Anna Mazanik | Sanitation, Urban Environment and the Politics of Public Health in Late Imperial Moscow | Alexei Miller |
| 31 March 2015 | Zsofia Lorand | “Learning a Feminist Language”: The Intellectual History of Feminism in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s | |
| 18 March 2015 | Emily Gioielli | ‘White Misrule’: Terror and Political Violence during Hungary’s Long World War I, 1919-1924 | Susan Zimmermann |
| 30 October 2014 | Uku Lember | Silenced Ethnicity: Russian-Estonian Intermarriages in Soviet Estonia (Oral History) | Marsha Siefert |
| 24 February 2014 | Cristian Daniel | Coping with the Powerful Other: A Comparative Approach to Greek-Slavonic Communities of Rite in Late Medieval Transylvania and the Banat | Niels Gaul |
| 29 April 2013 | Katalin Straner | Science, Translation and the Public: The Hungarian Reception of Darwinism, 1858-1875 | Karl Hall |
| 5 February 2013 | Livia Szelpal | A Tale of Two Hungarian Cities: The Making and Reading of Modern Debrecen and Szeged, 1850-1914 | Judit Bodnár |
| 23 September 2011 | Adam Mestyan | “A garden with mellow fruits of refinement” - Music Theatres and Cultural Politics in Cairo and Istanbul, 1867-1892 | Marsha Siefert |
| 15 June 2011 | Maria Falina | Public Defense of the Doctoral Thesis by Maria Falina: “Pyrrhic Victory: East Orthodox Christianity, Politics and Serbian Nationalism in the Interwar Period ” | Balázs Trencsényi |
| 11 December 2009 | Marioara-Camelia Craciun | Between Marginal Rebels and Mainstream Critics: Jewish Romanian Intellectuals in the Interwar Period | Andras Kovacs |