Field of History
The History field focuses on strengthening doctoral studies in history and promoting new directions aligned with current national and international research trends, with the aim of diversifying doctoral research.
It also aims to foster doctoral-level academic training by encouraging interdisciplinary approaches, the internationalization of historical research through collaboration with prestigious foreign scholars, and the development of doctoral students’ intellectual capacities, critical thinking, self-assessment skills, and research abilities, while promoting their participation in national and international academic events.
The scientific and professional quality of the doctoral supervisors in the History field, their openness to national and international collaboration—including through joint PhD supervision (co-tutelle)—and the infrastructure available, are guarantees of this field’s strong presence in the competitive landscape of high-performing educational and research systems.
Doctoral supervisors
Thematic areas of interest (2025)
- Istoria modernă a României;
- Istoria Europei în secolul XIX;
- Istoria relațiilor internaționale.
- Istoria și teoria artei (secolele XVIII-XX)/ arhitectură, sculptură, pictură;
- Iconografie și iconologie;
- Conservarea patrimoniului.
- Istorie medievală și modernă timpurie;
- Istoria Banatului și Transilvaniei (sec. XIII-XVII);
- Spațiul românesc și european în perioada medievală și premodernă.
- Culte, viață religioasă și calendare în cetățile grecești din Asia Mică;
- Biserică și stat la Bizanț de la Constantin cel Mare până la cruciada a IV-a din 1204;
- Creștinismul și cultura clasică în secolelel II-VIII;
- Arheologie preistorică;
- Neolitic;
- Protejarea patrimoniului cultural.
- Istoria Daciei romane;
- Arheologia provincială romană;
- Istoria și arheologia Imperiului Roman.
Useful information
Proposed topics for admission (2025)
For the complete list of topics, please refer to the table (link).
The funding status of each topic (scholarship-based budget, budget without scholarship, or tuition fee) is determined based on the admission competition, in accordance with the UVT methodology.
Admission
Admission consists of an oral examination in the form of an interview based on the research project.
The research project, written in Romanian or in the language in which the doctoral thesis will be developed (with the approval of the doctoral supervisor accepting the application), must include:
- A description of the research problem (context, motivation, relevance) and the research objectives
- A theoretical/conceptual/methodological framework
- A description of the study corpus (if applicable)
- A minimum relevant bibliography for the proposed research
For more details regarding the application file, the admission calendar, and the organization of the admission process within the Doctoral School of Humanities, please consult the DSH Admission Regulations and the UVT Doctoral Admission Methodology.
Resources
- Access to international academic databases via the “Eugen Todoran” Central University Library (e.g., SpringerLink Journals, Clarivate Analytics, Scopus, EBSCO Academic Search Complete, etc.)
- Access to libraries: “Eugen Todoran” Central University Library; The “Reinhart Koselleck” History Library
- Access to the infrastructure of the “Constantin Daicoviciu” Center for Historical and Archaeological Studies, Timișoara (link).
Curriculum
- Doctoral students admitted in the first year in 2024 (link)
- Doctoral students admitted in the first year in 2025 (link)
Courses
Completion of studies
For more details about the IOSUD-West University of Timișoara study completion procedure, please visit the Doctoral Studies > Completion of doctoral studies page (link).
For field-specific details, please consult the following:
- Order of the Ministry of Education and Research no. 3018/2025, dated January 13, 2025, on the approval of the minimum mandatory national standards required for awarding doctoral degrees, published in the Official Gazette no. 78 of January 29, 2025
(applicable to doctoral students admitted from 2025 onward) (link) - Order of the Ministry of National Education no. 5110/2018, dated September 17, 2018, regarding the approval of the minimum national standards for awarding doctoral degrees, published in the Official Gazette no. 817 of September 24, 2018 (link)
(applicable to doctoral students admitted before 2025) (link) - The National Guide for Writing Doctoral Theses related to the Field of Study (forthcoming publication)
- Sections concerning the graduation procedure in the Regulations of the Doctoral School to which you are affiliated