At the 2025 Tiburtius Prize, the top award (1st Prize) was granted to Ben Miller of Freie Universität Berlin, Global History,  for his doctoral dissertation titled “In Search Of Lost Time: Primitivist Homomythopoetics and the Self-Invention of the White Gay Man.” 

In his work — supervised by Margrit Pernau — Miller examines cultural-theoretical narratives around queer identity, body images, and self-conceptions, providing a critical analysis of how “white gay men” construct personal and collective identities. Read more about the Tiburtius Pice 2025