Call and award regulations

The Interdisciplinary Forum Gender and Diversity Studies (IFGD) annually awards the Prize of the Department of History and Cultural Studies for Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin for an outstanding Magister or Master's thesis in this field.The prize is announced annually in May.

Value of award: 500 €

Application

Applications are open to all Magister and Master graduates who graduated in the past two semesters, i.e. between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2019, and whose thesis has been assessed as very good.

Right of proposal

All academic members of the department are entitled to make proposals, as a rule the supervisors of the Master's thesis. Self-application is also possible and wellcome.

Assessment

Doctoral members of the IFGD will review the submitted works. If necessary, other doctoral members of the Department of History and Cultural studies may also be consulted.

Application Documents

1. All supervisors' assessments (Gutachten)

2. Curriculum vitae

3. Informal letter

4. Magister- or Master's thesis (one hard copy and one electronic version)

Award

The Prize of the Department of History and Cultural Studies for Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin will be awarded during the semester closing ceremony of the department in the summer semester.

Address

Freie Universität Berlin

FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften

Interdisziplinäres Forum Gender und Diversity Studies (IFGD)

Fachbereichsverwaltung

Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin

The prize was awarded for the first time in 2014. History: The former winners

2014
Eva Marie Lehner (History):  "'keine rechte nasen und mund gehabt'. Identitätskonstruktionen in den Tauf- und Sterberegistern der Pfarrei Sulzbach 1543 bis 1627" 2014
Christian Liclair (Art History): "Repräsentationen von AIDS und die Rolle des Körpers in der künstlerischen Auseinandersetzung im New York der 80er Jahre" 2015
Nadine Eisert (Jewish studies and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology): "Göttin oder Kultbild? ‟Aschera” im Spiegel literarischer, epigraphischer und ikonographischer Quellen" 2015
Miriam Kurz (Islamic Studies): "„Doing Gender, Doing Morality“: Ferid Heiders Entwurf islamischer Männlichkeit im wertepluralen Kontext Deutschlands" 2016
Sara Weydner (History): "'The Hour of Malthus Has Struck': The Foundation of the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Discourses of International Family Planning" 2017 Ramona Krammer (Public History): „Was […] für angst und not unter uns gewesen, ist unmüglich zu beschreiben“ - Gewaltdarstellungen in Selbstzeugnissen des Dreißigjährigen Krieges und ihre Präsentationsmöglichkeiten in Geschichtsausstellungen“ 2019 Victoria Hugeslhofer (Islamic Studies): „They see me, they see Muslim, man, refugee. How young Syrians in Germany experience visibility and negotiate their identities” 2022 Lisa Phongsavath (Global History): „The Trade of Upland Slave Girls and French Colonial Abolition in Laos“