Gender Studies Prize

In 2003 the North American Studies Program and the Equal Opportunity Officer of the University of Bonn initiated the Gender Studies Prize.

Financed by the Equal Opportunity Officer this prize comprises a grant of € 500,00. It is awarded every year to the student who has written the most outstanding transdisciplinary thesis (BA, MA, Magister, Diploma, Staatsexamen) on an issue pertaining to the large field of gender studies. The prize thus also means to encourage students to engage questions and methods of gender studies.

Candidates are asked to submit their thesis together with an expertise from their professor („Erstgutachten“) to PD Dr. Eva-Sabine Zehelein, Forum Women and Gender Studies, Franziskanerstraße 4, 53113 Bonn. For further information please see the Forum's website.

So far, the prize has been awarded to:

2009
Maria Theißen, “'From Hop Sing to Hiro': Asians in US-amerikanischen Fernsehserien”

2008
Sascha Schmitz, “Mädchen und Videospiele im Gender-Kontext: Nutzungsverhalten, Spielkultur und neue Märkte”

2007
Sarah Schaschek, “'A woman's right to shoes': Feminism Revisited in Sex and the City”

2006
Maria Weißweiler, “Health, Age, Illness: Konstruktionen von Männlichkeit in Jonathan Franzens The Corrections und Philip Roths Patrimony: A True Story”

2005
Katrin Dauenhauer, “‘Undoing the Self’: Performativity and Subject Formation in the Works of Kathy Acker”

2004
Susanne Breuer, “Slick Guys, Badmen, Cop Killers: The Image of the Gangster in African American Culture”

2003
Silke Kinzig, “Gender on the Trail to Political Office – Zur Unterrepräsentation von Frauen im U.S.-amerikanischen Regierungssystem”