Once a year the Bavarian Amercan Academy gives an award to an outstanding dissertation accepted at a Bavarian university. This dissertation should be dealing with questions related to North America or to inter-American topics within the Humanities in the broadest sense.
The prize money amounts to Euro 1,500 / with two choosen dissertations to Euro 1,000.
The Bavarian American Academy encourages doctoral advisors in all pertinent disciplines to nominate possible dissertations by April 15, 2021.
Please be aware that only those dissertations where the PhD examination procedure has been finished in 2020 can be accepted.
The application should include
To see the previous dissertation award winners please go to the German page, click here.