Dissertation Award of the Bavarian American Academy
Once a year the BAA recognizes and rewards a graduate student whose outstandig dissertation has been accepted at a Bavarian University. This dissertation should be dealing with questions related to North America or inter-American topics within the Humanities in the broadest sense.
The prize money amounts to €1,500 / with two chosen dissertations, the prize money will be divided.
The Bavarian American Academy encourages doctoral advisors in all pertinent disciplines to nominate possible dissertations by April 1, 2025.
Please be aware that we only accept dissertations that completed the PhD examination in 2024
The application should include
- a short explanation for the nomination,
- copies of all letters of recommendation, the grade awarded, and
- one copy of the dissertation itself.
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You would like to nominate a dissertation for the Bavarian American Academy dissertation award?
Please send an e-mail to Dr. Christoph Straub via straub@amerika-akademie.de.
Our Award Recipients
Bayerische Amerika-Akademie
2024
Julia Rössler (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt):
"Drama after Postmodernism: New Aesthetics of Mimesis on the Contemporary Stage"
Bavarian American Academy
2023
Annabelle Meier (University of Würzburg):
"Die „Jellinek-These“ vom religiösen Ursprung der Grundrechte"
Private
2022
Nicole Anna Schneider (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
"Visual Protest, Viral Images, and Virtual Participation: Protest and Photography in the Contemporary Movement for Black Lives"
Leonhard Simon
2022
Maximilian Buschmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
"Hungerstreik: Transnationale Geschichte einer Protest- und Subjektivierungspraxis USA, ca. 1880-1945"
Bavarian American Academy
2021
L. Sasha Gora (LMU Munich)
"Culinary Claims: A Cultural History of Indigenous Restaurants in Canada"
Sarah Louise Earnshaw
2020
Sarah Louise Earnshaw (LMU Munich)
"Freedom Will be Defended: The Human Rights Regime of Truth and Standards of Sovereignty in U.S. Security Policy"
Cedric Essi
2020
Cedric Essi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
"Interracial Family Memoirs: Claiming Genealogies Across the Color Line"
Bavarian American Academy / left to right: Dr. Judith Rauscher, Liv Birte Buchmann
2019
Dr. Judith Rauscher (University of Bamberg)
"Poetic Place-Making: Nature and Mobility in Contemporary American Poetry"
Liv Birte Buchmann (University of Regensburg)
"Commemorating Abraham Lincoln the Transnational Way. Lincoln Monuments in Great Britain"
Bavarian American Academy / left to right.: BAA director Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, Florian Tatschner,
2018
Florian Tatschner (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
"The Other Presences: Reading Literature Other-Wise after the Transnational Turn in American Studies"
Bavarian American Academy
2018
Michael Oswald (University of Passau)
"Reframing Conservatism? Die Tea Party als strategische Bewegung"
Bavarian American Academy / left to right: Nathalie Aghoro, BAA director Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, Stefanie Edigy
2017
Nathalie Aghoro (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
"Sounding the American Novel: Voice in Twenty-First Century Fiction"
Stefanie Egidy (Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg/Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn)
"Verfassung und Finanzkrise: Die verfassungsrechtliche Dimension des Finanzkrisenmanagements in Deutschland und den USA"
Bavarian American Academy / left to right: BAA director Prof. Dr. Barbara Hahn, Dr. Katrin Horn
2016
Dr. Katrin Horn (University of Würzburg / Diss.: Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
"Camp / Pop: Interventions into Pop-Cultural Discourses of Gender and Sexuality"
Bavarian American Academy / left to right: Dr. Christian Schmidt, BAA director Prof. Dr. Barbara Hahn
2015
Dr. Christian Schmidt (University of Bayreuth / Diss.: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
"Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to Be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction"
Bavarian American Academy / left to right: Dr. Juliane Braun, Dr. Sebastian Huhnholz
2014
Dr. Juliane Braun (University of Würzburg)
"Petit Paris en Amérique? – French Theatrical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana"
Dr. Sebastian Huhnholz (LMU Munich)
"Krisenimperialität: Romreferenz im US-amerikanischen Empire-Diskurs"
Bavarian American Academy / Dr. Dorottya Ruisz, BAA director Prof. Dr. Klaus Benesch
2013
Dr. Dorottya Ruisz (LMU Munich)
"Umerziehung durch Englischunterricht? US-amerikanische Reeducation-Politik, neuphilologische Orientierungsdebatten und bildungspolitische Umsetzung im nachkriegszeitlichen Bayern (1945-1955)"
Dr. Till Werkmeister (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
"'Domestic Nation': Der sentimentale Diskurs US-amerikanischer Romane zum elften September 2001"
Bavarian American Academy / left to right: Timo Müller, BAA director Prof. Dr. Klaus Benesch
2011
Dr. Timo Müller (University of Augsburg)
"The Self as Object in Modernist Fiction: James, Joyce, Hemingway"
Bavarian American Academy / left to right: BAA director Prof. Dr. Klaus Benesch, Christina Hein, BAA director Prof. Dr. Helmbrecht Breinig
2010
Dr. Christina Judith Hein (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
"Representations of Whiteness, Looking Relations, and Trans-Difference in Louise Erdrich's Tracks, Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus, Craig Womack's Drowning in Fire, and Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer"
Bavarian American Academy / Dr. Kristin Acker, Dr. Sascha Pöhlmann
2009
Dr. Kristin Acker (University of Würzburg)
"Internationalisierung im Einzelhandel: Eine institutionentheoretische Analyse der US-Expansion des deutschen Discounters Aldi"
Dr. Sascha Pöhlmann (LMU Munich)
"Pynchon's Postnational Imagination"
Bavarian American Academy
2008
Dr. Edith Szlezák (University of Regensburg)
"La langue elle part avec les gens: Franco-Americans in Massachusetts"
Bavarian American Academy
2008
Dr. Alexandra Ganser (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
"Gender, Space, and Mobility in American Women's Road Narratives, 1970-2000"
Bavarian American Academy / BAA director Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gebhardt, Dr. Birgit Däwes
2007
Dr. Birgit Däwes (University of Würzburg)
"Native North American Theater in a Global Age: Sites of Identity Construction and Transdifference"
Bavarian American Academy / left to right: Dr. Matthias S. Fifka, Dr. Ingrid Gessner, BAA director Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gebhardt
2006
Dr. Ingrid Gessner (University of Regensburg)
"From Sites of Memory to Cybersights: (Re)Framing Japanese American Experiences"
Dr. Matthias S. Fifka (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
"Unternehmensverbände in den USA: Interessenvermittlung im pluralistischen System"
2005
Dr. Christoph Schärtl (University of Regensburg)
"Die Anwendung des Spiegelbildprinzips im Rechtsverkehr mit ausländischen Staatenverbindungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des deutsch-amerikanischen Rechtsverkehrs"
Bavarian American Academy / Dr. Tanja Zinterer, BAA director Prof. Dr. Helmbrecht Breinig
2004
Dr. Tanja Zinterer (University of Augsburg)
"Politikberatende Kommissionen: Ihr Beitrag zu Politikwandel, dargestellt an der Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples und der Unabhängigen Kommisssion Zuwanderung"
Bavarian American Academy / Dr. Sebastian Domsch, BAA director Prof. Dr. Helmbrecht Breinig
2004
Dr. Sebastian Domsch (University of Bamberg)
"Absenz – Simulation – Karneval: Eine Untersuchuchung der postmodernen Erzählverfahren in Robert Coovers gesamtem Romanwerk"
2001
Dr. Klaus Lösch (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
"Interkulturalität: Kulturtheoretische Prolegomena zum Studium der neueren indianischen Literatur Nordamerikas"
Dr. Harald Zapf (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
"Dekonstruktion des Reinen: Hybridität und ihre Manifestationen im Werk von Ishmael Reed"
2000
Dr. Alexander Kautzsch (University of Regensburg)
"The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English: An Empirical Comparison of Early Sources"
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