Graduate Award of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
Basic data of the distinction
Type of award: Research award or other distinction
Awarded by: Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
Award given to: Westphal, Michael
Announced at: 15/06/2011
Date of awarding: 15/06/2011
Amount of prize money: 500 EUR
About the distinction
Michael Westphal (WWU Muenster) has been awarded for his graduate thesis at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg on "A History of Jamaican Creole in the Jamican Broadcasting Media".
Anlass der Preisverleihung: GAPS Annual Conference
Venue of award ceremony: Hannover
Link to the press release of the awarding organisation: https://g-a-p-s.net/graduate-award/#2011
About the award
The GAPS Graduate Award recognizes outstanding graduation theses on new anglophone literatures and cultures as well as varieties of English. More details about the award can be accessed here. Each year, the Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien/ Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) confers the GAPS Graduate Award for young academics. The aim is to honour outstanding theses (undergraduate and master’s theses as well as state examination theses) on Anglophone postcolonial literatures and cultures as well as on the varieties of English submitted to universities and colleges in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Theses that were submitted outside of these countries are eligible for consideration if written by a student member of GAPS. The award winners are chosen by a three-person jury composed of university instructors. The Graduate Award for young academics was first conferred in 2008.
Type of award: Other prize for young scientists and scholars
Website of the award or committee: https://g-a-p-s.net/graduate-award/