Gender Award
In 2012, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities launched an award for outstanding academic publications or theses in the field of gender and difference as part of its equality plan. Applications for the 2025 competition are possible until 15 April 2025.
Since 2023, the prize for outstanding student theses on gender and difference topics has been endowed with prize money of 250 euros.The Faculty of Arts and Humanities would like to thank the Universitätsgesellschaft Potsdam e.V. for sponsoring this award.
The award winners of previous years are:
2024
Lina Marie Heimann receives the prize for outstanding student theses on gender and diversity issues.
Title of the Thesis: "Queerness in der Serie A League of Their Own"
2023
Mx Gaul receives the prize for outstanding student theses on gender and diversity issues.
Title of the Thesis: "'Tangle it up and toss in some garbage from the street!': Metaphorical Conceptualisations of Gender in a Non-Binary Community"
2022
| Prize for outstanding scientific publication projects or qualification work in the field of gender and diversity | |
Hannah Klümper | From Brock to Brett: Purity and Power in US American Rape Culture, 2016 - 2018 (Masterarbeit) |
| Prize for outstanding student thesis in the field of gender and diversity issues | |
| Malina Riedl | Queere Elemente in digitalen Spielen: Trans*-Repräsentation und Genderdiversität in virtuellen Welten am Beispiel von The Last of Us Part II (Bachelorarbeit) |
2021
| Prize for outstanding scientific publication projects or qualification work in the field of gender and diversity | |
| Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss | Feminist Solidarities After Modulation (Promotion) |
| Prize for outstanding student thesis in the field of gender and diversity issues | |
| Margot Lachkar | Lesben, Privatdetektivinnen, Pornodarstellerinnen, frustrierte Heterosexuelle: die literarische und feministische Revolution von Virginie Despentes anhand ihrer weiblichen Figuren (Masterarbeit) |
2020
| Prize for outstanding scientific publication projects or qualification work in the field of gender and diversity | |
| PD Dr. Judith Klinger | Fremdes Begehren: Spiele der Identitäten und Differenzen im späten 12. Jahrhundert (Habilitation) |
| Prize for outstanding student thesis in the field of gender and diversity issues | |
| Lilly Elise Ahlmeyer | Geschlechterkonstruktionen in der Nachkriegszeit (Masterarbeit) |
| Natalia del Carmen Eduardo | Feminist and Decolonial Practices of Remembering in Postwar Guatemala (Bachelorarbeit) |
2019
Prof. Dr. Dirk Wiemann with the award winner Aileen Jorena Behrendt
Title of the thesis: "A Literature Between Movement and Standstill - Dynamic Stasis and Gender Politics in the 1930s Novels of Nancy Mitford, Stevie Smith, Rosamond Lehmann and Jean Rhys" (Dissertation)
2018
Prof. Dr. Gertrud Lehnert with the award winner Mario Skrobic
Title of the Thesis: "Schwellenraum 'Gender' Eine kulturtheoretische Untersuchung des sozialen Geschlechts" (Masterarbeit)
2017
Prof. Dr. Johannes Haag with the award winner Maria Seidel
Title of the Thesis: "'Van goede getuigen voorzien...' Historische Stellenanzeigen als Quellen in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Das Beispiel niederländisch-jüdischer Dienstmädchen" (Masterarbeit)
2016
Dr. Judith Klinger with the award winner Josefine Schummeck
Title of the Thesis: "'Damn it, I am whoever I am when I am it': Die Inszenierung von Identität und Bisexualität im Rap - eine multimodale und kontextbezogene Analyse der Künstlerinnen Azealia Banks und Angel Haze" (Masterarbeit)
2015
Dr. Judith Klinger with the award winner Melanie Kagels
Title of the Thesis: "The Visibility of Homosexual Women in the U.S. Homophile Movement of the 1950s and 1960s" (Masterarbeit)
2013
Dr. Judith Klinger with the award winner Dr. Judith Coffey
Title of the Thesis: "Die Liebesgeschichte als Ort der Produktion moderner bürgerlicher Subjektivität" (Dissertation)
From the laudation: ‘From a queer/feminist perspective, Ms Coffey examines the production of gendered bourgeois subjectivity through the Victorian love discourse using the example of selected 19th century English novels. As Ms Coffey demonstrates in her knowledgeable and original readings of the novels examined, this discourse makes the subjectivities it produces - in particular the topoi of masculinity and femininity - appear to be natural. By succeeding in an exceptional way not only in analysing this process of naturalisation, but also in ‘denaturalising’ it and thus making it open to criticism, Ms Coffey's dissertation proves to be applicable far beyond the subject of Victorian aesthetics and ideology.’
