GAPS Recognition Award
Basic data of the distinction
Type of award: Research award or other distinction
Awarded by: Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
Award given to: Gerfer, Anika
Announced at: 15/05/2018
Date of awarding: 15/05/2018
About the distinction
A complimentary prize has been awarded to: Anika GERFER (Münster University) for her graduate (MA) thesis “White Appropriation of Jamaican Creole in Reggae Music”. Thesis supervisor: Dr. Michael Westphal, 2017
Anlass der Preisverleihung: GAPS Annual Conference
Venue of award ceremony: Mainz
Link to the press release of the awarding organisation: https://g-a-p-s.net/graduate-award/
About the award
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. In addition to the Graduate Award, two recognition awards may be conferred. These are endowed as follows: • Free GAPS membership for two years (starting in the year of the award) • Payment of travel expenses (second-class train travel) and one night’s hotel accommodation for attending the award presentation at the GAPS annual conference as well as the fees for the conference The GAPS Graduate Award and the two recognition awards will be presented during the GAPS annual conference.
Type of award: Other prize for young scientists and scholars
Website of the award or committee: https://g-a-p-s.net
Zeitraum der Vergabe: since 2008