Graduate Award of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)

Basic data of the distinction

Type of awardResearch award or other distinction
Awarded byAssociation for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
Award given toWestphal, Michael
Announced at15/06/2011
Date of awarding15/06/2011
Amount of prize money500 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 PreisverleihungGAPS Annual Conference
Venue of award ceremonyHannover
Link to the press release of the awarding organisationhttps://g-a-p-s.net/graduate-award/#2011

Award winners from the University of Münster

Westphal, Michael

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 awardOther prize for young scientists and scholars
Website of the award or committeehttps://g-a-p-s.net/graduate-award/