GAPS Dissertation Award  2024

Basic data of the distinction

Type of awardResearch award or other distinction
Awarded byGesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS)
Award given toGerfer, Anika
Announced at27/03/2024
Date of awarding10/05/2024
Amount of prize money2000 EUR

About the distinction

The GAPS Dissertation Award 2024 goes to Anika Gerfer (Universität Münster) for her dissertation “Jamaican Creole in Global Reggae and Dancehall Performances: Language Use, Perceptions, Attitudes.” The dissertation was supervised by Profs. Ulrike Gut, Dagmar Deuber, and Edgar W. Schneider. Anika Gerfer will receive the award during this year’s annual conference in Zurich.
Anlass der PreisverleihungGAPS Conference
Venue of award ceremonyZurich
Link to the press release of the awarding organisationhttps://g-a-p-s.net/dissertation-award/#2024

Award winners from the University of Münster

Gerfer, Anika

About the award

The GAPS Dissertation Award is granted once every two years and recognizes an outstanding doctoral thesis that advances and expands in an exceptional manner the analytical and/or theoretical approach to Anglophone literatures around the world, to the study of varieties of English, or to other postcolonial cultural forms, practices, and media.
Type of awardDissertation award
Website of the award or committeehttps://g-a-p-s.net/dissertation-award/
Zeitraum der Vergabesince 2014

Awarded Activities & Results

Awarded doctoral examination procedures

White appropriation of Jamaican Creole in reggae and dancehall music
Candidate: Gerfer, Anika | Supervisors: Gut, Ulrike; Deuber, Dagmar | Reviewers: Gut, Ulrike; Schneider, Edgar
Period of time: 01/05/2017 - 31/01/2023
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster