GAPS Dissertation Award 2024
Basic data of the distinction
Type of award: Research award or other distinction
Awarded by: Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS)
Award given to: Gerfer, Anika
Announced at: 27/03/2024
Date of awarding: 10/05/2024
Amount of prize money: 2000 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 Preisverleihung: GAPS Conference
Venue of award ceremony: Zurich
Link to the press release of the awarding organisation: https://g-a-p-s.net/dissertation-award/#2024
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 award: Dissertation award
Website of the award or committee: https://g-a-p-s.net/dissertation-award/
Zeitraum der Vergabe: since 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 |