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Annual Fulbright Prize in American Studies, 2010
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| The Austrian-American Educational Commission
(Fulbright Commission) is pleased to announce that the Public Affairs
Section of the U.S. Embassy in Vienna has agreed to provide an annual
award of € 1.000 for the best thesis in American studies. This award
is based on an annual competition managed by the Austrian Association
for American Studies. The Fulbright Prize is a means of acknowledging
the enduring importance of American Studies and the role of innovative
research by young Austrian scholars in contributing to the fulfillment
of the Fulbright Program's mandate to promote mutual understanding between
the peoples of Austria and the United States of America. The purpose of this award is to recognize superior academic achievement in the field of American Studies (Amerikanistik) in the broadest sense of the word and hence includes all relevant ancillary disciplines and departments at Austrian universities (e.g., comparative literature, history, political science, sociology, etc.) There are no specific topical or methodological limitations on submissions. Advisors of students completing a traditional thesis (Magister), a Master's thesis in the new Bologna curricular regime, or a doctoral thesis in relevant disciplines at Austrian universities in the course of the 2009-2010 academic year are encouraged to nominate distinctive work of their students for review. Nominations for this award consisting of a cover letter from the thesis advisor and a copy of the thesis should be sent to Astrid M. Fellner Dept. of British, North American, and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Saarland University FR 4.3/ Gebäude C5 3 Postfach 15 11 50 D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany fellner@mx.uni-saarland.de The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2010. A committee will review applications, have the work of semi-finalists subject to external review, and nominate a finalist. The winner of the Fulbright Prize in American Studies 2010 will be announced at the next AAAS meeting. Recipients of the Fulbright Prize: 2009: MMag. Cornelia Klecker "Skip and Rewind. When Time Gets Out of Line in Mainstream Film" (University of Innsbruck) 2008: Mag. Katharina Kurzmann „Outside the Imagined Community? The Discourse on Latin American Immigration in the United States“ (University of Vienna) Dr. Martin Senn “ Arming to Threaten the Peace of the World. A Constructivist Approach Towards the Rogue State Concept” (University of Innsbruck) 2007: Dr. Christian Quendler: "Framing Fiction: Initial Framings in the American Novel from 1790 to 1900" (Universität Graz) and Mag. Astrid Maria Brunner: "Grrl Power for Sale? Ambivalent Resistance in Feminist Subcultures" (Universität Wien) 2006: Armin Erger: "Revolution in Military Affairs: Mode of Warfare, Transformation & US Amerikanische Debatte" (University of Innsbruck) and Astrid Koblmüller: "Swordswomen and Urban Warriors: The Female Hero in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood among Ghosts and Sara Paretsky's Indemnity Only, Deadlock, and Killing Orders" (University of Salzburg) 2005: Helene Graupp: "The Construction of History in Don DeLillo's Libra" 2004: Corinna Dirisamer: "Die Entdeckung Amerikas im Internet. Zur Konstruktion und Inszenierung von Geschichte im World Wide Web" 2003: Renaud Tschirner: "The Relevance of Contemplation: The Evolution of Ezra Pound's Aesthetics" |
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| The Austrian-American
Educational Commission (Fulbright Commission) endeavors to update the information on this site on a regular basis, but cannot guarantee its accuracy at all times. |
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