Over the last two decades, the Fulbright Prize in American Studies has shaped the life of more than 30 academics. This year's Fulbright Prize in American Studies has been awarded to Marijana Mikić for her doctoral thesis, entitled Race, Space, and Emotion in Twenty-First-Century African American Literature, which “combines insights from cognitive affective research, narrative theory, African American studies, and Black geographies to examine how African American storyworlds interrogate emotions as varied as fear, hope, shame, guilt, anger, and grief as bound up with racial ideologies and the geographic enforcement of these ideologies.” Marijana was honored for her achievement on 20 October 2023 at the annual conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS). You can also watch the interview below to learn more about Marijana's thesis.
2023 Fulbright Prize in American Studies: Celebrating 20 years full of impact.
6 November 2023Read more about this year's winner, Marijana Mikić.
Marijana Mikić, winner of the 2023 Fulbright Prize in American StudiesThis award is based on an annual competition managed by the AAAS. The Fulbright Prize in American Studies is a means of acknowledging the enduring importance of American studies and the role of innovative research by young academics in Austria 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. For more information, see the page on the Fulbright Prize in American Studies.