The Dissertation award has been initiated by the Feminist Culture Fund Gender & Knowledge to stimulate and spread feminist knowledge with a particular focus on historical knowledge and a critical reflection on culture and science from an intersectional perspective. The award consists of 5.000 euros, of which a portion has to be spent on the dissemination of the research. It’s a collaboration between the Feminist Culture Fund Gender & Knowledge and the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies.
The Dissertation Prize Award Ceremony will take place on Friday October 31 at the Kanunnikenzaal of the Academiegebouw Utrecht (address: Domplein 29, Utrecht).
The three shortlisted nominees of 2025 are:
- Aranka Ballering: Twists and Turns. Sex and Gender Differences in the Illness Trajectories of Common Somatic Symptoms
- Rodante van der Waal: Birth Justice. From Obstetric Violence to Abolitionist Care
- Antonia Weiss: The City of Nature. Women and the Making of Green Space in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam and Berlin
The jury of 2025 consist of:
- Lies Wesseling, UM (chair)
- Petra Rudolf, RUG
- Liesbeth Lijnzaad, UM
- Maria Grever, EUR
- Benedicta Deogratias, University of Aruba (laureate 2023)
- Rosemarie Buikema, UU
The Dissertation Prize Award Ceremony will take place back-to-back with the closing reception of the annual RINGS Conference which is hosted by the UU Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) and the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) this year.
Schedule Dissertation Prize Award Ceremony:
16.30 – 17.00h: walk-in and coffee/tea
17.00 – 18.15h:
- welcome by Mineke Bosch, founder of the Feminist Culture Fund
- three shortlisted nominees will introduce their nominated PhD research
- the Dissertation Prize will be awarded by the chair of the jury Lies Wesseling and interviewed by Mineke Bosch
18.15 – 19.00h: drinks
We look forward to seeing you there!
Please register for the award ceremony by sending an email to: nog@uu.nl
Best wishes,
Feminist Culture Fund Gender & Knowledge and the NOG Board
