Augsburg Science Prize for Intercultural Studies
The Augsburg Science Prize for Intercultural Studies has been awarded since 1998 for scientific work on the subject of intercultural coexistence by the city of Augsburg , the University of Augsburg and the association “Forum Intercultural Living and Learning”. Since 2007 it has been divided into a main award and a sponsorship award, each endowed with 5000 euros and 1500 euros. The main prize is awarded for post-doctoral theses and dissertations, the sponsorship prize for master's, diploma and other qualification theses.
The objective of the award when it was founded was to:
"Young academics researching at German universities are (to) interested in the overarching topic 'Intercultural Reality in Germany: Questions and Answers on the Path to an Open Society' and to reward outstanding young academic work on this topic accordingly."
A jury of ten people will decide on the award. The chairman of the jury is the doctor Eckhard Nagel .
The association "Forum Intercultural Living and Learning (FILL)" is an "amalgamation of representatives from the fields of culture, politics, administration and economy with foreign associations and with representatives of social, intercultural and denominational practice in Augsburg". The price is advertised publicly; all work that is submitted must have been completed and submitted to a German university from the past two years before the current application deadline.
Award winners
| year | Science Prize Winner | Title of thesis, university | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Alfredo Märker | Immigration in the Federal Republic: Universalistic and particularistic aspects of justice. Diploma thesis, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg | |
| 1999 | Encarnacíon Gutiérrez Rodríguez | Female jugglers and tightrope walkers - Deconstructive analysis of biographies in the field of tension between ethnicization and genderization: self-understanding, action strategies and localization perspectives of female intellectuals in the context of labor migration. Dissertation, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main | |
| 2000 | Yasemin Karakasoglu-Aydin | Religious orientations and educational ideas. An empirical study of Turkish teacher training and education students in the Ruhr area. Dissertation, University of Essen | |
| 2001 | Christine Langenfeld | Integration and cultural identity of immigrant minorities in the Federal Republic of Germany - an investigation using the example of the general education system. Habilitation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | |
| 2002 | Gaby Strasbourg | Marriage behavior and choice of partner in the immigration context: marriages of the second generation of migrants of Turkish origin. Dissertation, University of Osnabrück | |
| 2003 | Azra Pourgholam-Ernst | The health experience of women from different cultures. Women and Health: An empirical study of the health experience of foreign women in Germany from a salutogenic perspective. Dissertation, University of Dortmund | |
| 2004 | Jörg Alt | Life in the shadow world. Illegal migration problem complex. New insights into the living conditions of illegals from Munich and other places in Germany. Dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin | |
| 2005 | Ute Koch | The Establishment and Reproduction of Social Boundaries: Roma in a West German City. Dissertation, University of Osnabrück | |
| 2006 | Ulrike Bechmann | Abraham - incantation or source of clarification? Biblical theological and religious studies studies on the Abraham paradigm in interreligious dialogue. Habilitation, University of Bayreuth | |
| 2007 | Grand Prize | Louis Henri Seukwa | Competence as a habitus of the art of survival - On the relationship between competence and migration as reflected in refugee biographies. Dissertation, University of Hamburg |
| Sponsorship award | Anne Weibert | Media integration of ethnic minorities - comparison of local reports on Turks in Germany and Hispanics in the USA. Diploma thesis, University of Dortmund | |
| 2008 | Grand Prize | Liliana Ruth Feierstein | From threshold to threshold: side aisles (r). A reading of gestuality towards the 'others' from the perspective of Jewish thought. Dissertation, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| Sponsorship award | Stefan Wellgraf | Migration and media. How television, radio and print look at the others. Diploma thesis, European University Viadrina Frankfurt / Oder | |
| 2009 | Grand Prize | Marc Oliver Thielen | Where else to live? - Migration, masculinity and sexuality in biographical narratives of Iranian men in Germany. Dissertation University of Frankfurt |
| Sponsorship award | Olga Krahn | Local identity and community. Participation of ethnic repatriates in “Socially Integrative City” programs - shown in the Piusviertel in Ingolstadt. Diploma thesis, University of Eichstätt . | |
| 2010 | Grand Prize | Riem playhouse | Who is Muslim here? Dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin |
| Sponsorship award | Christian Issmer | The influence of metaperceptions on contact experiences and attitudes in the intergroup context. Diploma thesis, Philipps University of Marburg | |
| 2011 | Grand Prize | Kien Nghi Ha | In the mix. Post-colonial forays into the cultural history of hybridity. Dissertation, University of Bremen |
| Sponsorship award | Darja Klingenberg | Humor in Migration. Phenomena of crossing borders. Master's thesis, University of Frankfurt | |
| 2012 | Grand Prize | Maren Möhring | Foreign gastronomy. Migrant business start-ups, new places of consumption and the internationalization of nutrition in the Federal Republic of Germany. Habilitation, University of Cologne |
| Sponsorship award | Michaela Brosig | Neukölln unlimited? Life worlds and action strategies of young women and girls with a migration background. Master's thesis, Free University of Berlin | |
| 2013 | Grand Prize | Aladin El-Mafaalani | Educational climbers from disadvantaged backgrounds. Habitual transformation and social mobility among locals and people of Turkish origin. Dissertation, Ruhr University Bochum |
| Sponsorship award | Jessica Pahl | The importance of the body in intercultural processes of understanding. Master thesis, Ruhr University Bochum | |
| 2014 | Grand Prize | Heike Hanhörster | Owners of Turkish origin in migrant areas. Dissertation, TU Dortmund |
| Sponsorship award | Isabell Collien | Processes of Intercultural Opening - The Example of Public Administration in Berlin. Diploma thesis, Free University of Berlin | |
| 2015 | Grand Prize | Miriam Schader | Religion as a Political Resource? The religious and political participation of African migrants in two major European cities. Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and Institut d'études politiques de Paris |
| Sponsorship award | Felix Maas | Integration discourse and integration policy in the context of the city. A comparative narrative analysis of the integration discourse in the context of the development of city-wide integration concepts in Dortmund and Frankfurt aM. Master thesis, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | |
| 2016 | Grand Prize | Donja Amirpur-Ahrandjani | Disabled due to migration? On the interdependence of the perception of disability and structural framework conditions in the context of migration-related heterogeneity. University of Bremen |
| Sponsorship award | Romy Schulze | On a mission ?! Colonial Mission and Neocolonial Mission and Volunteer Reports in Comparison. University of Cologne | |
| 2017 | Grand Prize | Ilka summer | The violence of the collective knowing better - classification battles for the recognition of foreign professional qualifications in Germany. Dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin |
| Sponsorship award | Helen Hockauf | The presentation of refugees in contemporary literature. Writing as an ethical process of dignity. Master's thesis, University of Augsburg | |
| 2018 | Grand Prize | Christine Bear | Migration in adolescence. Psychosocial challenges between separation, trauma and educational advancement in the German school system , dissertation, Philipps University Marburg |
| Délia Nicoué | Migration and knowledge - migration paths and stages in the learning process of young migrant women on the way from Ethiopia to Germany , dissertation, University of Bayreuth | ||
| Sponsorship award | Dennis Barasi | Racism-related interpretation patterns using the example of refugee policy in universities , master's thesis, University of Bremen | |
| 2019 | Grand Prize | Christine Lang | The production of diversity in city administrations. Change and persistence of organizations in the migration society , dissertation, University of Osnabrück |
| Sponsorship award | Aylin Karabulut | Discrimination experiences of students * with an immigration history 'in the school system of the Federal Republic of Germany. A qualitative study at secondary schools with special consideration of racist discrimination , master's thesis, University of Duisburg-Essen | |