Johanna Mestorf Prize

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The Johanna Mestorf Prize commemorates Johanna Mestorf , the second female professor in Germany, the first at the Prussian Royal University of Kiel . The award now recognizes outstanding doctoral theses in a field of human-environment research and landscape archeology. Academic recognition was first awarded in 2013 and is to take place every two years. The prize money of 3,000 euros is donated by the Johanna Mestorf Academy (JMA) and the Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes (GSHDL), both at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel (CAU).

proposals

A young researcher must be proposed for the award ceremony within two years of completing his doctorate . An excellent doctoral thesis is required. Supervisors and professors of the GSHDL and the JMA have the right to make proposals; National and international partners of GSHDL are also entitled to do so with a letter of recommendation for their candidates. It is possible to split the award; the money is intended to benefit the winners' scientific research.

Award winners

  • 2013: Sabine Neumann for her doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on artificial grottos on the Acropolis of Rhodes and Katherine Grillo for the study at the Washington University in St. Louis for ethnoarchaeological aspects of mobile livestock farming in Kenya
  • 2015: Silvia Balatti for the investigation of social and political organization and the way of life of the mountain peoples in the Zagros (today Iran) in the first millennium before our time (Mountain People in the Ancient Near East: The Case of the Zagros in the 1st Millennium BC.)
  • 2017: Annet Nieuwhof for the topic: Eight human skulls in a dung heap and more. Ritual practice in the terp region of the northern Netherlands, 600 BC - AD 300. (Eight human skulls in a dung heap and more. Ritual practice in the terp region of the northern Netherlands 600 BC - 300 AD)
  • 2019: Gianpiero Di Maida for the topic: Marks on the rocks. Rock and mobile art as an expression of the hunter-gatherers' groups Weltanschauung in the Sicilian landscape from Lateglacial to Early Holocene

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great researchers on the fjord.
  2. ↑ CAU press release 2013.
  3. ↑ CAU press release 2015.
  4. ↑ CAU press release 2017.
  5. ↑ 2019 International Open Workshop. January 7, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 (American English).