On 7 July 2017, we announced the winner of the seventh Lova Marjan Rens Master’s Thesis Award. The award ceremony took place during during the Lova International Conference at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The jury consisted of José van Santen, Marion den Uyl and Reinhilde König.
The first prize, for the best Master’s thesis in the field of gender studies in anthropology in the Netherlands, was awarded to Belén Gianquinta with her thesis Silenced Subjectivities and Misrepresentations – Exposing the contradictions of the international child marriage discourse (Human Rights, Gender and Conflict Studies, ISS).
Unfortunately Belén couldn’t be there, but we wholeheartedly congratulate her with her prize
The second prize was awarded to Menal Ahmad with her thesis The Fight – An ethnographic study on the relationship between gender, martial arts, and Iranian women’s citizenship (Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University).
The third prize was awarded to Afiah Vijlbrief with her thesis Genderfluidity: A qualitative study on the gender identity of the Amsterdam Genderfluids (Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).