On 13 June 2013, the prizes of the fifth Lova Marjan Rens Master’s Thesis Award were handed out in a ceremony at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam at the end of the annual Lova Study Day. In the picture above prize winners Natashe Lemos Dekker and Ilona Hartlief are accompanied by jury chair Marion den Uyl, the partner Kees Visser of late Marjan Rens, and award organiser Marina de Regt. Prize winner Tessa de Vries could not participate in the meeting.
Natashe Lemos Dekker was awarded the first prize for her thesis Politics of Bereavement: Women’s Narratives of Continuing Bonds in a Post-Dictatorial Argentine Society (Research Master Gender and Ethnicity at Utrecht University).
Tessa de Vries was awarded the second prize for her thesis Negotiating the Female Body: An Anthropological Case Study of Muslim Women Playing Sports in a Globalized Cairo (Master Cultural Anthropology at University of Groningen).
Ilona Hartlief was awarded the third prize for her thesis Making Absence Visible: Dialogues in Peru on the Challenges to the Practices and Concepts of Feminism Posed by Theories as De-Colonization and Borderthinking (Master Women, Gender and Development, International Institute for Social Studies).
