On Friday May 10, 2019, Lova celebrated 40 years of existence and with it awarded four theses, instead of three, for the Lova Marjan Rens Master’s Thesis Award 2019. The award ceremony took place at the end of the Lova Study Day at Leiden University, and the awards were handed out by Prof. Willy Jansen, Emeritus Professor of Radboud University.
In the photo above, from left to right:
- Nika Looman was awarded the third prize for the thesis Everyday Genderqueerness: Negotiating Dominant Notions of Dutch Citizenship through Everyday Practices in a Binary Gendered (Cultural Anthropology, Radboud University Nijmegen).
- Isadora Cardoso Vasconcelos received the fourth prize for the thesis Gender and Climate Change in Pathways of Development Encounters of National Policies with Gender Justice and Climate Justice (Globalisation and Development Studies, Maastricht University)
- Willy Jansen, Emeritus Professor of Radboud University, member of the jury of the award.
- Loes Oudenhuijsen was awarded the first prize for the thesis “You Have to Know How to Play, Otherwise They Will Catch You”: Young Women and the Navigation of Same-Sex Intimacies in Contemporary Urban Senegal (Research Master in African Studies, Leiden University)
- Marina de Regt, assistant professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Member of the jury and chair of the Lova board.
- Melody Jap was awarded second prize for the thesis Women Against Feminism: A Qualitative Research into the Understanding of Modern Western Anti-Feminism in the Context of an Online Community (Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam).