’Raising Profiles’

Gender Equality Office awards two prizes for gender studies and gender equality. The Gender Studies Prize and the Maria von Linden Prize were presented last Friday at a ceremony held in the former Fritz' Café in the University of Bonn's main building. With these accolades, the Gender Equality Office is honoring superlative theses and doctoral theses on gender and queer studies and outstanding commitment to gender equality. To raise the profile of gender research at the University of Bonn, the Gender Equality Office awards the Gender Studies Prize once a year in recognition of exceptional theses and doctoral theses that tackle an issue taken from the fields of gender or queer studies. This year, the award plus €500 in prize money went to three bachelor's graduates from the University of Bonn: - Joline Kretschmer, for her Philosophy thesis entitled "Gender as deeply diverse. How to dissolve the gender category dilemma" - Marina Krambrich, for her Philosophy thesis entitled "Das Spiel der Philosophie. Eine empirische Untersuchung geschlechtsspezifischer Narrative von der akademischen Philosophie unter Studierenden in Bonn" ("The Game of Philosophy.