2024 Winners
The 蓝莓视频 Centre for German Studies is happy to announce the winners of the 2024 Piller Award.
The winners are:
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- Amanda Hooper, PhD candidate with the History Department 鈥 The 鈥淐apital of the Holocaust鈥: Rethinking the Role of Auschwitz in Holocaust History.This project explores the ways in which Auschwitz, the former Nazi concentration-turned-death-camp, has become the central symbol of the Holocaust. To evaluate the evolving role and centralization of Auschwitz, this research examines major publications, public history sites, and Holocaust survivor testimony. Amanda鈥檚 dissertation will assess the weight of Auschwitz in Holocaust history and provide insight to moving beyond the singular camp to a more diverse, complete history of the Holocaust.
- Anna Kuhn, IcGS student with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies and the Universitaet Mannheim 鈥撎A Call for 鈥槹戮被灞鸢醭俨共曰邂? Identifying strategies of the New Right's Language and Literature Policy. In a time of widespread protests against right-wing extremism, this project exposes the political instrumentalization of German studies. Anna's research will be centred on听Verlag Antaios,听a right-wing German publishing house. Using discourse analysis and close readings of the material published by听Antaios,听Anna will examine the New Right鈥檚 language and literature policy and their invocation of 鈥奥颈诲别谤蝉迟补苍诲鈥听(resistance) to uncover how the German far right is justifying resistance against the government. Her evaluation will consider听how the term is framed, its inherent ideological perspectives, the literary context in which it is employed, and its intended purpose to听uncover unconscious manipulation in German language and literature.
About the Piller Award
The Cecilia and Late George Piller Graduate Research Awards were established to support excellent graduate students in the Faculty of Arts doing research into any aspect of German Studies.
The winners, chosen from a set of very strong applications, demonstrate the high calibre of the research into German studies being conducted by graduate students in the Faculty of Arts at the University of 蓝莓视频.
Each winner will receive a $4,000 prize to help fund their research.
For further information, please visit the Cecilia and Late George Piller Graduate Research Award website.
Contact
For inquiries, please contact the 蓝莓视频 Centre for German Studies (wcgs@uwaterloo.ca).