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The Reults Are In! DAAD 2008 Essay Contest |
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Changing Demographics: Migration Flows from or to Germany
DAAD is delighted to announce the winners of our 2008 essay contest entitled Changing Demographics.
Erin Williams, a University of Central Florida senior from Jacksonville, Florida, has been awarded first prize in the undergraduate category in the DAAD essay contest, Changing Demographics: Migration Flow From and To Germany.
Williams explored this theme in her essay, “Confronting Modern Slavery: Germany’s Determined Fight against Human Trafficking,” which can be read below.
For submitting the winning essay, Williams will receive roundtrip airfare and a grant to conduct independent research in Germany this year. Her proposed research project is to examine migration trends and possible trafficking trends in one local area of Germany.
In the graduate category, first prize was awarded to J. Griffith Rollefson of Riverside, California, a PhD student in the Musicology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rollefson’s essay, entitled “Musical (African) Americanization: Hip Hop and Minority Identity in Berlin” can also be found below.
With the prize of roundtrip airfare and a two-month research grant, Rollefson plans to conduct interviews with minority recording artists from the record label Aggro Berlin.
 Click here to read Griff's ongoing blog during his research stay in Germany, "Der Angriff."
The competition was opened to enrolled undergraduate and graduate students from U.S. and Canadian institutions or students graduated from those institutions in academic year 2007-08.
“Erin and Griffith’s essays were chosen because they were not only interesting and well-written from a reader’s perspective, but they clearly explored the overall concept," said Peter Kerrigan, deputy director of DAAD New York. "The jurors on the selection committee also felt that their research proposals were strong and could benefit from a stay in Germany.”
Honorable mentions include: Alexandria Ruble, Christopher Newport University; and Utku Sezgin, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
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Category A 2nd Place: Alexandria Ruble |
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Click here to download Alexandria's essay.
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Category B 2nd Place: Utku Sezgin |
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Click here to download Utku's essay, “Going beyond Culture and Assimilating Immigrants: The Conversation that Germany Needs."
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Prizes |
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One winner was selected from each of the following categories.
Category A: Undergraduate students
Category B: Graduate and PhD students
Grand Prize:
- Round-trip airfare to Germany
- A two-month grant funding a study or research project in all academic fields to be carried out in Germany
- Health insurance during the two-month stay
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Competition Jury Panel |
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Nora M. Alter
Professor of Film and Media Studies, German Studies Affiliate Faculty Jewish Studies, and Women's Studies and Gender Research, Department of German and Slavic Studies.
University of Florida.
David Darby
Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Director, Ontario/Baden-Württemberg Exchange Program.
University of Western Ontario.
Craig J. Decker
Professor of German, Department of German and Russian Studies.
Bates College.
Michael Schüring
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History.
University of California at Berkeley.
Eva-Marie Ziege
Visiting Associate Professor,
Henry M.Jackson School of International Studies.
University of Washington.
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