Area Studies Prize

CITAS and the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America offered a Prize for Outstanding Master's Theses in Area Studies at UR for the first time in 2020. The prize, now coordinated through DIMAS, promotes the development of research and teaching with relevance to area studies in the fields of social sciences, humanities, law and economics. It also demonstrates the value of the close cooperation between the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) and UR. 

Details of previous winners can be found on the archived CITAS pages.

Candidates can either nominate themselves or be nominated by their advisors. As well as students taking MA degrees, the prize is open to those completing Staatsexamen (in law for example) or those studying for a teaching degree.

As well as prize money, the winners also have the chance to publish in the Blog-Journal Frictions. Two winners of the prize in the inaugural edition, Jana Stöxen and Melanie Hussinger, have published aspects of their master’s thesis in contributions to the ScienceCampus’ blog-journal Frictions. More details on the previous winners of the Regensburg Area Studies Prize can be found below.

The winners of the 2023 prize will be announced shortly.