{"id":9125,"date":"2025-10-02T19:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/?p=9125"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:36:52","slug":"awarding-of-the-gasca-dissertation-prize-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/en\/awarding-of-the-gasca-dissertation-prize-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Awarding of the GASCA Dissertation Prize 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dissertation prize of our association was awarded at the general meeting of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA) on 1 October in Cologne.<\/p>\n<p>First prize went to Laibor Kalanga Moko for his work \u2018Sensing the Colonial Order of Things: Maasai Materialities and Ethnographic Museums\u2019 (nominated by Prof. Dr. Paola Ivanov, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin).<\/p>\n<p>The second prizes went to Sabine Netz for her dissertation \u2019Staatsb\u00fcrgerschaft als Ideal und Fiktion: Alterskategorisierungen und materielle Lebensverh\u00e4ltnisse im deutschen Staatsb\u00fcrgerschafts- und Migrationsregime\u2018 (nominated by Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm, University of Bayreuth) and Barbara Maria L\u00f6hde with \u2019Cattle Economies and Social Reconfigurations in the Urban Space Pastoralist and Capitalist Entrepreneurship in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso&#8221; (nominated by Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Schareika, University of G\u00f6ttingen).<\/p>\n<p>We warmly congratulate the three prize winners and their supervisors and wish them all the best for their future careers.<\/p>\n<p>The GASCA Dissertation Award was established at the association&#8217;s general meeting in October 2017 and is awarded every two years. Outstanding ethnological doctoral theses from across the German-speaking world that are based on ethnographic research or deal with topics related to the history of the discipline are eligible for nomination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dissertation prize of our association was awarded at the general meeting of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA) on 1 October in Cologne. First prize went to Laibor Kalanga Moko for his work \u2018Sensing the Colonial Order of Things: Maasai Materialities and Ethnographic Museums\u2019 (nominated by Prof. Dr. Paola Ivanov, Freie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9126,"href":"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions\/9126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dgska.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}