Loes Oudenhuijsen wins 2019 LOVA/Marjan Rens MA Thesis Award
Loes Oudenhuijsen, alumna of the Research Master in African Studies at Leiden University and currently a PhD candidate at the ASCL, is the main winner of the 2019 LOVA/Marjan Rens MA Thesis Award. Loes won the award for her thesis ‘You Have to Know How to Play, Otherwise They Will Catch You’. Young Women and the Navigation of Same-Sex Intimacies in Contemporary Urban Senegal, on which she graduated in 2018.
LOVA is an active network of engaged feminist anthropologists within and outside the Netherlands. Its members study gender in relation to a wide variety of topics such as development, sexuality, ethnicity, poverty, multiculturalism, conflict and globalization. The award ceremony took place at Leiden University on 10 May during the seminar 'Gender Moves', which was organised on the occasion of LOVA's 40th anniversary.
In December 2018 Loes won the 2018 MA thesis prize of Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality. So again: Congratulations Loes!
Other winners of the LOVA/Marjan Rens MA Thesis Award are (in chronological order):
Melody Jap (University of Amsterdam) Women Against Feminism: A Qualitative Research into the Understanding of Modern Western Anti-Feminism in the Context of an Online Community
Nika Looman (Radboud University Nijmegen): Everyday Genderqueerness: Negotiating Dominant Notions of Dutch Citizenship through Everyday Practices in a Binary Gendered Society
Isadora Cardoso Vasconcelos (Maastricht University): Gender and Climate Change in Pathways of Development Encounters of National Policies with Gender Justice and Climate Justice
Posted on 12 May 2019, last modified on 4 June 2019