Winners Research Prize 2009

Research Prizes 2009

The Erasmus Prize Foundation yearly awards the Research Prizes. The Foundation grants a maximum of five prizes of 3,000 Euro in recognition of an exceptional PhD dissertation by a young academic researcher in the field of the humanities and social sciences.
The relevant faculties of the Dutch universities are asked to nominate candidates.

The Foundation received twentynine theses in 2009. The following five winners were selected.

Nadine Akkerman, The Letters of A Stuart Princess: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine of the Rhine, and the Queen of Bohemia
Supervisor: Prof. R.J.Lyall
Faculty of Arts, Free University Amsterdam

Richard Blauwhoff, Foundational Facts, Relative Truths. A Comparative Law Study on Children’s Right to Know their Genetic Origins
Supervisor: Prof. K.R.S.D. Boele-Woelki
Faculty of Law, Utrecht University

Marieke van den Brink, Behind the Scenes of Science. Gender Practices in the Recruitment and Selection of Professors in the Netherlands
Supervisors: Mrs Prof. Y.W.M. Benschop, Mrs Prof. W.H.M. Jansen
Faculty Management Sciences, RU Nijmegen

Dirk-Jan Verdonk, Het dierloze gerecht. Een vegetarische geschiedenis van Nederland
Supervisor: Prof. W.W. Mijnhardt
Faculty Humanities, Utrecht University

Wieke Vink, Creole Jews. Negotiating Community in Colonial Surinam
Supervisor: Prof. A.A. van Stipriaan Luïscius
Faculty of History and Arts, Erasmus University Rotterdam