Ten Master's theses recommended for faculty thesis award

Ten Master's theses have been recommended for the Faculty of Humanities thesis awards.

Best Master's thesis

Dominique van Zelm (Politiek en maatschappij in historisch perspectief):

"Most Excellent Majesties, Blest Guardians of Our Church and State": A Comparison of Religious and Secular Discourse on England’s Monarchs ruling after the Glorious Revolution, 1689, 1702 and 1714

Amber van Geerestein (Cultural History):

Tracing the Invisible: The gathering and circulation of forensic knowledge in nineteenth- century Dutch cases of criminal poisoning

Leonie Stolk (Nederlandse taal en cultuur (part time)):

‘O Spiegel van de deught!’: Onderzoek naar de roem van Maria van Reigersberch

Johanna Schulting (Taal, mens en maatschappij):

Topicalisatie in imperatieve zinnen in het Nedersaksisch en het Nederfrankisch: Een empirisch-descriptief onderzoek

Martine Oldhof (Biblical Studies):

Mindfulness in Paul: The possibility of a trichotomistic anthropology

Best Research Master's thesis

Eva Wissenburg (Literair vertalen):

Albert Camus terug in Afrika: Over het ontbreken van een koloniale context voor Albert Camus in Nederland

Niels Wildschut (Philosophy):

The Search for Being. Hölderlin on Thought and Unity

Steven van den Bos (Modern History):

Military Justice in the Dutch East-Indies: A Study of the Theory and Practice of the Dutch Military-Legal Apparatus during the War of Indonesian Independence, 1945-1949

Quirine van der Meer Mohr (Art History of the Low Countries in its European Context):

‘This made me a painter!’: J.M.W. Turner and the perception of Holland and Dutch art in Romantic Britain

Annemarie Van Dooren (Linguistics):

“I MUST OUT – OUT!”: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Modal Verbs and their Complements

Announcement of nominations and winners

At the end of August, a jury consisting of five Humanities scholars will nominate three candidates in each of the two categories. The winners will be announced during the opening of the new academic year at the Faculty of Humanities.