@drhannahrobbins Thank you for serving on the panel Hannah! We couldn’t run the organisation and these awards without the hard work of our awesome panel judges 🙂
@drhannahrobbins Thank you for serving on the panel Hannah! We couldn’t run the organisation and these awards without the hard work of our awesome panel judges 🙂
Serena Shah @warwickuni was also awarded an honorable mention for her essay “John F. Kennedy’s Foreign Policy: Unmitigated Disaster or Unqualified Success?” Congrats Serena!
This year was the first that we ran our UG Essay prize for scholars of colour. It was awarded to Gabriel Starkey @BristolUni for his essay entitled “Jazz Freedom = Black Freedom!! – Free Jazz, Civil Rights and the Cold War”
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The panel judges were also very impressed by the essays submitted by Kate Marshall (Sussex) & Maritsa Tsioupra-Lewis (Sussex) who were both awarded honorable mentions. Congrats! (and well done @SussexUni!)
Our UG Essay Prize went to Emilie Cunning @cunning_emilie from @UCLAmericas for her essay entitled “To what extent does #BlackLivesMatter represent a new departure in African-American Protest?”. Well done Emilie!
All BAAS winners are mentioned in the slides here: https://www.baas2021.com/awards2021 and our website will soon be updated to reflect that. Let’s start with the youngins, shall we? They ARE the future of our field 😎🤩!
Did you enjoy @BAAS_2021 ? We sure did! Our closing/award ceremony was a blast!
Want to find out about our awardees and the incredible work they’re doing? Then FASTEN YOUR Twitter belt because this is our #BAAS2021 AWARD THREAD! 🏅🏆🏆🏆
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The award subcommittee will also take a moment to explain and discuss the recent changes that have been made to the awards with the goals of inclusivity and sustainability in mind.
This will be an opportunity to celebrate our wonderful winners, from best undergraduate essay to Graduate teaching assistantships to U Wyoming and U New Hampshire, etc