The second Women in German Memorial Fund Annual Prize for a Dissertation by a WiG Member was awarded to Mariatte Denman (UC Davis) on Friday night at the WiG 1998 Conference. The prize is endowed by the Women in German Memorial Fund and awarded in memory of treasured WiG members now deceased.

The title of Mariatte’s dissertation is: Staging the Nation: Representations of Nationhood and Gender in Plays, Images and Films in Postwar West-Germany (1945-1949). Her Doktormutter is Anna Kuhn (UC Davis). The panel of judges for this year’s prize were Jeannine Blackwell (University of Kentucky), Nancy Kaiser (University of Wisconsin), and Ursula Mahlendorf (UC Santa Barbara). Congratulations to Mariatte and thanks to the judges and Marjorie for all of their hard work.