On Wednesday (February 15th) 13 young scholars were honored by the Universitätsgesellschaft Bielefeld (UgBi) [University Society] for the best dissertation projects 2016 at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University.

Among them are two Alumni of the BGHS: Mahshid Mayar (History Department, Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology) and Dr. Ole Pütz (Faculty of Sociology).

Mahshid Mayar has published a dissertation entitled Citizens and Rulers of the World: American Children and World Geography at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. The dissertation by Dr. Ole Pütz is entitled: Strategic Planning in Meetings: Anti-Nuclear Groups between Consensus and Conflict.

The BGHS cordially congratulates both BGHS Alumni.

For more information about the Alumni BGHS see:

Alumi-Profile Mahshid Mayar

Alumi-Profile Ole Pütz

For a detailed report on the doctoral thesis awards in 2016, see: uni.aktuell

For further information about the more than 100 Alumni of the BGHS and their disseration projects see:

www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Personen/Alumni/