CRASIS Thesis Award 2023

Final call CRASIS Bachelor’s Thesis Award 2023

The CRASIS board invites submissions for the CRASIS Bachelor’s Thesis Award 2023. Four prizes of € 200 are available for the best Bachelor’s theses written at the University of Groningen or the Protestant Theological University in Groningen and dealing with the four departmentsrepresented in CRASIS: Ancient History, Theology and Religious Studies, Archaeology, Classics.

The deadline for submissions is 1 September 2023 . Students who wish to be considered can either nominate themselves or be nominated by their supervisor. In addition, the two highest-graded theses from each of the departments represented in CRASIS will be nominated automatically.

To be considered for the 2023 award, theses should have been marked between 2 August, 2022 and 31 August, 2023 . Submitted theses should have obtained a final grade of at least 8 (out of 10) or be accompanied by a recommendation from the supervisor.

Submissions should comprise:

• a digital, anonymised copy of the thesis

• a brief cover letter (max. one A4) which contains:

* name of the author

* the title and short summary of the thesis

* a description of the context (department, programme, supervisor, etc.) in which the thesis was written

* the final grade for the thesis

The thesis and cover letter should be sent as separate PDF attachments to the CRASIS secretary at crasis.aws@rug.nl. Assessments will take place on the basis of the anonymised thesis only, and will be carried out by an independent jury. Enquiries can be addressed to the chair of the jury, Dr Bärry Hartog, at p.b.hartog@pthu.nl. The winner of the 2023 Thesis Award will be announced at the first Ancient World Seminar in the 2023–2024 academic year (19 September 2023). For more information on CRASIS see https://www.rug.nl/research/centre-for-religious-studies/crasis/.