2021 Emerging Scholars Competition in Black Studies

Peter Lang is delighted to announce the results of the 2021 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Black Studies:

Winner for Imagining Black Europe

Diantha Vliet

Postcolonial Pete:

Race, Media, and Memory in the Politics of Dutch Identity

Runner-up for Imagining Black Europe

Charlotte Mackay

From Afropea to the Afro-Atlantic:

Evolving Identities across the Early Novels of Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome

Joint Winners for Counterpoints

Anne Potjans

‘Why Are You So Angry’: Anger and Rage in Black Feminist Literature

Lekha Roy

Towards Post-Blackness: A Critical Study of Rita Dove’s Poetry

In Honor of Rochelle Brock

Joint Winners for Black Studies and Critical Thinking

Joy Barnes-Johnson

How Black and Brown Educators Speak, Gather, and Reclaim Spaces of Joy in a Pandemic: Telling the Elephants’ Tale

Hope McCoy

From Congo to GONGO: Higher Education, Critical Geopolitics, and the New Red Scare

We congratulate our winners and runner-up! Thank you to our distinguished editorial board and to all those who took part in the competition.

The Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition is an annual competition in selected fields. Please check back here for announcements about upcoming competitions next year.

For more information, please contact Dr Laurel Plapp, Senior Commissioning Editor, Peter Lang Oxford. E-mail: l.plapp@peterlang.com.