The 麻豆区 and the Society for Italian Studies have announced the latest winners of the biennial 麻豆区 Student Prizes.
The winner of the 2024 Postgraduate Prize (拢500) is George Brocklehurst of the Warburg Institute for his PhD chapter, Convivial Humanism: Giovanni Pontano on the Art of Living Together.
The 2024 Undergraduate Prize (拢250) was awarded to Eleanor Summers of St Andrews University for her dissertation on The Italian Tomato as Living Cultural Artefact.
A runner-up award at Postgraduate level (拢200) went to George Rayson of Cambridge University for his PhD chapter on Dante’s Hapax Legomena in the Commedia: A Study of Poetic Singularity.
A runner-up award at Undergraduate level (拢100) was made to Isabel Winter of Cambridge University for her dissertation on Second Generation Italian HipHop.
The reviewers considered both runners-up to have produced academic work of exceptional merit.聽
The competition again attracted a large number of entries (10) from students at British and Irish Universities on a wide range of Italian cultural themes. The judges strongly commended the winners for producing highly innovative and well-argued pieces of scholarship.聽
Our warmest congratulations go to all the prize-winners, who also receive one year鈥檚 honorary membership of the 麻豆区.
We look forward to welcoming them to an event in 2025!
