Marc Bloch Prize in Early Modern and Modern European History (15th-21st centuries)

Winners of the Marc Bloch Prize

2015 (for MA theses defended in 2013 or 2014)

79 MA theses in Early Modern and Modern European History (15th-21st centuries) were received for the 2015 European University Institute Marc Bloch Prize. The theses were in 12 different languages, with applications representing 24 different European and non-Europeannationalities. Of these 79 theses the following 9 were shortlisted for the prize:

• Alessandro Bonvini (Italy), Gli esuli italiani in America Latina durante il Risorgimento, Università degli Studi di Milano
• Richard Bräuer (Germany), Studie zur Anwendbarkeit der Außenhandelstheorie auf koloniale Situationen in ausgewählten Produktgruppen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Meredith Gaffield (USA), 'To pursue peaceably and with honesty my line of business’: Commercial Reputations and Political Claims among Emigres in Philadelphia, 1798, Johns Hopkins University
• Germán Jiménez Montes (Spain), Mercaderes flamencos en Sevilla durante los inicios de la revuelta neerlandesa (1565-1585), Universidad de Sevilla
• Edgar Pereira (Portugal), Pombalismo, Jesuítas e a Terra nas Velhas Conquistas.Confisco e Redistribuicão de propriedade fundiária na Goa Setecentista (1759-1777), Universidade Nova de Lisboa
• Hannah Puckett (USA), Narrating the Nation: Nationalist Discourse on the Muslim Presence in Bulgaria, New York University
• Wouter Reitsema (Netherlands), A-Status in the Cold War. An entangled history of Vietnamese boat refugees and the Netherlands (1979-1981), VU University Amsterdam
• Andrei Sorescu (Romania), The Concept of ‘Proletariat’ in Late Nineteenth Century Romania: Imagining an Underclass, UCL SSEES
• Markus Wurzer (Austria), Anton(io) Rainer. Das Tagebuch eines Südtiroler Bersagliere aus dem Abessinienkrieg 1935-1936, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

After a careful analysis of all submitted works, the jury has decided to take an ex-aequo decision. The 2015 EUI Marc Bloch Prize will be split between:

• Edgar Pereira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), for his thesis “Pombalismo, Jesuítas e a Terra nas Velhas Conquistas. Confisco e Redistribuicão de propriedade fundiária na Goa Setecentista (1759-1777)” and
• Hannah Puckett (New York University), for her thesis “Narrating the Nation: Nationalist Discourse on the Muslim Presence in Bulgaria”

2013 (for MA theses defended in 2011 or 2012)

• Åsmund Borgen Gjerde (University of Oslo), for his MA thesis Reinterpreting Soviet ‘Anti-Zionism’. An Analysis of ‘Anti-Zionist’ Texts Published in the Soviet Union, 1967-1972
• Danilo Scholz (EHESS Paris), for his MA thesis Alexandre Kojeve et la philosophie allemande: l’homme, l’histoire et la politique (1926-1947)

2011 (for MA theses defended in 2009 or 2010)

• Margherita Trento (Università degli Studi di Torino), for her study Semantiche della conversione. Traduzioni e traslazioni di linguaggi nell’opera del missionario gesuita Roberto Nobili 
• Florian Wagner (Universität Tübingen / Université de Provence à Aix-en-Provence), for his MA thesis Zwischen Konfrontation und Kooperation: Die Kolonialverbände und die „Marokko-Frage“ in der französischen, deutschen und spanischen Gesellschaft von 1900 bis 1912 

2009 (for MA theses defended in 2007 or 2008)

• Milos Jovanovic (Central European University, Budapest), for his MA thesis Constructing the National Capital: De-Ottomanization and Urban Transformation in 19th Century Belgrade