Bettina Paetzold Award for Good Gender Education

It is the responsibility of the Academic Equal Opportunity Officer to promote research and teaching within the field of gender studies. For this reason, the Academic Equal Opportunity Officer created an award at the end of the Year of Gender 2016 (Genderjahr 2016) for outstanding teaching related to gender studies. After all, gender equality work only benefits from the results of research when the key findings of gender research are conveyed to students. 

All lecturers at the University of Bamberg can be nominated. Nominations can be submitted by all students of the University of Bamberg and by the Dean of Studies from all faculties. The Equal Opportunity Advisory Board selects potential award winners from these nominations, and those nominees can then apply with a statement about their teaching experience. As the Bettina Paetzold Prize is intended to serve as a career advancement tool, lecturers and people in permanent positions are not considered. However, they can be nominated for the Diversity Award.

The Award's Namesake

From 1989 to 1991, PD Dr. Bettina Paetzold was the first woman to serve as a Women's Representative at the University of Bamberg. She also researched and taught on topics of gender studies, such as role models in children's literature and the compatibility of motherhood and work. CV Bettina Paetzold(277.4 KB, 2 pages) (in German)


Award Winners & Nominees of the Bettina Paetzold Award

2023

Award Winner:

  • Yıldız Aşar: Research Assistant of American Studies with her Seminar "One Hundred Years of Herland: Reading Gilman's and Piercy's Feminist Utopias" 

Nominees:

  • Edgar Hirschmann: Research Assistant of Political Theory
  • Dr. Christine Kämpfer: Research Assistant of Iranian Studies
  • Assistant Professor Dr. Jan Lenhart: Junior Professorship for Educational Psychology
  • Lian Eisenhut: Lecturer of Pathopsychology
  • Carmen Trautner: Lecturer of Primary School Pedagogy and Primary School Didactics

Award Winners:

  • Leonie Ackermann and Caroline Oehlhorn: Student and Research Assistant of Information Systems, especially in the Service Industry, with a Seminar on Gender Aspects in Information Systems

Nominees:

  • Asar Yildiz: Research Assistant of American Studies
  • Elena Frech: Research Assistant of Empirical Political Science
  • Dr. Kerstin-Anja Münderlein: Research Assistant of English Literature
  • Gisa Stich: Part-Time Lecturer of Social Pedagogy and Social Services

Award Winner:

  • Daniel Mayerhoffer: Research Assistant of Political Theory with the Seminar "Striving for Gender Equality - Contributions of Positive Political Theory“

Nominees:

  • Lian L. Eisenhut: Part-Time Lecturer of Pathopsychology
  • Dr. Ellinor Morack: Lecturer of Turkish Studies
  • Kerstin-Anja Münderlein: Research Assistant of English Literature Studies
  • Dr. Miriam Schmaus: Research Assistant of Sociology, area Social Stratification

Award Winner:

  • Dr. Gundula Zoch: Post-Doc of Educational Decisions and Processes, Migration, and Returns to Education at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories with a seminar on inequality and social structures, specifically social inequality in the use of family policy benefits

Nominees:

  • Mahbub Alam: Lehrbeauftragter am Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
  • Daniel Mayerhoffer: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Politische Theorie 
  • Luisa Prokupek: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Frühkindliche Bildung und Erziehung
  • Safinaz Saad: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Professur für Arabistik

Award Winner:

  • Lena Janneck, Research Assistant of Old Testament Studies with a Seminar on Women in the Old Testament

Nominees:

  • Kai Fischbach und Ute Schmid: Präsident der Universität Bamberg und Inhaberin der Professur für Angewandte Informatik, insbes. Kognitive Systeme
  • Magdalena Pratter: Lehrstuhl für Soziologie 1
  • Dr. Judith Rauscher: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Professur für Amerikanistik
  • Dr. Gundula Zoch: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Soziologie 1

Award Winners:

  • Dr. phil. Corina Erk, Lecturer of Literature and Media Studies with a Seminar on the History, Theory, and Narration of TV Series
  • Dipl.-Päd. Fabian Hemmerich, Research Assistant of Elementary and Family Pedagogy with a Seminar on Theoretical Foundations in Elementary and Family Pedagogy: Childhood, Upbringing, and Gender

Nominees:

  • Dr. Ulrich Bauer: Biblische Einleitungswissenschaften am Lehrstuhl für Neutestamentliche Wissenschaften
  • Prof.Dr. Kai Fischbach, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Soziale Netzwerke, and Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid, Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Kognitive Systeme
  • Prof. Dr. Corinna Kleinert: Inhaberin der Professur für Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt längsschnittliche Bildungsforschung
  • Lena Stahl: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Sozialpädagogik

Award Winner:

  • Nanine Lilla: Lecturer for Primary School Pedagogy and Didactic with a seminar on gender sensitivity in general studies

Nominees:

  • Dr. phil. Corina Erk: Akademische Rätin a. Z. des Lehrstuhls Literatur und Medien am Institut für Germanistik
  • Prof. Dr. Kai Fischbach und Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid: Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Soziale Netzwerke und Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Kognitive Systeme
  • Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt, Judith Rauscher und Mareike Spychala: Professorin für Amerikanistik und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterinnen an der Professur für Amerikanistik
  • Lena Stahl: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Sozialpädagogik
  • Gundula Zoch: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Soziologie I

Reports on past award ceremonies during our annual ceremony ("Festakt") can be found on our blog (in German).