It has been quite a few weeks for PCSer Anna Posbergh, whose scholarship has been recognized in the following ways:
1. Olympic Studies Centre PhD/Early Career Research Grant: Anna was awarded a PhD grant from the Olympic Studies Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland. The grant is intended for PhD students engaged in social science/qualitative research on the Olympic Movement, and will fund a month long stay in Switzerland, during which time Anna will pursue archival research at the Olympic Studies Centre. Her research project will explore the ‘scientization’ of fair play and ideas of fairness in sport policy, especially as manifest in transgender regulations. For more information on the grant see HERE.
2. Yale Summer Institute in Bioethics: In addition, Anna was recently accepted into a 7-week immersion program in bioethics at Yale University organized by the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. The purposes of the program is to develop a deeper knowledge of bioethics and understand how to incorporate bioethics into current scholarship and research. For more information on the program see HERE.
3. KNES GRIP award: Anna’s doctoral dissertation research will be, at least partly, funded by a $2500 award given by the UMD Department of Kinesiology, supported by the Gebhard-Phillips Graduate Student Fund. This award will fund a 2-week research trip to the International Olympic Committee meetings, in Monaco, March 2020. The purpose of the trip isto collect data (interviews with sport scientists, policymakers, and other stakeholders) for Anna’s dissertation. For GRIP award details see HERE.
4. Reading the Past Critically, the NASSH sponsored workshop designed to honor the influential scholarship of Dr. Susan Birrell. Anna (in conjunction with PCS alum, Sam Clevenger) had their paper–focused on the possibilities of using intertextuality as a decolonizing method when analyzing Western media representations of Caster Semenya–accepted at this prestigious workshop, to be held in Chicago, March 20-21, 2020. For more information on the workshop see HERE
Clearly, Anna has had a remarkable few weeks. Sincerest congratulations!
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