Bettina Hitzer was awarded the 2016 Walter de Gruyter Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
The prize can be awarded every two years for outstanding scientific achievements.
Bettina Hitzer, head of a Minerva research group at the Center for the History of Emotions, was awarded the 2016 Walter de Gruyter Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) for her outstanding scientific achievements in the field of humanities. Bettina Hitzer’s distinguished historical research is empirically diverse and theoretically ambitious. The Walter de Gruyter Prize jury has praised Bettina Hitzer’s books for their analytical clarity and accuracy. The Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, is awarded by the Walter de Gruyter Foundation every two years for outstanding scientific achievements in a thematic area relevant to de Gruyter Publishing, preferably in the humanities field.