Applied History alumnus Gijs Hoekstra has won the 2024 Expatriate Archive Centre (EAC) Master’s Thesis Award, for his exceptional thesis “Parallel Lives or Overlapping Worlds? Explaining the development of the social lives and interactions of Mediterranean migrants in the Rotterdam port region, 1960 – 1980” under supervision of prof. dr. Hein Klemann. Gijs wrote part of his thesis during his internship at the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam, where he was able to source important material from their collection. The winning thesis will receive a €500 prize, and the executive summary will be published online by the EAC and partner organisations involved in this project.
The EAC Master’s Thesis Award was created to celebrate and reward outstanding master’s theses that deepen our understanding of the impact of expatriation on people’s lives. The award is open for submissions through a bi-annual call, after which the jurors select the winning thesis. The EAC Thesis Award is organised in partnership with Families in Global Transition, The International Metropolis Project, the International Centre for Archival Research, TheHagueOnLine, ACCESS Netherlands and DutchNews.nl. The EAC Master’s Thesis Award, established in 2019, will hold its next round in 2026.
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Read more about Gijs’ winning thesis here.