2024 Emerging Scholars Competition

Peter Lang is delighted to announce the results of the 2024 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Environmental Humanities:

Winners 

Yolanda López-Maldonado 

Indigenous Knowledge Explained 

and 

Amy Ainsworth 

The Ecological and the ecoGothic in German Literature and Culture (1885-1930)  

to be published in the Plants and Animals: Interdisciplinary Approaches book series 

We congratulate our winners! Thank you to our distinguished editorial board and to all those who took part in the competition.  

The Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition is an annual competition in selected fields. Please check back here for the announcement for next year’s competition. 

For more information, please contact Dr Laurel Plapp (l.plapp@peterlang.com) or Dr Phil Dunshea, (p.dunshea@peterlang.com). 

History

The Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition (previously known as the Young Scholars Competition) is an annual competition for early career researchers in selected fields. It has been held every year since 2011, in fields such as Black Studies, Irish Studies, Women’s Writing, Education, French Studies, and more.  

In each competition, book proposals for monographs are invited from emerging scholars to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. Winners receive a contract for a fully funded book and the title of winner. Runners-up and other participants may also have opportunities to publish. 

We’re proud to have a community of over 30 winners of the competition over the years, and we’re pleased to feature some of our winning books. Please watch the interviews with three winners of our 2019 French Studies competition – Polly Galis, Mathew Rickard, and Natalie Berkman – to learn what winning the competition has meant to them.