The Brigitte Schnegg Prize jury is honoured to announce that the 2025 prize is awarded toDr. Pamela Ohene-Nyako for her outstanding dissertation "Black European Women’s Intersectional Thought and Internationalism (1965–2001)", whose thematic contribution and socio-political relevance were highly praised!
The jury also awarded an honorable mention to the following work:
- Dr Charlène Calderaro
For the PhD dissertation “Far-righting Feminism? Criminalising Street Harassment in France and Britain” (2024, University of Lausanne)
- Dr Nora Helen Komposh
For the PhD dissertation “Bodies, Borders, Berry Fields: The Planetary-Intimate in Agricultural Labor Migration” (2024, University of Bern)
- Dr Lovis Noah A. S. Cassaris
For the published book “Die deutsche Sprache queeren – Zur geschlechtergerechten Sprachpraxis im Hochschulkontext” (Bielefeld: transcript, 2025)
Pamela Ohene Nyako
©Desiré Clark
Pamela Ohene-Nyako, PhD, is a historian of Black feminisms and internationalisms in Europe (20th Century). She authored several articles and chapters on these topics, and is the co-editor of the book Un/Doing Race : Racialisation en Suisse/ Rassifizierung in der Schweiz (Seismo, 2022). She is currently an SNSF postdoc.mobility fellow affiliated to the Laboratoire les Afriques dans le monde (LAM) at Sciences Po Bordeaux. There, she continues her work on Black women’s transnational activism with a special focus on African immigrant women’s mobilizations in Francophone Europe. In parallel to her academic work, Pamela is the founder of Afrolitt’, a bilingual literary and educational platform she runs since 2016.
2025 award ceremony and talks
The SAGS warmly invites you to celebrate the laureates during the award ceremony on Friday, October 31 at 6:30pm. During the event, the laureates will have the opportunity to present their work.
Venue: University of Neuchâtel, Room R.S - 38, Espace Tilo-Frey 1
Online: contact yann.fanti(at)unine.ch to receive the Webex link