Dr. Julia Borst – Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
the African Literature Association's annual meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, on May 27, 2023. JuliaBorst received the award for her article “Imagining Afrodescendance and the African Diaspora in Spain: [...] It was published in the “Research in African Literatures” journal. The article, in which Dr. JuliaBorst summarizes key findings of her ongoing DFG project, addresses the question of how Afrodescendence [...] academic journals. The committee that decided on the allocation of the award highlighted in particular Borst’s merits in bringing visibility to a marginalized research subject and in furthering a global debate