The WCGS Book Prize recognizes first-time authors whose scholarly work provides a substantial contribution to our understanding of any aspect of German-speaking society.

In this interview, WCGS Director James Skidmore speaks with Sara Jackson, Associate Professor of German at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose book The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought (Camden House), has been shortlisted for the WCGS Book Prize for books published in 2021.

To learn more about the WCGS Book Prize, go to wcgs.ca.

The WCGS Book Prize recognizes first-time authors whose scholarly work provides a substantial contribution to our understanding of any aspect of German-speaking society.

In this interview, WCGS Director James Skidmore speaks with Phil Alexander, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Reid School of Music, whose book Sounding Jewish in Berlin: Klezmer Music and the Contemporary City (Oxford University Press), has been shortlisted for the WCGS Book Prize for books published in 2021.

To learn more about the WCGS Book Prize, go to wcgs.ca.

The WCGS Book Prize recognizes first-time authors whose scholarly work provides a substantial contribution to our understanding of any aspect of German-speaking society.

In this interview, WCGS Director James Skidmore speaks with Jeremy Best, Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University of Science and Technology, whose book Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire (University of Toronto Press), has been shortlisted for the WCGS Book Prize for books published in 2021.

To learn more about the WCGS Book Prize, go to wcgs.ca.