Please join us in congratulating Dr. Christina Becher-Tiessen on receiving the Offermann-Hergarten-Preis for her dissertation, now published as a book, "Zwischen Mensch und Pflanze. Vegetabile Hybride in literarischen und grafischen Texten des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts" (Wallstein 2024). The Offermann-Hergarten Prize recognizes outstanding achievements in the Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cologne.
Dr. Becher-Tiessen was part of the dual-degree program between the University of Arizona and the Universität zu Köln and successfully defended her dissertation in November 2023.
You can read more about the prize here:
https://phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/aktuelles/mitteilungen/offermann-hergarten-preise-2025
The first drop-down menu contains a description of her project:
https://phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/forschung/auszeichnungen-und-preise/offermann-hergarten-preis.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch Dr. Becher-Tiessen, on this well-deserved recognition!