Dr Birke Häcker awarded the Therese von Bayern Prize 2015

Dr Birke Häcker, Fellow of All Souls College, has been awarded the Therese von Bayern Prize 2015 by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.  This prize, awarded jointly with four other female academics, has been granted every three years since 1997 in commemoration of Princess Theresa of Bavaria (1850-1925), an avid ethnologist, zoologist/botanist and prolific travel writer, who in 1897 became the first woman ever to receive an honorary doctorate from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.