Jasper Trautsch, Alumnus of the Graduate School of North American Studies, is the winner of the Rolf Kentner Prize for excellent dissertations of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies in 2013. The theme of Jasper Trautsch’s dissertation in the field of history has been „Inventing America: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Formation of National Identity, 1789-1815"”.

Further information on the Rolf Kentner Prize can be found here
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/meldungen/2013/m20131014_trautsch.html