In order to encourage and reward research in English Studies, BAAHE offers an annual prize of 250 EUR for outstanding undergraduate dissertations written in English. As of 2008, the prize will alternate beween literature and cultural studies in one year and linguistics and translation studies in the next year, starting with literature and cultural studies. The rules and regulations applying to the BAAHE thesis award are the following:

• Each Belgian University or other Institution of Higher Education represented in BAAHE may nominate one outstanding dissertation (in literature or in linguistics, depending on the year) among those presented during the current or the preceding academic year (first or second exam session).
• Nominated dissertations must be submitted in triplicate to BAAHE Award, c/o Prof. Dirk Van Hulle, S.D. 108 - Departement Letteren, Universiteit Antwerpen, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen, by 30 September. The jury will meet in mid-October and reach a decision before the annual BAAHE meeting (usually in mid- to late November).
• Each dissertation will be read by at least three jury members, who will award it a grade on a scale of 100. The dissertation with the highest average will be awarded the BAAHE prize. Cases of ex aequo are to be avoided.
• The jury will be made up of the members of the BAAHE board, but may be extended to members co-opted by the Board (including ex-board members and retired members) for subdisciplines which are not their specialty.
• Jury members work on a volunteer basis. Board members will not be entitled to vote for dissertations from their own universities and a fortiori from their own students. Deliberations of the BAAHE jury are to remain confidential and its verdicts are not open to question.

The award will be presented at the annual BAAHE event. Winners may present their research at the Annual Meeting, and may submit a paper which will be considered for possible publication in the next year's issue of English Text Construction (subject to external peer review).

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Year	Area	Winner of the biannual award
2009	Linguistics and translation studies	Valérie Wysmantel (Lessius) Evidentiality in academic versus non-specialist medical and psychological literature: A comparative study (supervisor: Heidi Verplaetse, co-supervisor: Paul Sambre)
2008	Literature and cultural studies	Frederik Van Dam (KUL) Character and the career: Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn and the rhetoric of the Victorian state (supervisor: Ortwin de Graef)
Year	Linguistics and translation studies	Literature and cultural studies
2007	The prize for linguistics was not awarded in 2007.	Peter De Voecht (UA) Making up the mind: Intertextual identity in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy (supervisor: Luc Herman)
2006	Julie Bouveret (Institut Libre Marie Haps) Murray and Mandurah: A sequel history of the Old Murray District of Western Australia, by Ronald Richards (supervisor: Jean-Marc Lafontaine)	Sylvie Vranckx (ULB) Unveiling the sociology of neo-colonialism: Lee Maracle's feminist challenge to patriarchal racism (supervisor: Marc Maufort)
2005	Peter Petré (KULeuven) On the variables determining the life span of English prefix constructions (supervisor: Hubert Cuyckens)	Ruben de Baerdemaeker (UGent) It was relevant to dish herself: The depiction of American women in selected fiction and non-fiction by Henry James (supervisor: Gert Buelens)
2004	Julie Van Bogaert (UGent) Language ideologies in the media: The language policies and practices of a few European broadcasters (supervisor: Jim O'Driscoll)	Dorothée de Meester (UCLouvain) Rebecca's Tale: The voice of the transgressive wife (supervisor: Raphaël Ingelbien)
2003	Hendrik De Smet (KULeuven) Synchronic and diachronic variation in the non-finite comple-mentation patterns of the verbs "like", "love" and "hate" (supervisor: Hubert Cuyckens)	Jean-Luc Delghust (UCLouvain) Decadent unions: Decadence and relationship between text and image in "Salome" by A. Beardsley and O. Wilde and "The Sphinx" by Ch. Ricketts and O. Wilde (supervisor: Raphaël Ingelbien)
2002	There were no entries for the linguistics section.	Pieter Vermeulen (KULeuven) Disfiguring sympathy, silencing despair: Ethics and literature in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace (supervisor: Ortwin de Graef)
2001	Ellen Simon (UGent) The phenomena of connected speech in English, in contrast with German and Dutch: An applied phonological study (supervisor: Mieke Van Herreweghe)	Equal: Eva Thienpont (UGent) Cherchez l' homme: Masculinities in the plays of Oscar Wilde (supervisor: Nicole Rowan) Magali Claeskens (ULg) John Donne's Songs and Sonnets (supervisor: Marc Delrez)
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