J. Griffith Rollefson, a PhD student in the Musicology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Riverside, California, has been awarded first prize in the graduate category in the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst essay contest, Changing Demographics: Migration Flow From and To Germany. Rollefson explored this theme in his essay, “Musical (African) Americanization: Hip Hop and Minority Identity in Berlin,” which was judged by an international panel of jurors. It can be read here.