Prof. Dr. Jordan Troeller is awarded the Leuphana Special Prize for Gender and Diversity Research for her outstanding academic achievements, which have led to the acquisition of an excellent funding format.

In her academic work, Jordan Troeller critically examines mythologies of motherhood. As an art historian, she uses works of art to question the dominant narratives of motherhood as the flip side of the innovative, future-oriented subject within the creative imperative of Western societies.

Her innovative research approaches, which move between established fields of research, are one of the foundations for her being awarded the prestigious Freigeist Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation.