Article Prize
The above photograph of the newspaper printing of Deli Courant in Medan, North Sumatra, in the first half of the 20th century comes from the Rijksmuseum Collection and is now in the public domain. Find it in the online collection at https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200518813 .
The Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies welcomes submissions for its annual article prize.
Articles written by an Asianist based in the US Southeast, on a topic relevant to Asian studies, and published in the current year are eligible.
Submissions can be sent to the past-past president of SEC-AAS (see the executive committee listed by clicking here). The deadline is generally October 31, for the prize to be awarded at the annual meeting the following January.
Recent Winners
2025: Prof. Emily Matson (research affiliate at the University of Virginia) for “Complicity and Cold War Politics: The Long Shadow of Unit 731 in Sino-U.S. Relations” published in the Journal of American-East Asian Relations
2024: Prof. Pamela Lothspeich (professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) for “Pandit Radheshyam’s Ramayan: A sourcebook for Ramlila scripts in the orbit of Bareilly,” published in the Journal of Hindu Studies
2023: Dr. Yanhua Zhou (independent scholar based in Richmond, VA), for “When Public Art Becomes the ‘Mass Line’: A Case Study of Dinghaiqiao Mutual Aid Society,” published in Socially Engaged Public Art in East Asia Space, Place, and Community in Action
2022: Prof. Charlie Yi Zhang (assistant professor of gender studies at the University of Kentucky) for “Releasing Masculinity for a More Just World: Lessons of How to 'Be Water' in Hong Kong,” published in the Journal of Asian Studies
2021: Prof. Harshita Mruthinti Kamath (Visweswara Rao and Sita Koppaka Assistant Professor in Telugu Culture, Literature and History at Emory University) for “Kṣētrayya: The Making of a Telugu Poet,” published in The Indian Economic and Social History Review