ASAA Presidents' Prize and DK Award
The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) awards an annual prize of $1,000 'to encourage and reward excellence in scholarship on Asia at the doctoral level, to publicize the best young Australian scholarship on Asia, and to encourage its publication in Australia.' The Prize results from the initiatives and financial contributions of ASAA's first Presidents.
Since 2004, the Presidents' Prize has been augmented by the DK Award, presented by the global book distributor, DK Agencies of New Delhi, to highlight its dealings with Australian academics and academic libraries since 1968. The DK Award provides the winner of the Presidents' Prize with the choice of books to the value of $500 (Australian dollars) from the DK website. (The price of books is listed on the website; the Award does not include postage).
The Presidents' Prize includes priority consideration for publication in one of the ASAA publications series.
Each year Australian universities are invited to nominate one dissertation awarded the Ph.D. degree in the previous year. Final selection is by a committee of prominent scholars appointed biennially by the Council of the ASAA. The criteria for the award are 'excellence in scholarship, relevance to Asia, and appropriateness for publication.'
Nominations by universities for the outstanding dissertation for which the Ph.D. degree was
conferred in 2009 should reach the Secretary of the Presidents' Prize Committee;
Dr Julian Millie
School of Political and Social Enquiry
Faculty of Arts
Monash University
VIC, 3800, Australia
by 10 July 2010.
The nomination should be accompanied by a copy of the thesis, a citation explaining its merits, and anonymous copies of all examiners' reports.
