ASAA prizes

ASAA prizes

Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Myanmar with Phyu Phyu Oo, John Legge Prize Winner 2024

Congratulations on being awarded the John Legge Prize 2024 for the Best Thesis in Asian Studies in Australia in 2023! Can you tell us a bit about your thesis? What is the topic it explores and what did you find? My thesis, titled “The Role of the State in Preventing and Responding to Conflict-Related Sexual […]

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More-Than-Human Becomings with Sophie Chao, Winner of the ECR Book Prize 2024

Congratulations on being awarded the ASAA Early Career Book Prize 2024! Can you tell us a bit about the book? What’s the topic explored, and how did you first become interested in the topic? In the Shadow of the Palms is an ethnographic account of one Indigenous community’s encounter with oil palm in the Indonesian-controlled

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Politics of the Marital Family in the Japanese Empire with Dr Alison Darby, John Legge Prize Winner 2024

Congratulations on being awarded the 2024 John Legge Prize for the Best Thesis in Asian Studies in Australia in 2023! Can you tell us a bit about your thesis? What’s the topic it explores and what did you find? My dissertation examines the politics of the marital family in the Japanese empire. It focuses on

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Making Indonesia Clean from Waste with Dr Lukas Fort, John Legge Prize Winner 2023

Congratulations on being awarded the 2023 John Legge Prize for the Best Thesis in Asian Studies in Australia in 2022! Can you tell us a bit about your thesis? Indonesia faces a major waste problem; its residents are habituated to littering, landfills are overflowing, and seas and rivers are clogged with plastic. Indeed, Indonesia is

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Interview with Dr Annie Wu, 2023 Postdoctoral Writing Grant Recipient

Congratulations on being awarded an ASAA 2023 Postdoctoral Writing Grant! Can you tell us a bit about your current research? My current research is a monograph about the circular migration between Australia and Timor-Leste. It’s an ethnographic and longitudinal piece about seasonal agricultural workers’ lives in Australia. In addition, it’s about the socio-economic and community

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Excavating the History of ‘Asia’ in Global Politics: An Interview with Ahmad Rizky M. Umar

Congratulations on being awarded an ASAA 2023 Postdoctoral Writing Grant! Can you tell us a bit about your current research? I currently have three research agendas that lie in the intersection between International Relations, Global History, and Asian Studies. First, I am currently transforming my PhD thesis into a book project. My thesis, which I

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