Awards and Prizes

A panel of judges was recently appointed to select the winner of the Wang Gungwu Prize for the best article in Asian Studies Review (ASR) for 2024. The panel has now decided on the winner. The President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), Associate Professor David Hundt, announced that the winner is Associate Professor Jenny […]

Applications for the Postdoctoral Writing Grant 2025 are now open and will close on Thursday 17 April 2025. The ASAA has established a Postdoctoral Writing Grant to assist PhD graduates to develop work for publication. This replaces what was formerly known as the ASAA Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Writing Grant consists of a one-off honorarium of

Applications for the John Legge Prize for the Best Thesis in Asian Studies in 2024 are now open and will close on Friday 2 May 2025. The John Legge Prize is one of seven prize/grant schemes offered by the ASAA. This prize recognizes cutting edge research performed by postgraduates across our broad field of research.

We are pleased to announce the six winners of the ASAA Event Grant. After reviewing a strong pool of applications, the Grant Committee is excited to support these outstanding projects. Congratulations to the following winners: Adam Zulawnik: Celebrating 60 years of the Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and Korea Yeow Tong Chia: 60 Years Since

Yamini Narayanan’s book, Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India (Stanford University Press 2023) has been selected by the MCR Prize Committee as the winner of the 2024 ASAA Mid Career Researcher Book Prize. A/Prof. Yamini Narayanan is an ARC Future Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.

The Committee for the 2024 John Legge ASAA Thesis Prize has awarded the first prize to two researchers: To Alison Darby (ANU) for: Patriotic Marriage: Eugenics, Colonial Intimacy and the Politics of the Marital Family in the Japanese Empire, 1931–1945. And, to Phyu Phyu Oo (Griffith University) for: The Role of the State in Preventing and Responding