Awards and Prizes

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

Sophie Chao’s book, In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press 2022), has been selected by the ECR Prize Committee as the winner of the 2024 ASAA ECR Book Prize. This year’s ECR Prize Committee included Professor Julian Millie (Monash), Professor Mina Roces (UNSW) and Professor Kaori Okano (La

The Wang Gungwu Prize for the best Asian Studies Review article in 2023 has been awarded jointly to Thi Gammon and Shuk Man Leung.  Thi Gammon is an Associate Lecturer and Researcher at Kings College London and was awarded the Wang Gungwu Prize for the article “Your Bodies are Our Future: Vietnamese Men’s Engagement with Korean

Applications for the 2024 John Legge Prize for the Best Thesis in Asian Studies in 2023 are now open and will close on 5 April. The first prize consists of a cash award of AUD $2,000. The writer of the selected thesis will receive a certificate and priority consideration for publication in one of the

Nominations and applications for the ASAA’s Reid Prize and the Mid-Career Researcher Book Prize has been extended to 15 December 2023. Read more about the Reid Prize here and nominate a work here. Read more about the MCR Book Prize here and apply to the prize here. The ASAA looks forward to hearing from you!