Awards and Prizes

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!

ASAA’s Book Prizes are now open for applications and nominations! The Reid Prize, ECR Book Prize and MCR Book Prizes are now open and will close on 15 November 2023. The Reid Prize 2023-2024 Nominations for the Reid Prize will close on 15 November 2023. The Prize is awarded biennially to the book that has

The ASAA is pleased to announce the winner and honourable mentions of the John Legge thesis prize for 2022: Winner: Lukas Fort, University of Western Australia, ‘Making Indonesia clean from waste: The role of culture in the development of new waste management services in Sumbawa, Indonesia’ This eminently readable thesis offers fascinating and nuanced ethnographic