The following elected positions on the ASAA Executive and Council fall vacant in January 2027, and are now open for nomination. The term of office is two years. To qualify for nomination, a person must be a current financial member of the ASAA, nominated by two current financial members of the ASAA, and consent to nomination on this form. Please note that
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A panel of judges was recently appointed to select the winner of the ASAA Mid-Career Book Prize for 2026. The panel is pleased to announce the winner as: Dr Sophie Chao from the University of Sydney for the book Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger, Duke University Press, 2025. ASAA President, Associate
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A panel of judges was recently appointed to select the winner of the ASAA Early-Career Book Prize for 2026. The panel is pleased to announce the winner as Dr Justine Chambers from the Danish Institute for International Studies for the book Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar, ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series,
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The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) is pleased to announce that Dr Maggie Paul, a Lecturer in Politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, has won the 2025 John Legge Prize. Dr Paul completed her PhD in the Department of Politics and International Relations, the School of Social Sciences, at the University of Adelaide. Since 1997,
The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) is seeking expressions of interest (EOIs) from individuals or teams of scholars who can edit its flagship journal, Asian Studies Review (ASR), for a single four-year term starting in January 2027. The ASAA will provide $10,000 each year to support the editor/s-in-chief of Asian Studies Review. These funds
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The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) is pleased to announce the recipients of the ECR Support Scheme awards, a new initiative that has been introduced to support the attendance at the 2026 Biennial Conference by Early Career Researchers. The scheme was proposed and coordinated by the ASAA’s ECR Representative, Dr Soyeon Kim, and this
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