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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The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) is delighted to announce the appointment of Associate Professor Malini Sur and Associate Professor Muhammad Kavesh as the new co-editors of the ASAA South Asia Book Series. Founded in 1986 and published in partnership with Routledge since 2010, the ASAA South Asia Book Series has long provided an
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The ASAA Council is thrilled to announce the recipients of the Postgraduate Conference Awards, which will support the attendance at the 2026 conference by some of best emerging scholars in Asian Studies. This year, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Association, we have been able to offer far more awards than in previous
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