Graduate Paper Prize
The above miniature painting of Nawab Mir Qasim Ali Khan of Bengal comes from the Rijksmuseum Collection and is now in the public domain. Find it in Rijksstudio at http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.28279 .
The Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies welcomes submissions for its annual Graduate Paper prize.
Papers should have been written by a Master’s or doctoral student in the US Southeast, on a topic relevant to Asian studies, and must be nominated by a professor or advisor.
Submissions can be sent to the past president of SEC-AAS (of SEC-AAS (see the executive committee listed by clicking here). The deadline is generally October 31, for the prize to be awarded at the annual meeting the following January.
Recent Winners
2025: Dah Kim (doctoral student at the University of Georgia) for the paper “Female Subjectivity, Female Body in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian”
2024: Nelson Jiajie Meng (master’s student at the University of Kentucky), for the paper “Travel of Dora and Nora: On Women’s Identities and the Writing of Disease in Zhang Ziping’s The Last Happiness, Black Romance, and Red Mist”
2023: Anqi Liu (doctoral student at the University of Georgia) for the paper “Between Betrayal and Loyalty: The Futile Language and the Absolute Chineseness.”
2022: Sabrina Simpson (Rhodes College) for the paper “Animal Ethics in Thai Buddhism”