At the annual business meeting of SEC-AAS, the 2024 prize winners were announced.
The 2024 undergraduate paper prize went to Sam Dietrich of UNC-Chapel Hill for his paper entitled “Privacy, Psychology, and the Panopticon in Xia Jia’s Short Stories.” This paper was written in Prof. Robin Visser’s class, CHIN 545 “Chinese Science Fiction“.
The 2024 graduate paper prize went to Nelson Jiajie Meng of the University of Kentucky, for his paper entitled “Travel of Dora and Nora: On Women’s Identities and the Writing of Disease in Zhang Zipeng’s The Last Happiness, Black Romance, and Red Mist.” This paper was written under his advisor, Prof. Charlie Yi Zhang.
The 2024 article prize went to Prof. Pamela Lothspeich of UNC-Chapel Hill for her article “Pandit Radheshyam’s Ramayan: A Sourcebook for Ramlila Scripts in the Orbit of Bareilly,” published in the Journal of Hindu Studies.
The 2024 book prize goes to Prof. Gennifer Weisenfeld of Duke University for her book Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan (University of Chicago, 2023). Gennifer Weisenfeld’s book creatively uses visual sources from across Japanese life in the 1930s and 1940s to bring to life the modernist cultural dimension of air defense. Looking at bombs, airplanes, gas masks, and other related themes in magazines, pamphlets, movies and every kind of public art, she presents a fresh take on Japan’s home front in the long Pacific War. This book speaks not only to art and art history, but also to cultural studies, history, and peace war and defense.
Six travel grants were also made to students attending the conference:
Dah Kim, University of Georgia
India Green, Florida State University
Genn Ruan, University of California, Riverside
Jacquelyn Wilder, University of Kentucky
Jennifer Luckey, University of Georgia
Huaqing Shi, Florida State University