Undergraduate Paper Prize
The above photograph of a woman writing a letter was attributed Kusakabe Kimbei and comes from the Rijksmuseum collection. It is now in the public domain and can be accessed at http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.604331 .
The Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies welcomes submissions for its annual Undergraduate Paper prize.
Papers should be written by an undergraduate at an institution in the US Southeast, on a topic relevant to Asian studies. Papers must be nominated by an advisor or professor.
Submissions can be sent to the senior member-at-large 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: Clay Wallace (Furman University), for the paper “China: An Exporter of Authoritarianism? Analysis of Chinese Influence in West Africa,” written under Prof. Kate Kaup
2024: Sam Dietrich (UNC-Chapel Hill) for the paper “Privacy, Psychology, and the Panopticon in Xia Jia’s Short Stories,” written under Prof. Robin Visser
2023: Patrick Peralta (University of Maryland) for the paper “Dictatorship of the Vengeful”
2022: Bradley Sadowsky (UNC-Chapel Hill) for the paper “Post-War Japanese Society and Mishima Yukio’s The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea,” written under Dr. Kevin Fogg