George Kahin Prize - Association for Asian Studies

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• George McT. Kahin Prize:

-- Sponsor: Association for Asian Studies

-- SYNOPSIS: The sponsor awards a prize to an outstanding scholar of Southeast Asian studies from any discipline or country specialization to recognize distinguished scholarly work on Southeast Asia beyond the author's first book.

-- Deadline(s): 08/01/2010

-- Web Site: http://www.aasianst.org

-- Program URL: http://www.aasianst.org/publications/book-prizes.htm

-- OBJECTIVES: The sponsor awards a prize to an outstanding scholar of Southeast Asian studies from any discipline or country specialization to recognize distinguished scholarly work on Southeast Asia beyond the author's first book.

-- ELIGIBILITY: Nominations for the prize may be made by trade book publishers, university presses, or any member of the Association for Asian Studies. Self-nomination is not allowed. Authors need not be AAS members. Any original, scholarly, nonfiction works with a copyright date of 2008 or 2009 are eligible, but reference works, exhibition catalogs, translations, textbooks, collections of previously published essays, poetry, fiction, travel books, memoirs or autobiographies are not eligible. There are no citizenship or residence requirements for nominees.