The Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS) requests nominations for its second annual book and article prize competitions. Applications are due November 30, 2017 and winners will be announced at the SEC/AAS annual meeting, January 12-14, 2018 in Columbia, SC. Nominations should be made directly by the author, who must be or willing to become a member of SEC/AAS.
To be eligible for the book or article prize, the submission should:
· Have a 2016 publication date
· Treat a topic in Asian Studies
· Have been written or researched primarily in the SECAAS region: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC.
For the article prize, applicants should submit pdfs via e-mail with “SEC/AAS article prize” in the subject line to:
Chair David Ross
Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3520
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
david_liling@hotmail.com
H: 919-533-6543
For the book prize, applicants should email the chair and send three hard-copies by November 30, 2017 to:
Chair Catherine Phipps
History Department, 219 Mitchell Hall
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152
cphipps1@memphis.edu