48th Annual Meeting
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
January 16-18, 2009

Student Prize Competition

    Two prizes of $100 each will be awarded this year: one to an undergraduate and one to a graduate student from the Southeastern region of the United States for a study of an Asian topic. Papers may be from any discipline or may be inter-disciplinary, but must deal with Asia--here defined as the Indian subcontinent (including Afghanistan), Sri Lanka, and Southeast, East and Central Asia. The winning graduate paper from the SEC will be entered into competition for a panel of graduate papers from the eight AAS regionals at the 2010 annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.

    Participants in the contest may be either undergraduate or resident graduate students at institutions in the Southeast. The Southeast Region consists of the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia.

    Participants should have a letter of endorsement sent by a major professor, thesis advisor, department chair, or other appropriate person. A faculty member may endorse multiple papers. All papers written between September 1, 2007 and August 31, 2008 are eligible for submission. Participants must submit four copies of the finished papers to either Professor Mark Ravina (graduate) or Professor David Blaylock  (undergraduate), [addresses below] postmarked by November 1, 2008.  Graduate participants are also encouraged to submit the proposed paper for possible inclusion on the program of the annual SEC meeting  January 16-18, 2009 at Emory University in Atlanta. (See the enclosed call or contact David Blaylock; program deadline is October 31.) In addition, papers proposed by graduate students for the SEC conference at Emory in 2009 will be eligible for the competition, if also submitted to Professor Ravina by Nov. 1, 2008.
 
    The finished paper should be no longer than 25 double-spaced pages, exclusive of footnotes and bibliography. All papers must be typed, and three copies should accompany the original. Papers will be judged on the merits of research, the clarity of the argument, and the quality of the writing. Works previously published are not eligible for the competition.

Participants must include their name, address, phone number, school, whether undergraduate or graduate, and the name of the recommending professor on the title page.

    Papers will be read by a panel of judges, and prizes will be announced at the Annual Business Meeting during the SEC/AAS Conference at Emory University on January 17, 2009. The winning papers will be published by the Conference in the annual Southeast Review of Asian Studies and the graduate paper will be entered into competition for a graduate panel at the 2010 Association of Asian Studies meeting.

    To submit papers or for further information about the competition, please contact:
 

For Graduate Papers

Mark Ravina
Department of History
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
O: 404 727-4025
H: 404 687-0126
histmr@emory.edu

For Undergraduate Papers

David Blaylock
217 Eastway Drive
Richmond, KY 40475
O: 859 622-1287
H: 859 624-4174
david.blaylock@eku.edu