Book Prize

As part of our closing event on Wednesday, 24 July, EuroSEAS will award two book prizes:

1. The EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize for the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the humanities – including archaeology, art history, history, literature, performing arts and religious studies.
2. The EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize for the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the social sciences – including anthropology, economics, law, politics and international relations, and sociology.

The winners will receive 750 Euro each. The following books have been selected for the shortlist:

Social Science book price shortlist:

• Dwyer, Michael, Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush. University of Washington Press 2022.

• Moore, Elizabeth et al, Wider Bagan: Ancient and Living Buddhist Traditions. ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute 2023.

• Ong, Andrew, Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border. Cornell University Press 2023.

• Phinney, Harriet, Single Mothers and the State Embrace. University of Washington Press 2022.

• Rumsby, Seb, Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands. UW Press Books 2023.

• Zakaria, Faizah, The Camphor Tree and the Elephant. University of Washington Press 2023.

Humanities book price shortlist:

• Yorim Spoelder, Visions of Greater India. Cambridge University Press 2023.

• Y-Dang Troeung, Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia. Temple Press 2022.

• Alexandra Kaloyanides, Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom. Columbia University Press 2023.

• Charlotte Setijadi,Memories of Unbelonging: Ethnic Chinese Identity Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia. University of Hawaii Press 2024.

• Grace Leksana, Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia. Amsterdam University Press 2023.