The 2026 AMSEAS
Early Career Book Prize

The Association of Mainland Southeast Asian Scholars offers a prize for the best first book on a Mainland Southeast Asian Studies topic by a scholar specialising in the area. The winner of the prize receives $500.

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Books published in 2024 or 2025 are eligible for nomination for the 2026 prize.

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Please submit your nominations to amseas.scholars@gmail.com.

 

The winner of the 2024 AMSEAS book prize was Andrew Ong for their book titled “Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border”.

 

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