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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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Criteria:

  • The author must be a member of AMSEAS

  • The book must be a monograph and deal primarily with a country or countries of Mainland Southeast Asia

  • The book must be the scholar’s first

  • The book must be sole-authored

  • The book must have been published within two years of the awarding of the prize (2024-2025)

  • The prize will be awarded at the  Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia in Geelong, 29 June - 2 July 2026

  • Nominations must be received by 1st April 2026

 

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”. Judges will consider the AMSEAS objectives in their decision making. 

 

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