H.J. Benda Prize

Prize for Outstanding New Scholar of Southeast Asian Studies

The Harry J. Benda Prize

The Harry J. Benda Prize of the Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies is given annually to an outstanding newer scholar from any discipline or country specialization of Southeast Asian studies. There are no citizenship or residence requirements for nominees. The award, which honours on of the pioneers in the field, has been presented twelve times since 1977.
The Benda prize Committee, appointed by the Southeast Asia Council, seeks and receives nominations from which to select the annual recipient.

Nominations for the prize may be made by trade book publishers, university presses, or any interested member of the AAS. Self-nomination is discouraged. Authors need not be AAS members. Original, scholarly, nonfiction works with a copyright date of 1994 or 1995 are eligible, but reference works, exhibition catalogues, translations, textbooks, essay collections, poetry, fiction, travel books, memoirs, or autobiographies are not eligible.
Nominators must send one copy of each nominated work to each of the five members of the review committee. Copies must be received by the committee members no later than August 1, 1996. Each entry must be clearly labelled 'Benda Prize'. The winner will be announced at the AAS annual meeting in the following spring.

1997 Harry J. Benda Prize Committee

Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Chair
Fairbanks Center for East Asian Research
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA

Jane Monnig-Atkinson
7110 SW 55th Avenue
Portland, OR 97219
USA

Vicente L. Rafael
Dept. of Communication
University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0503
USA

Frank E. Reynolds
Swift Hall
1025 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
USA

Jean Paul Dumont (alternate)
2015 Allen Place, NW
Washington, DC 20009-1507
USA