The ASAA Mid-Career Researcher Prize
for Excellence
in Asian Studies
The ASAA Mid-Career Researcher Prize for Excellence in Asian Studies ($1000) is awarded biennially by the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) to a mid-career researcher (or researchers) for published work on an Asian subject, as represented in a book or a portfolio of articles and/or book chapters.
Eligibility Criteria:
Individual or joint candidates may nominate for the prize. All applicants must be ASAA members employed at an Australian University below level E at the time of application. Applicants must have completed their PhD at least five years and no more than fifteen years before the application is lodged. In the case of the award being made jointly, the prize will be shared.
Materials to be submitted:
Applications consist of a cover letter outlining the applicant’s eligibility for the prize and a hard copy of the materials to be submitted.
An individual applicant may submit a sole-authored scholarly book (which must not be based on a thesis) or ten book chapters and/or journal articles (or similar) published in the five years before the application is submitted. If an individual candidate submits articles and/or book chapters, a maximum of three pieces can be co-authored (in this case the co-author is not eligible for award of the prize and does not have to meet the application criteria).
Joint candidates may submit a co-authored book or a portfolio of articles and/or book chapters published in the five years before the application is submitted. If joint candidates submit a portfolio of articles and/or book chapters, then six or more of the pieces submitted must be co-authored and 50% of any remaining pieces must be single-authored by each candidate.
Materials submitted MUST BE PHYSICALLY IN PRINT as of the date of submission (galley proofs are not acceptable).
Submission:
Applications should be submitted by 4 February 2010 to:
Professor Kathryn Robinson
Department of Anthropology
Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Questions about this prize can be directed to ASAA secretary, Dr Michele Ford.