AIIS BOOK PRIZE

 

In order to promote scholarship in South Asian Studies, the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) announces the award of two prizes each year for the best unpublished book manuscript on an Indian subject, one in the humanities, “The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities” and one in the social sciences,  “The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences”. Indiana University Press has the right of first refusal for any prize-winner, with manuscripts being published in the Indiana University Press/AIIS series Contemporary Indian Studies (after revision and editing). Manuscripts that are accepted at other presses are not eligible. Only junior scholars who have received the PhD within the last eight years (2000 and after) and been awarded an AIIS Fellowship or participated in an AIIS program (fellowship or language) are eligible. A prize committee will determine the yearly winners and can choose to designate no winner in any given year if worthy submissions are lacking.  When submitting manuscripts to the prize committee, applicants are committed to publication in the AIIS series with Indiana University Press if chosen as a winner.  AIIS will provide a subvention to Indiana University Press for all prize manuscripts.

 

Unrevised dissertations are not accepted. We expect that the applicants will have revised dissertations prior to submission.

 

Manuscripts are due October 1^st., with an announcement of the awardees at the made early in 2009. Send TWO copies of your manuscript, postmarked no later than October 1, 2008, to the Publications Committee Chair, Susan S. Wadley, Anthropology, 209 Maxwell, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244. Queries can be addressed to sswadley@syr.edu.

 

2003 Winners:

Aseema Sinha, U of Wisconsin, Madison. The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan. March 2005.

Pika Ghosh, University of North Carolina. Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal. March 2005.

 

2004 Winners:

Deborah Hutton, College of New Jersey. Art of the Court of Bijapur.

Sondra Hausner, Research Advisor for Save the Children-US (Nepal) Wandering in Place: Body, Space, and Time for Hindu Renouncers

 

2006 Winners:

Lisa Mitchell, University of Notre Dame. The Making of a Mother Tongue: Language, Emotion, and Collective Identity in Colonial and Post-colonial Southern India

Mytheli Sreenivas, Ohio State University. Conjugality and Capital: Family and Colonial Modernity in Tamil India, 1880-1950

 

2007 Winners

Karline McLain, Bucknell University, Immortal Picture Stories: Comic Books, Religion, and Identity in Modern India

Michael Youngblood, Cultivating Communities: Identity, Ambiguity and the Construction of Common Interest in a Contemporary Indian Social Movement

 

Publications committee:                                         

Brian Hatcher, Illinois Wesleyan U.                            David Lelyveld, William Paterson U.

John Echeverri-Gent, U. of Virginia                            Priti Ramamurthy, U. of Washington

Susan S. Wadley, Syracuse U.                                      Martha Selby, U. of Texas-Austin