Contest Guidelines

Eligibility

• Junior scholars who received the Ph.D. from a U.S. institution since 2002 are eligible to participate.
• Unrevised dissertations and manuscripts already submitted for publication are not eligible.

Guidelines

• Winners are determined by the AIIS Publications Commitee. The Committee may determine that there is no winner in a particular year.
• Indiana University Press has the right to select a prize-winning manuscript for publication. If selected, revised and edited, winning books will be published in the Indiana University Press/AIIS Series on Contemporary Indian Studies.
• Submission of a manuscript implies agreement to publish with Indiana University Press should the submission win a prize.
• A prize includes both a cash award and a subvention to Indiana University Press to help meet the cost of publication.

Deadline is October 1.

Send TWO copies of your manuscript to:

Susan S. Wadley
AIIS Publications Committee

209 Maxwell
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244

Inquiries should be directed to:

The Publications Committee Chair: Susan S. Wadley (sswadley@syr.edu)

Winners are announced at the spring meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.