AIIS Book Prizes: Call for Submissions

2018 AIIS Book Prize | Apply by September 30

View this email in your browser

2018 AIIS Book Prize: Call for Submissions

Forward

View this flyer as a PDF.

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Asian Studies, the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) announces the award of two prizes each year for the best unpublished book manuscript on an Indian subject in the humanities and social sciences.

Only junior scholars who have received the PhD within the last eight years (2010 and after) are eligible. This must be the first book by the author. A prize committee will determine the yearly winners, though the committee may choose not to award prizes for any year in which worthy submissions are lacking.

The prize will include a subvention of $2500 for the press publishing the manuscript.

The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2018.

Learn More

2018 AIIS Book Prize Recipients

The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Eric Huntington for Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism.

Creating the Universe, which will be published by the University of Washington Press, presents an interdisciplinary analysis of Buddhist depictions of the cosmos across two thousand years of history in India, Nepal, and Tibet.

In chapters that deal with primary texts, ritual ideologies, material practices, and art and architectural history, the book reveals the immense significance and complexity of cosmological thinking in Himalayan Buddhism.

Read more

The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences was awarded to Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner for Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India.

Claiming the State will be published by Cambridge University Press in the summer of 2018. It explores the conditions that shape whether and how citizens in rural India make claims on the state for social welfare. The book’s central questions—who makes claims on the state for social welfare, how, and why?—will be important to those interested in welfare provision, citizenship practice, and local governance.

Read more