Series RAS BP/2 - 2019

In 2019 the winner was Lexi (Alexandra) Stadlen (London School of Economics) for her thesis, Weaving lives from Violence: Possibility and Change for Muslim Women in West Bengal.

The shortlisted candidates were Radha Kapuria (Kings College, London) for Music in Colonial Punjab: A Social History; Ahmad Moradi (University of Manchester) for Politics of Persuasion: Making and Unmaking Revolution in Iran; and Sahil Nijhawan (University College London) for Human-animal relations and the role of cultural norms in tiger conservation in the Idu Mishmi of Arunachal Pradesh, India.

The Society received 26 submissions from 11 universities in the United Kingdom. These were considered by the panel of adjudicators consisting of Doctor Taylor Sherman (LSE), Professor Sunil Amrith (Harvard), Professor James Laidlaw (Cambridge), Professor Rebecca Empson (UCL) and Professor Naoko Shimizu (Yale-NUS). The prize was awarded at a reception at the Society on Tuesday 29th October 2019, with the winner announced by Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.

The archival material is:

• 'The Bayly Prize 2019 Shortlist' - document giving biographical details of the shortlisted candidates and their theses. Computer printed, 3 pieces.
• Four digital photographs showing Professor Lyndal Roper, adjudicator Taylor Sherman, the shortlisted candidates and officers of the Society.