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In 2021 the Society appointed Dr T. C.Sherman (LSE) Chair, Professor Naoko Shimazu (NUS), Professor Susanne Brandtstädter (Koln), Professor Rebecca Empson (UCL), and Professor Arne Westad (Yale ) as the adjudicating panel.
The Prize was awarded to Mallika Leuzinger (University College, London) for her thesis, Dwelling in Photography: Intimacy, Amateurism and the Camera in South Asia. The shortlisted candidates were Stefano Gandolfo (University of Oxford) for The Streams of Knowledge: Organising the Siku Quanshu and Shreyashi Dasgupta (University of Cambridge) for The Accommodation City: Private Low-Income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai.
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A recording of Mallika Leuzinger's lecture to the Society on the subject of her dissertation can be found on the Royal Asiatic Society's Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9kIuwe8CdI