In 2022 the Society appointed Professor Benjamin Hopkins (George Washington University) Chair, Professor Susanne Brandtstädter (Koln), Professor Magnus Marsden (Sussex), Dr Rian Thum (Manchester), and Professor Arne Westad (Yale) to be the adjudicating… read more
In 2022 the Society appointed Professor Benjamin Hopkins (George Washington University) Chair, Professor Susanne Brandtstädter (Koln), Professor Magnus Marsden (Sussex), Dr Rian Thum (Manchester), and Professor Arne Westad (Yale) to be the adjudicating panel.
The winner was Sonia Wigh (university of Exeter) for her thesis, The Body of Words: A social history of sex and the body in early modern South Asia.
The shortlisted candidates were Taushif Kara (University of Cambridge) for Abode of peace: Islam, empire and the Khoja diaspora; Katie Campbell (University of Cambridge) for Cities and the Mongol Conquest: Urban Change 1200-1400; Melyn McKay (University of Oxford) for For women there are two Nirvanas: Risk and Freedom in Myanmar’s contemporary Buddhist revival movement: and Matthew Woolgar (University of Oxford) for Communism in Context: The Indonesian Communist Party in West Java.
The archival material consists of 16 digital photographs of the award ceremony which took place on 19 January 2023.
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