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The South Asia Council (SAC) is one of four regional councils operating within the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Created in 1970, these councils represent the interests of scholars working in their respective geographical areas.
Collectively, the four area councils and the Council of Conferences serve as the major policy body for the Association of Asian Studies, providing liaison between the Board of Directors and the members at large.
The South Asia Council administers the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, which honors the author of the best English-language work in South Asian studies and the A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation, which recognizes and encourages translations from South Asian languages into English.
The South Council also administers a prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the AAS Annual Meeting.
Chair: Ramya Sreenivasan, SUNY-Buffalo, rs75@buffalo.edu
Elora Chowdhury, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Elora.Chowdhury@umb.edu
Matthew Nelson, SOAS, University of London, mn6@soas.ac.uk
Vinayak Chaturvedi, University of California, Irvine, vinayak@uci.edu
Anupama Rao, Barnard College, arao@barnard.edu
Wendy Singer, Kenyon College, singerw@kenyon.edu
Meena Khandelwal, University of Iowa, Meena-khandelwal@uiowa.edu
Rebecca Manring, Indiana University, manring@indiana.edu
Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University, samira.sheikh@vanderbilt.edu
Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation (CONSALD)
American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA)
American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS)
American Institute for Bangladesh Studies (AIBS)
American Insititue of Indian Studies (AIIS)
American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS)
Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS)
Independent Scholars of South Asia (ISOSA)
Maharashtra Studies Group
Rajasthan Studies Group
South Asia Language Resource Center (SALRC)
South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI)
The South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies announces the 2010 competition for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the annual conference of the AAS. The prize will recognize emerging scholarship in the field, and foster intellectual exchange among junior and senior scholars. The award of $100.00 and a certificate will be presented at the 2011 AAS/ICAS Conference in Hawaii. The South Asia Council of the AAS will also provide a sum of $300.00 to the winner of the prize, to partially cover the cost of his or her travel to the Hawaii conference, where the winner will be recognized at the AAS Graduate Student reception.
The Council encourages graduate students who presented papers at the March 2010 conference in Philadelphia to submit their papers for consideration. Papers on any aspect and region of South Asia will be considered. Students must be registered in a doctoral program in order to be considered for the Prize.
Please email your paper as an attachment to Matt Nelson, mn6@soas.ac.uk, and Vinayak Chaturvedi, vinayak@uci.edu, by May 31, 2010. Papers submitted to the Council after this deadline will not be considered.
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