Sue-Je L. Gage, a cultural anthropologist and pioneering scholar in the study of Amerasians in South Korea, passed away suddenly on May 10, 2020. She was an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Affiliated Faculty in the Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity and Women and Gender Studies at Ithaca College, where she […]
Vice President Nominees Represented Area: South Asia Philip Lutgendorf Current position: Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies, Emeritus Institution/Affiliation: University of IowaDiscipline: cultural history, literature, cinema, religious studiesCountry or area(s) of interest: South AsiaSpecialization: Cultural history of North India; popular and devotional Hindi literature; performance, cinema and mass media; tea promotion and consumption Select PublicationsThe Epic […]
UPDATED AUGUST 14, 2020 ** Please note ** The Vietnam Studies Group Paper Prize Committee has determined that membership in the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is NO LONGER a requirement for entry in this competition. However, we do ask that all submissions come from current (dues-paying) Vietnam Studies Group members, as membership dues help […]
The Association for Asian Studies is pleased to announce that we have received a $150,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support new programs and publications responding to the needs of Asian Studies scholars in 2020. The challenges presented by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have inspired new paradigms for research, outreach, and education on […]
Congratulations to AAS Members Junting Huang (Cornell University), who was awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship; David A. Pietz (University of Arizona), a member of the Carnegie Fellows Class of 2020; and Louise Young (University of Wisconsin-Madison), elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. All AAS Book Prizes are now accepting submissions for […]
Congratulations to the four AAS Members in the 2020 class of Guggenheim Fellows: Mark Philip Bradley (University of Chicago), Robert Campany (Vanderbilt University), Tyrell Haberkorn (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and David A. Pietz (University of Arizona). We also extend congratulations for the four AAS Members awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities to support […]
The AAS, in collaboration with JSTOR, is pleased to offer a 50% discount to JPASS for AAS members. At this time of remote work, support in the form of online access to publications is invaluable. The JPASS was specifically designed for independent researchers and provides unlimited reading access to the 2,000+ humanities, social science, and science journals in the JSTOR archive. Those […]
The selection committee is pleased to announce that the 2020 Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award will be jointly conferred to Ms. Yoko Hori (Instructor of Japanese, University of Arkansas) and Mr. Shunichi Maruyama (Ph.D. student, The Ohio State University). Ms. Hori has been playing a key role in the growth of the Japanese program at […]
Hy V. Luong is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and was elected Vice President of the AAS in the Fall 2019 election. I discovered anthropology as an undergraduate student at the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1970s. After Berkeley, I pursued my graduate education in anthropology at Harvard University. […]
#AAS2020 News A reminder to lock in a lower rate and pre-register for the AAS 2020 Annual Conference in Boston by February 18. There are still rooms available in our blocks at the official conference hotels, so reserve yours today. Secure on-site childcare in advance by signing up your little one for this new service, […]
Nominate yourself or a colleague for the 2020 Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award for Excellence in Japanese Language Teaching. This annual prize honors an outstanding graduate student or instructor teaching Japanese at the college level and carries with it a $1,000 award. All nomination materials are due to Selection Committee Chair Priya Ananth by January […]
Congratulations to AAS Past President Anne Feldhaus, who recently retired from Arizona State University after teaching there for 38 years. Feldhaus is a religious studies scholar who focuses on Maharashtra, India; her AAS Presidential Address, “Biography as Geography,” has just been published in the November issue of the Journal of Asian Studies. *** AAS Members […]
