2023
Graduate prize winner
Jeung Hyun Kim, Syracuse University
Grandparenting, Filial Piety, and Well-being of Chinese-American Older Adults
graduate honorable mention winner
Caiyang Xu, Columbia University
The Politicization of the Mahāyāna Distinction in Modern China, 1911–1953
underGraduate Prize winner
Wanqing Zhou, University of Rochester
What Do You Mean by ‘Love’: Intimacy, Commodification, and Community among Chinese Kpop Fans
undergraduate honorable mention winner
Kirstie Yuen, Skidmore College
Does a Daoist genuinely value close relationships?
2022
Graduate Prize Winner
Sujung Lee, Syracuse University
‘After getting a degree, what’s next?’: Migration Decision of Chinese and Korean Graduate Students in STEM
Graduate Honorable Mention Winner
Anjana Ramkumar, Cornell University
Situating Food Sovereignty: Green Revolution, Agroecology and Agrarian Development in India
Undergraduate Prize Winner
Patricia Winston, SUNY Cortland
The Evolution of Chinese Cinema in the Twentieth Century
Undergraduate Honorable Mention Winner
Josh Pandossi (University at Buffalo)
Minzhu and the Dynamic Definition of Democracy in China
2021
Graduate Prize
Sara Ann Swenson, Syracuse University
‘Three Trees Make a Mountain’: Women and Contramodern Buddhist Volunteerism in Vietnam
Graduate Honorable Mention
Terese Gagnon, Syracuse University
‘There are No Seeds Here’: Severing Seed Sovereignty in Mae La Camp
Undergraduate Prize
Andreanna L. Downing Zheng, Wells College
‘Flowers of the rear garden’: The People’s Republic of China’s Male Homosexological Lexicon
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Zejian Zhou, St. Lawrence University
Confucian Freedom: Practice, Morality, and Responsibility
2020
Graduate Prize
J. Travis Shutz, Binghamton University
Chaozhou Pirates, Zhangzhou Traders, and Quanzhou Sailors: Mediators Between the Ming and Spanish Empires in the Late Sixteenth Century
Graduate Honorable Mention
Du Fei, Syracuse University
Fatima’s Inheritance: Three Itineraries of Law Between Early Modern Aceh and Europe
Undergraduate Prize
Taylor Armijo, St. Lawrence University
In an Era of Reform: Reimagining Government Control in the Chinese Film Industry
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Meghan Reilly, Union College
Ancient Greek in Chinese Translation: The ‘Sinicization’ of Euripides
2019
Graduate Prize
Adrienne Lee Atterberry, Syracuse University
Schooling within a Transnational Context: Examining Indian American Return Migrants’ K-12 School-Choice Decision
Undergraduate Prize
Jordan Flanagan, St. Lawrence University
Memories Clashing: Analyzing Historical Memories of Support and Conflict Between Vietnam and Cambodia Surrounding the 1979-1989 Vietnamese Occupation of Cambodia
2018
Graduate Prize
Xuening Kong, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Anna May Wong and Her Travels in Europe and China—Identity Construction Interconnectedness Between Gender, Race, and Nationalism
Undergraduate Prize
Xuanyi (Shane) Zhang, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Poet versus Chairman: The Incident of Hu Feng & The Literary Warfare of Chairman Mao
2017
Graduate Prize
Emily Bowlus-Peck, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Jesuit Understandings of Abnormal Behavior in Early Modern Chinese Medicine
Graduate Honorable Mention
Patrick Nash, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Re-imagining the Ku Klux Klan in Chinese Media, 1950-1959
Undergraduate Prize
Kristin Xinming Chang, Sarah Lawrence College
The Gold Medal Rush: Machine-body Racializations of Chinese Labor at the Olympics and Beyond
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Niall Chithelen, Cornell University
In Search of “Spaces”: The Ezra Opium Case of 1925, Extraterritoriality, and Analyzing Semicolonial China
2016
Graduate Prize
Michael Denman, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Identities from Shaolin: Identity and Culture in 1970’s Hong Kong Kung Fu Genre Movies
Graduate Honorable Mention
Alexandra Dalferro, Cornell University
Subjectification through Silk: The Story of the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles
Undergraduate Prize
Donghai Yu, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Why the Chinese Sponsored the TAZARA: An Investigation about the People’s Republic of China’s African Policy in the Regional Context, 1955-1970
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Rachel Clarey, Union College
Factors That Influence Chinese Students to Study in the United States
2015
Graduate Prize
Hayden Kantor, Cornell University
A Dead Letter of the Statute Book: The Strange Bureaucratic Life of The Bihar Food Economy and Guest Control Order, 1950-1954
This paper has been published in revised form in the journal South Asian History and Culture (2016). The published version is available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2016.1168098
Undergraduate Prize
Ayman A. Khondker, Colgate University
The Factors Affecting South Asian National Hierarchy
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Lisbeth DaBramo, Hamilton College
Situating Gender in Water-Related Issues: Regional Perspective from Jaipur and Varanasi
2014
Graduate Prize
Phillip Guingona. University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Warlords and Dancing Beauties: A Study of Early Twentieth-century Sino-Philippine Bilateral Media Representations
Undergraduate Prize
Tatenda Pasipanodya,St. Lawrence University
Democratic Tendencies: Wealth, the Middle Class, and the Prospects for Chinese Democracy
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Chika Okuyama, Hofstra University
Francis Ford Coppola and Japanese Culture
2013
Graduate Prize
Rafal Stepien, Columbia University
The Impossibility of Language: Poetic Modes of Apophasis in Buddhist and Islamic Mystical Literature
Undergraduate Prize
Kai R. Wasson, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
The Power of Invisibility: American Empire in the Conundrum Yasukuni Shrine
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Eric Lee, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Empress Liu: Agency, Regency, and Bureaucracy
2012
Graduate Prize
Jeffrey Gower, University at Buffalo
Knowledge Management and Transfers between North and South Korea at the Kaesong Industrial Complex
(No undergraduate prize awarded in 2012.)
2011
Graduate Prize
Helena Zeweri, The New School
Generating the Collective through Text: Afghan American Writings on Belonging and the Homeland
Undergraduate Prize
Nora Langan, St. Lawrence University
Sino-African Relations: Mutually Beneficial?
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Fernando Gomez, St. Lawrence University
Cities of Dreams: Examining the Ideology of Colonial Architecture in India
2010
Graduate Prize
Kyoung-Lae Kang, University of Rochester
Maternal Face and Voice in Public Prosecutor and Teacher: Its Symbolism upon Korean Modern History
Undergraduate Prize
Jacob Birchard, St. Lawrence University
State Intervention in India: An Analysis of Bureaucratic Change and Its Impact on Economic Growth
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Nick Ogonek, Bard College
Mizuko Kuyo and Blame in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
2009
Graduate Prize
Anouluk Kittikhoun, Graduate Center, City University of New York
A Geographical Analysis of the Revolution in Laos
Graduate Honorable Mention
Kevin Carrico, Cornell University
Re-centering China: The Cantonese In and Beyond the Han
Undergraduate Prize
Julia Burke, University at Buffalo, SUNY
The Expanding Network of the Uyghurs: The Past and Prospects of the East Turkestan Independence Movement
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Kara Cooperrider, Colgate University
Maneuvering the Space in Between: The Hijras of India and the Gender Politics of Nation Building
2008
Graduate Prize
Chien-Ju Lin, Binghamton University, SUNY
Gender and Labor In East Asia
Undergraduate Prize
Kevin H. Keepper, Saint Lawrence University
Intellectual Property Rights in China: Capacity and Incentive for Proper Enforcement in China
2007
Graduate Prize
Yu-Ling Huang, Binghamton University, SUNY
Negotiating Health in Thailand: AIDS, Global Patent Regime, and Health Social Movement
Undergraduate Prize
Joshua Evan Schlachet, Cornell University
Human Warmth: Comfort Women & Destabilizing Historical Narrativism Towards Multiplicity of Voice
2007 Pre-Collegiate Student Writing Prize Competition
[In Cooperaton with Asia for Educators, Columbia University, and the New York Council for History Education]
Winner-First Prize
Omar Hayes, Spring Valley High School, Spring Valley, NY
(Teacher: Christopher Ferraro)
The Economic and Political Effects of Burmese Opium Trade 1886-present
2006
Graduate Prize
(No Graduate Prize Awarded in 2006)
Tie – Undergraduate Prize
Maria Marangos, Fordham University – College at Lincoln Center
Modernizing Through Tradition: Kyoto’s Development in Meiji Period
Samuel L. Sapirstein, Bard College
Civil Unrest in Contemporary China: Some Implications for U.S.-China Relations
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Alexander Gordon, Cornell University
The Role of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in the Primary Health Care and Economy of People in Lower Mustang (Nepal)
2005
Graduate Prize
Jeongsuk Joo, University at Buffalo, SUNY
From Periphery to Center: The Rise of the Korean Film Industry Since the Late 1990s and Ironies of its Success
Undergraduate Prize
Daniel Schwartz, Binghamton University, SUNY
Terror and Revolt: Examining Al Qaeda through the Lens of the Satsuma Rebellion
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Theresa McNutt, University at Buffalo, SUNY
The Double-Standard of Cross-Genderization in Japanese Theatre
2004
Graduate Prize
Seo-Hyun Park, Cornell University
Islands for Cash: Economic Influence Strategies and the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute
Graduate Honorable Mention
Samuel Yunxiang Liang, Binghamton University
Ephemeral Households, Splintered City: Be(tween) Tradition and Modernity in Flowers of Shanghai
Undergraduate Prize
Alexandra Geertz, Hamilton College
Seat Reservation for Women in Local Panchayats: An Analysis of Power
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Linda Stein, Columbia University
Death for Death: A Comparison of Three Classic Revenge Dramas
2003
Graduate Prize
Fang Qiang, University at Buffalo
Were Chinese Rulers above the Law: Aspects of the Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law in Chinese History
Graduate Honorable Mention
Nosheen Ali, Cornell University
The Politics of Conservation in the Khunjerab National Park, Pakistan Explorations and Insights
Undergraduate Prize
Renee Karl, LeMoyne College
Women in Practice: A Comparative Analysis of Gender and Sexuality in India
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Aaron Edelstein, Union College
Abortion and Buddhism
2002
Graduate Prize
Linda Rui Feng, Columbia University
Snatching the Last Word(s): Value-driven Suicides and the Role of Narrative in Chinese Literary History
Graduate Honorable Mention
Heather Fried, University at Buffalo
A Prismatic Image of Identity
Undergraduate Prize
Emily McRae, Union College
Gender, Self and Enlightenment: A Feminist Analysis of Buddhism
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Kevin Carrico, Bard College
Chairman Mao’s Good Soldier: The Many Faces of Lei Feng
2001
Graduate Prize
Ping Chou, New School for Social Research
Imagining Formosa Through Western Writings, 17th-19th Century: A Buddhist Middle Way Discourse Analysis
Graduate Honorable Mention
Naveen Zaidi, Cornell Law School
The Controversies behind the H-1B Visa Program: Truth or Myth
Undergraduate Prize
Andre Foisy, University at Buffalo
Free Aceh Movement: A Nosological Problem
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Jane Lim, Cornell University
Alternative Identities: Anti-Communism and the ‘ASEAN’ Way