In order to promote scholarship in South Asian Studies,
the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) announces the award
of two prizes each year for the best unpublished book manuscript on
an Indian subject, one in the humanities, “The Edward
Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities” and
one in the social sciences, “The Joseph W. Elder Prize
in the Indian Social Sciences.” Indiana University Press
has the right of first refusal for any prize-winner, with manuscripts
being published in the Indiana University Press/AIIS series Contemporary
Indian Studies (after revision and editing). Manuscripts that are
accepted at other presses are not eligible. Only junior scholars who
have received the PhD within the last eight years (1999 and after) and
been awarded an AIIS Fellowship or participated in an AIIS program (fellowship
or language) are eligible. A prize committee will determine the yearly
winners and can chose to designate no winner in any given year if worthy
submissions are lacking. When submitting manuscripts to the prize committee,
applicants are committed to publication in the AIIS series with Indiana
University Press if chosen as a winner. AIIS will provide a subvention
to Indiana University Press for all prize manuscripts. Unrevised dissertations
are not accepted. We expect that the applicants will have revised dissertations
prior to submission.
Manuscripts are due October 1st., with an announcement
of the awardees at the made early in 2007. Send TWO copies of
your manuscript, postmarked no later than October 1, 2006,
to the address below. Queries can be addressed to sswadley@syr.edu.
2003 Winners:
Aseema Sinha, U of Wisconsin, Madison. The Regional Roots of Developmental
Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan. March 2005.
Pika Ghosh, University of North Carolina. Temple to Love: Architecture
and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal. March 2005.
2004 Winners:
Deborah Hutton, College of New Jersey. Art of the Court of Bijapur.
Sondra Hausner, Research Advisor for Save the Children-US (Nepal). Wandering
in Place: Body, Space, and Time for Hindu Renouncers
2006 Winners:
Lisa Mitchell, University of Notre Dame. The Making of a Mother
Tongue: Language, Emotion, and Collective Identity in Colonial and Post-colonial
Southern India
Mytheli Sreenivas, Ohio State University. Conjugality and Capital:
Family and Colonial Modernity in Tamil India, 1880-1950
Publications committee:
Brian Hatcher, Illinois Wesleyan U.
David Lelyveld, William Paterson U.
John Echeverri-Gent, U. of Virginia
Priti Ramamurthy, U. of Washington
Susan S. Wadley, Syracuse U.
Martha Selby, U. of Texas-Austin
Contact Information:
Publications Committee Chair, Susan S. Wadley
Anthropology
209 Maxwell
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
