CAS Collaborative Research Prize

Critical Asian Studies is pleased to present a biannual award for the best article based on collaborative research published in the journal.  The next prize will be chosen from articles published during the calendar years of 2025 and 2026. The winning authors receive a shared $500 award, a letter of commendation, and complimentary one-year subscriptions. The judging panel, drawn from the journal’s editorial and advisory boards, will base its decision on the quality of the research, analysis, and explication.  Award-winning articles will also be accessible to readers from multiple disciplines and across geographic regions and convey content that supports the efforts of Asian people to define their own past, present, and future along different lines, including anti-imperialist and social-justice concerns.

2024 Prize Winner: Nicholas Chan and Wai Weng Hew, "Idealized Past, Exclusivist Present: Right-Wing Appropriation of the Decolonial Rhetoric in Malaysia" (Critical Asian Studies 56.4: 625-651).

2023 Prize Winner: Emily Amburgey, Tashi Gurung, Yungdrung Tseang Gurung, and Sienna Craig, “The Co-Production of Disasters: How the Nexus of Climate Change, Tourism, and Covid-19 has Increased Socioeconomic Vulnerability in Mustang, Nepal” (Critical Asian Studies 55.2: 211-234).

2022 Prize Winner: Atreyee Sen, "No City for Lovers: Anti-Romeo Squads, Resistance, and the Micropolitics of Moral Policing in an Indian City" (Critical Asian Studies 54.3: 307-326).