Book Prize
As part of EuroSEAS 2026, two book prizes will be awarded:
The EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize for the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the humanities – including archaeology, art history, history, literature, performing arts, and religious studies.
The EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize for the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the social sciences – including anthropology, economics, law, politics and international relations, and sociology.
The winners will receive 750 Euro each.
The winners will be announced on Wednesday, 02 September 2026, from 09:30 to 10:00, following the keynote address, at the Assembly Hall / Salón de Actos.
The juries consisted of:
Humanities: Marie Aubrey Villarecan, Henk Schulte Nordholt, Anton Zakharov
Social Sciences: Anne Yvonne Guillou, Reza Idria, Claudia Merli, Silvia Vignato
Social Science book prize shortlist:
- Bylander, Maryann, The Trade-Offs of Legal Status: Safe Migration, Documentation, and Debts in Southeast Asia. University of Hawai’i Press 2024.
- Chambers, Justine, Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar. NUS Press 2024.
- Chua, Beng Huat, Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore’s Public Housing. NUS Press 2024.
- Fox, Colm A., Bonding, Bridging, and Bypassing: Understanding Ethnic Politics in Diverse Societies. Oxford University Press 2024.
- Hedström, Jenny, Reproducing Revolution: Women’s Labor and the War in Kachinland. Cornell University Press 2025.
- Theriault, Noah, A Forest of Dreams: Capitalism, Conservation and Indigenous Rights in the Philippines. University of Hawai’i Press 2025.
Humanities book prize shortlist:
- Dyt, Kathryn, The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth Century Vietnam. University of Hawai’i Press 2025.
- Firpo, Christina, Beauty and the Nation: Women, Culture, and the National Image in Interwar Vietnam. Columbia University Press 2026.
- Murphy, Stephen, Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries. NUS Press 2024.
- Picard, Michel, Kebalian: The Dialogic Construction of Balinese Identity. NUS Press 2024.
- Trakulthun, Sven, Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand. Hawai’i University Press 2024.
- Yngvesson, Dag, Archipelagic Cinemas: Screening Southeast Asian Modernity. University of California Press 2025.