Book Prize

As part of EuroSEAS 2026, two book prizes of 750 Euro each were awarded to the best academic publications on Southeast Asia in the humanities and social sciences. The official announcement took place on Wednesday, 02 September 2026.

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

Winner

Chambers, Justine, Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar. NUS Press 2024.

Shortlist

• Bylander, Maryann, The Trade-Offs of Legal Status: Safe Migration, Documentation, and Debts in Southeast Asia. University of Hawai’i 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

Winner

Dyt, Kathryn, The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth Century Vietnam. University of Hawai’i Press 2025.

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.