Asia and Asian America Section Announcements



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2008 Newly Elected Officers:

Chair-Elect:

Yanjie Bian, University of Minnesota

Council Members:

Yong Cai, Utah University

Xiaogang Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Student Representative:

Sabeen Sandhu, University of California, Irvine

Section on Asia and Asian America, 2008 award winners and honorees:

2008 Book Award

Co-Winners: Das Gupta, Monisha. 2006. Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States. Durham: Duke University Press.

Jung, Moon-Kie. 2006. Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement. New York: Columbia University Press.

2008 Research Paper Award

Winner: Kelly, H. Chong. 2006. "Negotiating Patriarchy: South Korean Evangelical Women and the Politics of Gender." Gender and Society 20: 697-724

2008 Graduate Student Paper Award

Winner:Leslie Kim Wang (University of California, Berkeley). "Multicultural Negotiations in a Chinese State-Run Orphanage." Unpublished Manuscript, Department of Sociology, UC, Berkeley

Honorable Mention

Hae Yeon Choo (University of Wisconsin-Madison). 2006. "Gendered Modernity and Ethnicized Citizenship: North Korean Settler in Contemporary South Korea." Gender & Society 20: 576-604.

2008 Early Career Award

Winner: Dina Okamoto, University of California, Davis

Honorable Mention

Angie Chung, The University at Albany

2008 Outstanding Teaching Award

[Not given this year]

Congratulations for all winners and honorees!

Awards for Asia and Asian American Section (2008-2009)

Deadline for all nominations is March 31, 2009

Book Award

The Asia and Asian American section invites nomination letters and materials for the Asian and Asian American Section book award. Each year we rotate the nominations between books on Asia and books on Asian America. This year the award will go to the most outstanding book on Asia. Eligible books must be either published during 2007 and 2008.

Please send a nomination or a self-nomination letter along with a copy of the book to each of the Book Award Co-Chairs:

Professor Xiaoling Shu (Chair)

Professor Zhenchao Qian

Department of Sociology

Department of Sociology

University of California Davis

Ohio State University

One Shields Avenue

1885 Neil Avenue Mall

Davis, CA 95616

Columbus, OH 43210

E-Mail Xiaoling Shu

E-Mail Zhenchao Qian

Research Paper Award

Nominations (including self-nominations) are invited for the Section’s Research Paper Award. Each year we rotate the nominations between papers on Asia and papers on Asian America. This year we plan to give the award for an outstanding paper on Asia. Eligible papers must be either published during 2007 or 2008. Nomination and self-nomination letters should be no more than 2 pages stating the significance and innovations of the paper.

Send one copy of the paper along with nomination letter(s) to the Research Paper Award Chair:

Professor Yong Cai (Chair)

Department of Sociology

University of Utah

380 S 1530 RM 301

Salt Lake City, UT 84112

E-Mail Yong Cai

Graduate Student Paper Award

The section will award a prize to the best graduate student paper addressing any topic in the sociology of Asia or on Asian Americans. The winner receives a cash prize of $300 at the annual meeting. Entries should be double spaced with 12 point font and not exceed 30 pages in length (including all references, tables, and figures). Papers may be published, under consideration for publication, or accepted for a panel at the ASA. Papers may be co-authored, but the student should be the lead author. Papers may be submitted by students or by professors on behalf of their students.

Send three copies of the paper with all identifying information to the Graduate Student Paper Award Committee:

Professor Carolyn Chen (chair)

Professor Xiaogang Wu

Department of Sociology

Department of Social Science

Northwestern University

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

1808 Chicago Avenue RM 103

RM 337 Academic Building

Evanston, IL 60208-1330

Clearwater Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

E-Mail Carolyn Chen

E-Mail Xiaogang Wu

Outstanding Teaching Award

The Asia and Asian American Section invites nominations for the Outstanding Teaching Award for a scholar who teaches courses in the Sociology of Asia or Asian American communities. A nomination letter of no more than 2 pages should address the nominee's qualifications for the award and highlight the contributions of the scholar's work.

Please direct three copies of the nomination letter and the nominee's curriculum vitae to the Teaching Award Committee Chair:

Professor Min Zhou (chair)

Department of Sociology

University of California, Los Angeles

264 Haines Hall, 375 Portola Plaza

Los Angeles, Ca 90095-1551

E-Mail Min Zhou

Early Career Award

This award recognizes a scholar in the early stage of her/his career (no more than 10 years post Ph.D. award date) and who is conducting exemplary research on the sociology of Asia or Asian American communities. A nomination letter of no more than 3 pages should address the nominee's qualifications for the award and highlight the significance of the scholar's work.

Three sets of the nomination letter and the nominee's vitae should be sent to the Early Career Award Committee Chair:

Professor Mary Danico (chair)

Department of Sociology

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

3801 W. Temple Boulevard

Pomona, CA 91768

E-Mail Mary Yu Danico