Winner of IBP 2013 Dissertations Humanities

Birgit Tremml, 'When Political Economies Meet: Spain, China and Japan in Manila, 1517-1644'.

The dissertation affords a window into the convergence of Iberian / New Spanish, Fujianese, and Japanese actors in Manila in a crucial and formative time frame. It provides a masterful broad synthesis that is simultaneously detailed yet succinct. Within this new insights emerge on Iberian and East Asian "co-colonialism" and how their encounters in Manila in turn shaped political and cultural identities of these respective actors.

Longlist IBP 2013 Dissertations Humanities

Thomas Barker, 'A Cultural Economy of the Contemporary Indonesian Film Industry'.

Edson Cabalfin, 'Nation and Spectacle: Identity Politics in the Architecture of Philippine Displays in International Expositions, 1877-1998'.

Song Chen, 'Managing the Territories from Afar: The Imperial State and the Elites in Shichuan, 755-1279'.

Nahoko Fukushima, '"Sharebon" and the Courtesans: A Phase of Edo Aesthetics as the Dispersal of Ideology'.

Tom Hoogervorst, 'Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World: Combining Historical Linguistic Archaeological Approaches'.

Ayesha Irani, 'Sacred Biography, Translation, and Conversion: The Nabivamsa of Saiyad Sultan and the Making of Bengali Islam, 1600-present'.

Yu-jen Liu, 'Publishing Chinese Art: Issues of Cultural Reproduction, 1905-1918'.

Reading Committee Accolades IBP 2013 Dissertations Humanities

Most accessible and captivating work for the non-specialist reader Accolade
Thomas Barker, A Cultural Economy of the Contemporary Indonesian Film Industry (2011)

Specialist publication Accolade
Nahoko Fukushima, ‘Sharebon’  and Courtesans: A Phase of Edo Aesthetics as the dispersal of Ideology (2011)

Ground-breaking subject matter Accolade
Tom Hoogervorst, Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World: Linguistic Archaeological Approaches (2012)