Winner of IBP 2015 Dissertations Humanities

Deokhyo Choi, 'Crucible of the Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, and Cold War Politics in U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952'.

Longlist IBP 2015 Dissertations Humanities

Claudine Ang, 'Statecraft on the Margins: Drama, Poetry, and the Civilizing Mission in Eighteenth-Century Southern Vietnam'.

Vannessa Hearman, 'Dismantling the "Fortress": East Java and the Transition to Suharto’s New Order Regime (1965-68)'.

Muari Kumar Jha, 'The Political Economy of the Ganga River: Highway of State Formation in Mughal India, c.1600-1800'.

Leonie Schmidt, 'Visions of the Future: Imagining Islamic Modernities in Indonesian Islamic-themed post-Suharto Popular and Visual Culture'.

Wei Chin Wong, 'Interrelations between Chinese Secret Societies and the British Colonial Government in Malaya, 1786-1890'.                

Jamie Jungmin Yoo, 'Materiality and Writing: Circulation of Texts, Reading and Reception, and Production of Literature in Late 18th-century Korea'.

Reading Committee Accolades IBP 2015 Dissertations Humanities

Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the non-Specialist Reader Accolade
Vannessa Hearman, 'Dismantling the "Fortress": East Java and the Transition to Suharto’s New Order Regime (1965-68)'.

Ground-Breaking Subject Matter Accolade
Philip Bradford Yampolsky, 'Music and Media in the Dutch East Indies: Gramophone Records and Radio in the Late Colonial Era, 1903-1942'.

Specialist Publication Accolade
Jamie Jungmin Yoo, 'Materiality and Writing: Circulation of Texts, Reading and Reception, and Production of Literature in Late 18th-Century Korea'.