The IBP 6 Reading Committee Accolades
IBP 6 Reading Committtee Accolades - Humanities
Publishers Accolade for Outstanding Production Values
Inha Jung, Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea. University of Hawai’I Press: Honolulu 2013.
Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the non-Specialist Reader Accolade
Jeffrey W. Alexander, Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry. University of Hawai’I Press: Honolulu 2014.
Specialist Publication Accolade
Daria Berg, Women in the Literary World in Early Modern China. Routledge: Oxon 2013.
Best Teaching Tool Accolade
K.W. Taylor, A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2013.
Ground-Breaking Matter Accolade
Richard Pearson, Ancient Ryukyu. University of Hawai’i Press: Honolulu 2013.
Edited Volume Accolade
Oliver Pye and Jayati Bhattacharya, The Palm Oil Controversy in Southeast Asia. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies: Singapore 2012.
Best Art Book Accolade
Theresia Hofer, Bodies in Balance: the Art of Tibetan Medicine. University of Washington Press: Seattle 2014.
IBP 6 Reading Committtee Accolades - Social Sciences
Publishers Accolade for Outstanding Production Values
Alban von Stockhausen, Imag(in)ing the Nagas: The Pictorial Ethnography of Hans-Eberhard Kauffmann and Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. Arnoldische Art Publishers: Stuttgart 2014.
Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the non-Specialist Reader Accolade
Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert and Helen Tiffin, Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan. University of Hawai’i Press: Honolulu 2014.
Specialist Publication Accolade
Hans Ulrich Vogel, Marco Polo Was in China. New Evidence from Currencies, Salts and Revenues. Brill: Leiden / Boston 2013.
Best Teaching Tool Accolade
Li Narangoa and Robert Cribb, Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia 1590-2010. Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia. Columbia University Press: New York 2014.
Ground-Breaking Matter Accolade
Lynette J. Chua, Mobilizing Gay Singapore. Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State. Singapore. NUS Press 2014.
Edited Volume Accolade
Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff (eds.), Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders. University of Hawai’i Press: Honolulu 2014.
Best Art Book Accolade
Venka Purushothaman (ed.), The Art of Sukumar Bose: Reflections on South and Southeast Asia. ISEAS Press: Singapore 2013.
IBP 6 Dissertation Reading Committee Accolades - Humanities
Most Accessible and Captivating
Vannessa Hearman, Dismantling the ‘Fortress’: East Java and the Transition to Suharto’s New Order Regime (1965-68)
Ground-Breaking Subject Matter
Philip Bradford Yampolsky, Music and Media in the Dutch East Indies: Gramophone Records and Radio in the Late Colonial Era, 1903-1942
Specialist Publication
Jamie Jungmin Yoo, Materiality and Writing: Circulation of Texts, Reading and Reception, and Production of Literature in Late 18th-Century Korea
IBP 6 Dissertation Reading Committee Accolades - Social Sciences
Most Accessible and Captivating
David Kloos, Becoming Better Muslims: Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia.
Ground-Breaking Subject Matter
Tallyn Gray, Justice and Transition in Cambodia, 1979-2014: Process, Meaning, and Narrative.
Specialist Publication
Anke Marion Hein, Cultural Geography and Interregional Contacts in Prehistoric Liangshan.