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MCAA 2012 Annual Prizes and Awards

Sidney DeVere Brown Undergraduate Student Prize
Mimi Amelang, Macalester College
"Pentecostalism in Sri Lanka: Negotiating Faith and Identity in a Hostile Setting"


Mikiso Hane Undergraduate Student Prize

Lina Mistron, Macalester College
“Spirit of the Age: The Significance of Female Characters in Hakai and Kokoro”


Percy Buchanan Graduate Student Prize for China and Inner Asia

Xin Zou, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Private Knowledge and Local Community in the Xie Xiao’e Stories, with a Translation of ‘The Account of Xie Xiao’e’”


Percy Buchanan Graduate Student Prize for Northeast Asia

Chengpang Lee, University of Chicago
“Shadow of the Colonial Power: Kominka and the Failure of the Temple Reorganization Campaign”


Percy Buchanan Graduate Student Prize for Southeast Asia

Hilary Disch, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“A New Vision: Camari, Camadevi, and Female Sovereignty in Northern Thailand”

Special thanks to the judges:
Taylor Atkins, Parks Coble, Robert Entenmann, Phyllis Larson, Justin McDaniel, Benjamin Ridgeway, Robert Tierney, Gary Xu, and Seungjoo Yoon.