2022 Winner

Sonia Wigh (Exeter) 

The Body of Words: A social history of sex and the body in early modern South Asia

Finalists:

Taushif Kara (Cambridge)

Abode of peace: Islam, empire and the Khoja diaspora.  

Katie Campbell (Cambridge)

Cities and the Mongol Conquest: Urban Change 1200-1400

Melyn McKay (Oxford)

For women there are two Nirvanas: Risk and Freedom in Myanmar’s contemporary Buddhist revival movement  

Matthew Woolgar (Oxford)

Communism in Context: The Indonesian Communist Party in West Java

2021 Winner

Mallika Leuzinger (UCL) 

Dwelling in Photography: Intimacy, Amateurism and the Camera in South Asia.

Finalists:

Stefano Gandolfo (Oxford)

The Streams of Knowledge: Organising the Siku Quanshu.  

Shreyashi Dasgupta (Cambridge)

The Accommodation City: Private Low-Income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai.

2020 Winner

Liana Chase (SOAS)

Healing ‘Heart-Minds’: Disaster, Care, and Global Mental Health in Nepal’s Himalayan Foothills. 

Finalists:

Hannah Theaker (Oxford) 

Moving Muslims: The Great Northwestern Rebellion and the Transformation of Chinese Islam, 1860-1896. 

Hedwig Waters (UCL) 

‘Living from loan to loan’: Tracing networks of gifts, debt and trade in the Mongolian borderlands.

2019 Winner

Lexi (Alexandra) Stadlen (LSE)

Weaving lives from Violence: Possibility and Change for Muslim Women in West Bengal

Finalists:

Radha Kapuria (KCL)

Music in Colonial Punjab: A Social History

Ahmad Moradi (Manchester)

Politics of Persuasion: Making and Unmaking Revolution in Iran

Sahil Nijhawan (UCL)

Human-animal relations and the role of cultural norms in tiger conservation in the Idu Mishmi of Arunachal Pradesh, India

2018 Winner

Johannes Lotze (Manchester)
Translation of Empire: Mongol Legacy, Language Policy, and the Early Ming World Order, 1368-1453

Finalists:

Kyle Jackson (Warwick)
Colonial Conquest and Religious Entanglement: A Mizo History from Northeast India (c. 1890-1920)

Ed Pulford (Cambridge)
On northeast Asian Frontiers of History and Friendship

Partha Pratim Shil (Cambridge)
Police labour and state-formation in Bengal, c. 1860 – c. 1950

Callie Wilkinson (Cambridge)
The Residents of the British East India Company at Indian Royal Courts, c. 1798-1818