History Compass Graduate Essay Prize - Asia Section

Many thanks to all of you who entered the 2007 Graduate Essay Prize.

The results of the Asia section prize have now been confirmed:

Winner

Education for all: reassessing the historiography of education in colonial India
Catriona Ellis, University of Edinburgh

Runner-up

Reading the Rural Modern: Literacy and Morality in Republican China
Kate Merkel-Hess, University of California, Irvine

The final results are listed below (and are also available as a PDF). Winners and runners-up will be published in History Compass, with winners also receiving $200 / £100 of free Blackwell books.

Winners

Education for all: reassessing the historiography of education in colonial India
Catriona Ellis, University of Edinburgh (Asia Prize)

Falsified by History: Menzies, Asia and Post-Imperial Australia
Mads Clausen, University of Copenhagen (Australasia & Pacific Prize)

How far is the ‘rhetoric of inclusion; reality of exclusion’ argument applicable to the relationship of Afro-Latin Americans to the nation-state?
Helen Creighton, University College London (Caribbean & Latin America Prize)

To what extent have historians exploited monster literature for their own ends?
Anna Dunthorne, Swansea University (Europe Prize)

Scholars and the Sea: a historiography of the Indian Ocean
Sebastian Prange, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (World Prize)

No Africa, Britain & Ireland, Middle & Near East or North America Prizes were awarded this year.

Runners-up

Reading the Rural Modern: Literacy and Morality in Republican China
Kate Merkel-Hess, University of California, Irvine (Asia)

The Jews in the Medieval Polish Economy: Some Thoughts on the Historiography of the Twentieth Century
Jolanta Komornicka, Boston University (Europe)