Congratulations to Ann Marie Leshkowich, recipient of the 2016 Harry J. Benda Book Prize

Christina Schwenkel christina.schwenkel at ucr.edu

Fri Feb 12 07:17:33 PST 2016

Congratulations to Ann Marie Leshkowich, recipient of the 2016 Harry J. Benda Book Prize for her pioneering ethnography, Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace, University of Hawai’i Press.

More about the book can be found here: https://www.uhawaiipress.com/p-9232-9780824839901.aspx

The award will be presented at the upcoming AAS conference in Seattle.

Look forward to seeing everyone there and to celebrating with Ann Marie!

Christina

Christina Schwenkel

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Program in Southeast Asian Studies (SEATRiP)

University of California, Riverside

900 University Avenue

Riverside, CA 92521 USA

Merav Shohet mshohetg at gmail.com

Fri Feb 12 07:41:01 PST 2016

Fantastic news! Congratulations, Ann Marie! So well-deserved!

I’ve been teaching the book in an economic/moral anthropology advanced undergraduate class and it’s great - the students, too, love it.

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Dr. Merav Shohet

Department of Anthropology

University of Toronto Scarborough

mshohet at utsc.utoronto.ca <mailto:mshohet at utsc.utoronto.ca>

merav at post.harvard.edu <mailto:merav at post.harvard.edu>

Diane Fox dnfox70 at gmail.com

Fri Feb 12 08:07:01 PST 2016

Wonderful news!! Many, many congratulations, Ann Marie!!

Diane

Diane Fox

Independent Scholar

Janet Alison Hoskins jhoskins at usc.edu

Fri Feb 12 08:46:22 PST 2016

Congratulations to Ann-Marie!

This is great news, and the fact that the Benda prize has recently gone to scholars of Vietnam both last year (Erik Harms for Saigon's Edge) and this year show the strength and creativity of this new generation of scholars.

I will be happy to watch Ann-Marie get this award in Seattle.

On another note, does anyone know the current email for Charles Wheeler, who has published on Vietnamese maritime history?

Janet

Janet Alison Hoskins

Professor of Anthropology and Religion, USC, Los Angeles

https://dornsife.usc.edu/dr-janet-hoskins

https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003365

Edward G. Miller Edward.G.Miller at dartmouth.edu

Fri Feb 12 09:46:43 PST 2016

Let me echo Janet and everyone else in expressing heartiest congratulations on Ann Marie!

I will also agree with Janet about what this reveals about the strength of Vietnamese Studies. One point of fact: this is actually the *third* year in a row the Benda has gone to a Vietnamese Studies specialist. Erik won two years ago for Saigon's Edge, and Charles Keith won last year for Catholic Vietnam.

Edward Miller

Associate Professor of History

Dartmouth College

6107 Carson Hall, Hanover, NH 03755

Edward.Miller at Dartmouth.edu<mailto:Edward.Miller at Dartmouth.edu>

http://history.dartmouth.edu/people/edward-miller

Turner, Karen kturner at holycross.edu

Fri Feb 12 09:50:10 PST 2016

So proud and grateful to have you as our colleague here at Holy Cross, Ann

Marie.

Thompson, C. M. thompsonc2 at southernct.edu

Fri Feb 12 10:19:00 PST 2016

Dear Ann Marie,

My heartiest congratulations also and kudos to all of our winners for what I suspect is an unprecedented three-peat.

cheers

Michele

Michele Thompson

Professor of Southeast Asian History

Dept. of History

Southern Connecticut State Univ.

Janet Alison Hoskins jhoskins at usc.edu

Fri Feb 12 10:52:02 PST 2016

I stand happily corrected, and think this is a great sign of state of the field.

Janet

Janet Alison Hoskins

Professor of Anthropology and Religion, USC, Los Angeles

https://dornsife.usc.edu/dr-janet-hoskins

https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003365

Justin McDaniel jmcdan at sas.upenn.edu

Fri Feb 12 12:58:54 PST 2016

Although I can't reveal any details, the list might like to know that not only have books by scholars of Vietnam won lately, the runners up have also been well-represented by scholars of Vietnam. These deliberations have been very close and the submissions reflect the great strength of Vietnam Studies and SEAsian Studies more broadly.

Best,

Justin

Abrami, Regina rabrami at wharton.upenn.edu

Fri Feb 12 15:33:02 PST 2016

Such great news! Congratulations Ann Marie!

Regina

Kirsten Endres kirsten.endres at gmx.net

Sat Feb 13 06:02:26 PST 2016

This is great news - congratulations to Ann Marie!!! I wish I could join

you all in Seattle for the celebration!

Cheers,

Kirsten