Al McCoy awarded George McT. Kahin Prize

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At its annual meeting in Honolulu, the Association for Asian Studies awarded the George McT. Kahin Prize this year to Professor Alfred W. McCoy for his book "Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State" (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009).

The George McT. Kahin Prize of the Association for Asian Studies is given every other year to an outstanding scholar of Southeast Asian studies from any discipline or country specialization to recognize distinguished scholarly work on Southeast Asia beyond the author’s first book. There are no citizenship or residence requirements for nominees. The award was initiated in 2007 at the behest of the Cornell University Center for Southeast Asian Studies, friends and students of George Kahin, and the Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies to honor the contributions of George McT. Kahin to the field of Southeast Asian Studies.

Nominations for the prize may be made by trade book publishers, university presses, or any member of the Association for Asian Studies. Self-nomination is not allowed. Authors need not be AAS members. Any original, scholarly, nonfiction works with a copyright date of 2008 or 2009 are eligible, but reference works, exhibition catalogs, translations, textbooks, collections of previously published essays, poetry, fiction, travel books, memoirs or autobiographies are not eligible.

* Text taken from the Association for Asian Studies Website