John Legge Prize
John Legge Prize Past Winners
2021-2023
2023 Winner: Lukas Fort – University of Western Australia, 鈥�Making Indonesia clean from waste: The role of culture in the development of new waste management services in Sumbawa, Indonesia鈥�
2023 Honourable Mention: Sarah Gosper – University of Melbourne, 鈥�Modest Expectations: Masculinity, Marriage, and the Good Life in Urban China鈥�
2023 Honourable Mention: Felix Pal – ANU, 鈥�Weaponised Pluralism: Why Hindu Nationalists Need Muslim Friends鈥�
2022 Winner:聽Kaira Zoe Alburo Ca帽ete 鈥� University of New South Wales, 鈥�Becoming Resilient: Disaster Recovery in Post-Yolanda Philippines through Women鈥檚 Eyes鈥�
2022 Runner-up: Jarrah Sastrawan – University of Sydney, 鈥�The Precarious Past: Historical Practices in Indic Java鈥�
2021 Winner: Cheng Nien Yuan – University of Sydney, ‘The Storytelling State: Performing Life Histories in Singapore‘
2021 Runner-up: Rebecca Meckelburg – Murdoch University, ‘Subaltern Agency and the Political Economy of Rural Social Change‘
2011-2020
2020 Winner: Sophie Chao 鈥� Macquarie University
鈥�In the Shadow of the Palms: Plant-Human Relations Among the Marind-Anim, West Papua鈥�
2019 Winner: Gwyn Andrew McClelland 鈥� Monash University
鈥�Legacies of Suffering, Theologies of Hope: Nagasaki Catholics, the Bomb and Dangerous Memory鈥�
2019 Runner-up: Eve Warburton 鈥� Australian National University
鈥�Our Resources, Our Rules: A Political Economy of Nationalism in Indonesia鈥檚 Natural Resources Sectors鈥�
2018 Winner: Kathryn Dyt 鈥� Australian National University
鈥�The Nguy峄卬 Weather-World: Environment, Emotion and Governance in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam鈥�
2018 Runner-up: Rebecca Gidley 鈥� Australian National University
鈥�Illiberal Transitional Justice: The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia鈥�
2017 Winner: Annie McCarthy 鈥� Australian National University
鈥�Under Development: Stories of Children and NGOs in Delhi, India鈥�
2016 Winner: Jess Melvin 鈥� Melbourne University
鈥�Mechanics of Mass Murder: how the Indonesian Military Initiated and Implemented the Indonesian Genocide鈥擳he Case of Aceh鈥�
2016 Runner-up: Le Hoang Ngoc Yen 鈥� Australian National University
鈥�Living Leprosy in Vietnam: Care, Affliction and Agency in the Shadows of a Cure鈥�
2015 Winner: Cindy Bryson 鈥� Australian National University
鈥�A valuable life: seeing transformative practice among Phnom Penh鈥檚 waste pickers鈥�
2015 Runner-up: Stephanie Chok 鈥� Murdoch University
鈥�Labour justice and political responsibility: an ethics-centred approach to temporary low-paid labour migration in Singapore鈥�
2014 Joint Winner: Vannessa Hearman 鈥� University of Melbourne
鈥�Dismantling the 鈥淔ortress鈥�: East Java and the Transition to Suharto鈥檚 New Order Regime鈥�
2014 Joint Winner: Charanpal Singh Bal 鈥� Murdoch University
鈥�The Politics of Obedience: Bangladeshi Construction Workers and the Migrant Labour Regime in Singapore鈥櫬�
2014 Runner-up: Tom Cliff 鈥� Australian National University
鈥�Oil and Water: Experiences of Being Han in 21st-Century Korla, Xinjiang鈥�
2013 Winner: Nicholas Cheesman 鈥� Australian National University
鈥�The Politics of Law and Order in Myanmar鈥�
2013 Runner-up: Mark Pendleton 鈥� University of Melbourne
鈥�Sarin Traces: Memory Texts and Practices in Postward Japan, 1995-2010鈥�
2012 Winner: Hongwei Bao 鈥� University of Sydney
鈥�Queer comrades: gay identity and politics in post socialist China鈥�
2011 Winner: Dr Roberto Manuel Benedicto 鈥� University of Melbourne
鈥�Bright Lights, Gay Globality: Mobility, Class, and Gay Life in Twenty-first Century Manila鈥�
2001-2010
2010 Winner: Dr William Fryer 鈥� University of Queensland
鈥�Interpretive and source-oriented approaches: modern Japanese free verse poetry in English translation鈥�
2009 Winner: Assistant Professor Nanlai Cao 鈥� ANU
鈥�Constructing China鈥檚 Jerusalem: Christians, Power and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou鈥�
2008 Winner: Dr Damien Evans 鈥� University of Sydney
鈥�Putting Angkor on the Map: a New Survey of a Khmer 鈥淗ydraulic City鈥� in Historical and Theoretical Context鈥�
2007 Winner: Dr Wasan Panyagaew 鈥� ANU
鈥�Moving Dai: Towards an anthropology of people 鈥渓iving in place鈥� in the borderlands of the upper Mekong鈥�
2006 Joint Winner: Dr Katharine McKinnon 鈥� ANU
鈥�Locating Post-Development Subjects: discourses of intervention and identification in the highlands of northern Thailand鈥�
2006 Joint Winner: Dr Romit Dasgupta 鈥� Curtin University of Technology
鈥�Crafting Masculinity: Negotiating Masculine Identities in the Japanese Workplace鈥�
2005 Winner: Dr Adam Bowles 鈥� La Trobe University
鈥�Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India鈥�
2004 Joint Winner: Dr Kaosar Afsana 鈥� Edith Cowan University
鈥�Power, Knowledge and Childbirth Practices: An Ethnographic Exploration in Bangladesh鈥�
2004 Joint Winner: Dr Kama Maclean 鈥� La Trobe University
鈥�Power and Pilgrimage: The Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954鈥�
2003 Winner: Dr Linda Rae Bennett 鈥� University of Queensland
鈥�Dialectics of Desire and Danger: maidenhood, sexuality and modernity in Mataram, eastern Indonesia鈥�
2002 Winner: Dr Beatrice Trefalt 鈥� Murdoch University
鈥�Unexpected Returns: stragglers of the Imperial Army and memories of the Second World War in Japan, 1950-1975鈥�
2001 Winner: Dr Michael Laffan 鈥� University of Sydney
鈥�The Umma Below the Winds: Mecca, Cairo, Reformist Islam and a Conceptualization of Indonesia鈥�
1997-2000
2000 Winner: Dr Koichi Iwabuchi 鈥� University of Western Sydney
鈥�Returning to Asia: Japan in the Cultural Dynamics of Globalization, Localization and Asianization鈥�
1999 Winner: Dr Michael Barr 鈥� University of Queensland
鈥�Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs behind the Man鈥�
1998 Winner: Dr Seung-Ho Kwon 鈥� UNSW
鈥�Control and Conflict: the Historical Development of Labour Management within the Hyundai Business Group, 1946-1995鈥�
1997 Winner: Dr Mark Hudson 鈥� ANU
鈥�Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis on the Japanese Island, 400 BC to AC 1400鈥�
