2025 IACS Dissertation Prize Winner This year, we received forty nominations from Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, the UK, and the US. The dissertations reflect a wonderfully diverse range of critical issues that are grounded in, converge across, and transcend, Asia. Our jury consisting of Professors Fran Martin (chair), Yiu-fai Chow, Sharmani Gabriel, and Madhuja Mukherjee took on the tremendous task of reviewing all submissions. They noted that the overall quality of the submissions was exceptionally high, making the selection process both challenging and genuinely exciting. After much deliberation and discussion, the jury selected Sirithorn Siriwan as the winner of the 2025 prize, for the outstanding dissertation titled, “Between Lives: Livingness and Remnants of Rice Ontology in Northern Thailand”. Congratulations, Sirithorn Siriwan, on winning the 2025 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Dissertation Prize. We also extend our sincere thanks to all the participants for entering this year’s competition. We wish you all the best in your further careers. For the jury’s full response to the winning dissertation, please visit our website: https://culturalstudies.asia/2025-iacs-dissertation…/
