Teren Sevea Wins Association for Asian Studies’ Harry J. Benda Prize for Best First Book on Southeast Asian Studies

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Alumni Teren Sevea (now Assistant Professor at Harvard Divinity School) won the Association for Asian Studies’ Harry J. Benda Prize for best first book on Southeast Asian Studies for the book  Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Teren’s dissertation (upon which the book is based) previously won the history department’s award for best dissertation. Here is general link: https://www.asianstudies.org/aas-2022-prizes/