06/05/2026
Charles Leslie Prize
The Charles Leslie prize seeks to honour the work of Charles Leslie and his dedication to IASTAM, and aims to encourage young scholars in the field that he helped to establish. Sadly, Professor Leslie died in 2009. It is hoped that these awards act in some way as a fitting tribute to the man himself, a much-liked and respected colleague, as well as for his outstanding contributions to the field of Asian Medicine. This prize is awarded to the best original, unpublished scholarly essay on Asian medicine submitted to the competition and judged by the IASTAM Council.
The nominee for the award must be a member in good standing of IASTAM, and must fall into any of the following categories:
-a practitioner of an Asian medical tradition (with fewer than three publications), or
-a graduate student, or
-a recent PhD who received his/her doctoral degree fewer than five years prior to the deadline for nomination, or
-a scholar who is in a contingent faculty position without tenure or long-term contract (e.g., adjunct, one-year visiting scholar, etc.)
There are no age restrictions on entering for this prize. The paper should apply methods from anthropology, history, or any other academic discipline to the critical study of Asian medical systems in context, and from any period up to the present. The winning essay will be announced in IASTAM publications and the society website.
In order to be considered for the prize, all manuscripts must be submitted to the Asian Medicine journal through the normal submission process (https://brill.com/asme) no later than Sept 1, 2026. Please follow all points in the Instructions for Authors document; however, at the very top of your manuscript you should label it with {Submission for Charles Leslie Prize}. This will trigger our editorial team to submit it to IASTAM for consideration for the prize. All competition submissions received before the deadline will undergo the normal editorial board screening and peer review process. All papers that are accepted will move forward to publication in the next available journal issue, and the winning paper will be selected from among these manuscripts.
Previous recipients:
2021 Will Ceurvels
2016 Di Lu
2013 Karen McNamara
2009 Soyoung Suh
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