Kristina Chew Paper Prize

About the Prize

This prize was started to honor Kristina Chew, Associate Teaching Professor at Rutgers University and Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Santa Cruz. Her prescient research on Asian and Asian American reception, first undertaken in the 1990s, has laid the foundation for the work of the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus (AAACC). Her work on classical reception, translation, disability, and pedagogy has made a lasting contribution to the field of Classics, where she has inspired countless students through her teaching and mentorship.

In honor of Professor Chew, we invite submissions of papers that engage with the ancient Mediterranean and Asian or Asian American material and/or methods, broadly construed.

Guidelines

We encourage submissions of unpublished papers written by high school students, undergraduates, graduate students, and junior scholars who have received their PhD within the past three years. Papers will be assessed in accordance with the author’s career stage. You do not need to be a member of the AAACC to submit. Papers should not exceed 7500 words, including notes but excluding bibliography and illustrations or figures. Each author may submit one paper per cycle to aaaclassicalcaucus@gmail.com. Authors should remove their names and institutions, as well as any other identifying information, from their documents before submission. The winner(s) of the prize will be selected by a jury of at least three AAACC officers and/or board members and will be awarded a cash prize. The AAACC reserves the right not to confer the prize in any year in which no suitable candidate is found.

The deadline to submit is June 30, 2026.