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September 21, 2022

Jackson School alumna receives Goldsmith and Sperber book prize

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Re-posted with permission from the blog of the UW Southeast Asia Center  Jackson School Alumna Elizabeth Becker has received the Harvard University Goldsmith Book Prize: Trade category and Fordham University Sperber Prize for her recent book You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War. The book tells the stories of three female journalists reporting on the…

April 26, 2020

Libraries’ Installation The Age of the Kampuchea Picture Wins a Center for Research Libraries Primary Source Award

Judith Henchy, Ph.D., MLIS Head, Southeast Asia Section, Special Assistant to the Dean of University Libraries for international Programs; Affiliate Faculty, Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington Libraries

“Every time I remember Elizabeth Becker’s pictures, I cannot help but see Pol Pot’s total control of the production and consumption of these images; his vision of Kampuchea saturates them all.  I cannot see beyond it.” –Adrian Alarilla The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has awarded the 2020 Primary Source Award in the Research category…