Bluestone Rising Scholar Award Recipients for 2021 Announced

2021-03-23

We are pleased to announce the results of the international competition for the Bluestone Rising Scholar Prize for 2021. The journal received numerous outstanding submissions from South Asia, Europe, and North America. Our jury, consisting of leading academics from South Asia, the UK, and the USA, deliberated together over a period of several weeks.  Read the full announcement and also this news release and interview with the winners.

 

 

Video of the 2019 Bluestone Rising Scholar Prize Award Ceremony

2020-07-21

Watch Brandeis University Provost Lisa Lynch,  Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Mark Brimhall-Vargas, University Librarian Mathew Sheehy, J-CASTE Editors Laurence Simon and Sukhadeo Thorat among others speak on the importance of the Bluestone Prize and make the first awards to Rising Scholar winners Maya Pramod and Vivek Narayan. A special award was also conferred on Phillip Martin, WGBH Senior Investigative Reporter for his 5-part series on Caste in America.