More awards for work on Hobson-Jobson

DSNA member Traci Nagle has won the Percy Buchanan Prize for the best graduate student paper on South Asia from the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, the regional sub-association of theAssociation for Asian Studies. With the award comes an invitation to re-present the paper, on her research on the origins of "Hobson-Jobson," at the MCAA's annual meeting in October. A version of this paper was presented at June 2009 DSNA meeting in Bloomington, and Traci's research was funded in part by the DSNA-Urdang Award. Traci is an Associate Instructor in the Linguistics Department at Indiana University and Associate Editor of the IU Linguistics Online Working Papers.

The Story behind Hobson-Jobson

At the 2009 DSNA meeting in Bloomington last week, Traci Nagle, who won the Urdang-DSNA Fellowship in 2008, presented a paper on her fellowship-funded research into the origins of "Hobson-Jobson." Benjamin Zimmer of the Visual Thesaurus offers a discussion of that paper at his Word Routes blog: check out http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1874/.

We look forward to sharing other souvenirs, reflections and commentaries on the meeting--just send us the links!