http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Thu, 23 May 2013 22:42:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://sseas.berkeley.edu/news/professor-jeffrey-hadler-wins-2011-benda-prize http://sseas.berkeley.edu/news/professor-jeffrey-hadler-wins-2011-benda-prize#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:43:02 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=8721 Jeffrey Hadler, associate professor of Southeast Asian studies, is this year's winner of the Harry J. Benda Prize, which is awarded annually to an outstanding young scholar for a first book in the field of Southeast Asian Studies. Hadler is being honored for "Muslims and Matriarchs," which explores the social history of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra. UC Berkeley is now the world's only university to have three Benda Prize recipients on its faculty.]]> http://sseas.berkeley.edu/news/professor-jeffrey-hadler-wins-2011-benda-prize/feed/ 0