{"id":29688,"date":"2018-10-29T14:56:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=29688"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:12:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:12:35","slug":"sharon-luk-wins-a-book-prize-from-asa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/sharon-luk-wins-a-book-prize-from-asa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Luk wins a book prize from ASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Awards Ceremony \/ American Studies Association<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 23, 2018\u2014<\/strong>\u201cThe American Studies Association has awarded the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize to <strong>Sharon Luk<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity&nbsp;<\/em>(University of California Press).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-28082\" src=\"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/life_of_paper_cover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"207\">\u201cAccording to the committee, \u2018a theoretically sharp, elegantly written, and deeply moving work of scholarship,&nbsp;<em>The Life of Paper<\/em>&nbsp;examines how unspectacular acts of letter-writing by incarcerated subjects document and maneuver through the infrastructural scaffolding of citizenship, security, the nation-state, and global capitalism.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ethnic.uoregon.edu\/profile\/sluk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharon Luk<\/a> is a CSWS faculty affiliate and an assistant professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Awards Ceremony \/ American Studies Association October 23, 2018\u2014\u201cThe American Studies Association has awarded the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize to Sharon Luk,&nbsp;The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity&nbsp;(University of California Press).&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/sharon-luk-wins-a-book-prize-from-asa\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,8,17,5],"tags":[842,721,720,158],"class_list":["post-29688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-books","category-faculty-affiliates","category-research","tag-asa","tag-life-of-paper","tag-sharon-luk","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31122,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29688\/revisions\/31122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}