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Cornell Undergraduate Wins 2nd Place SEADL Paper Award

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September 30, 2025

Jonathan Lam, Legacies of War: Unhealed Wounds and the Deportation of Southeast Asian Refugees

Congratulations to Jonathan Lam!

The Southeast Asia Digital Library is pleased to announce the winners of the fifth annual SEADL Undergraduate Paper Award! 

Congratulations to Courtine Bui of Yale University for her first-place winning paper, The Nationhood of Vietnamese America: Cultural Identity as Understood in the Diasporic Imagination

And to Jonathan Lam of Cornell University for his second-place winning paper, Legacies of War: Unhealed Wounds and the Deportation of Southeast Asian Refugees

Thank you to Cornell University Press for their generous sponsorship of this competition. Thank you also to every librarian and instructor who encouraged their students to submit their work. This award would not be possible without your support of SEADL and undergraduate research. Winners from previous award cycles can also be read on SEADL.

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