Lydia Walker Receives 2025 James J. Busuttil Prize and Medal for Human Rights

Former Graduate Student Associate Lydia Walker, assistant professor and Myers Chair in Global Military History at The Ohio State University, is the corecipient of the 2025 James J. Busuttil Prize and Medal for Human Rights for her book, States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization (Cambridge University Press, 2024). The prize, given by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, goes to exemplary works of early career scholarship that make a distinctive and compelling contribution to the study of human rights. According to the Royal Asia Society, the Medal and Prize are offered by Dr. James J. Busuttil, an activist, author, academic and nongovernmental organization leader in human rights, to promote research and publication on human rights. The award was instigated in 2024 and the inaugural award was made in 2025.