Lydia Cabrera Award
        Research project on Cuban history before 1868.
Cabrera Awards are made possible by a generous bequest from Lydia Cabrera.  They are available to support the study of Cuba between 1492 and 1868.  Awards are designed specifically to support:  1) original research on Cuban history in Spanish, Mexican, and U. S. archives; 2) the publication of meritorious books on Cuba currently out of print; and 3) the publication of historical statistics, historical documents, and  guides to Spanish archives relating to Cuban history between 1492 and 1868.

Winners:

2006
Eric Paul, University of California, Davis, “Enlightenment Slavery: The Cuban Plantation in the Age of Revolution”
Marianne Samayoa, University of Minnesota, “Shaping Health Care in Early Nineteenth-Century Cuba”
David Wheat, Vanderbilt University,“Shouldering the Golden Age: Africans and Afrocreoles in Havana, 1580-1640”

2005
Aisha Finch, New York University, “Junctures of Insurgency:  Cuban Slaves and the Conspiracy of La Escalera, 1843-44.”

2004
Evelyn Powell Jennings, Saint Lawrence University,  "State Slavery in Colonial Havana, 1763-1840."

2003: No award (no applications received)

2002
Michele Reid, University of Texas, Austin, “Negotiating a Slave Regime:  Free People of Color in Cuba, 1844-1868.”

2001
Maria Elena Diaz, Merrill College, "Slave Emancipation and the Changing Meanings of Freedom in Cuba and Spain, 1780-1810"
Charlotte Cosner, Florida International University, "Rich and Poor, Black and White, Slave and Free:  A Social History of Cuba's Tobacco Farmers, 1763-1817"
William Van Norman, University of North Carolina, "Shade Grown Slavery: Life on a Coffee Plantation in Western Cuba,1790-1845"

2000
Luis Martínez Fernández, Rutgers University, “Translation of Alexander von Humboldt's "Political Essay on the Island of Cuba"
David A. Sartorius, University of North Carolina, "The Limits of Loyalty:  Race and the Public Sphere in19th Century Cienfuegos"

1999
Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University “Afro-Floridian Exiles in Cuba, 1763 and 1821"

1998
Marikay McCabe, Columbia University, "Regulating Work, Legislating Gender: 'Public
Women' in Nineteenth-Century Havana, Cuba"
M. Sherry Johnson, Florida International University "The Majority Were Totally Destroyed:  Natural Disasters and the Course of Cuban History, 1763-1804.”

1997
Jeffrey Voris, Emory University, “The Development of 16th Century Cuban Society.”
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Stanford University, “Empire and Anti- Slavery: Spain, Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1833-1898.”

1996
Matt D. Childs, University of Texas, Austin, "The Aponte Conspiracy of 1812."

1995
Joseph Carroll Dorsey, Hamilton College, "Troubled Tao: Self, Otherness, and Dissidence Among Chinese Workers in Nineteenth-Century Cuba."

1994 Amy Ferlazzo “Vagrancy in 19th Century Cuba 1820-1868.”

Alfonso Quiroz Columbia University, “The Origins of Financial Institutions in Cuba 1840-1868.”

Linda Salvucci, Trinity University, “Spanish Protectionist Policies US-Cuba Trade, 1821-1898.”

Cabrera Prize Committees (Chair listed first):
2007    Ada Ferrer, Louis Perez, Reinaldo L. Román
2006    Lynn Stoner, Juan Carlos Santamarina, Joan Casanovas
2005    Lynn Stoner, Juan Carlos Santamarina, Joan Casanovas
2004    Joan Casanovas, David Sartorius, Juan Carlos Santamaria
2003    Colin Palmer, Alejandro de la Fuente, María Elena Díaz
2002    Laird W. Bergard, Eileen Findlay, Alejandra Bronfman
2001    Lynn Stoner, Alida Metcalf, Kirwin R. Shaffer
2000    Ada Ferrer, Jane Landers, Sherry Johnson
1999    Rosalie Schwartz, Allen Kuethe, Luis Martinez-Fernandez
1998    Louis Pérez Jr., Luis Martínez-Fernández, Lynn Stoner
1997    Louis Pérez Jr., Rebecca J. Scott, Lynn Stoner

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