Distinguished Service Award
Lifetime contribution to Latin American history
The Award for Distinguished Service to the profession was established in 1969 by the CLAH General Committee. Guidelines for selection are based upon the relevant CLAH By-Laws: The award shall be conferred upon a person whose career in scholarship, teaching, publishing, librarianship, institutional development or other fields demonstrates significant contributions to the advancement of the study of Latin American history in the United States.

Winners:

2006    Georgette Dorn, Library of Congress
2005    Charles Hale, University of Iowa
2004    James Lockhart, UCLA
2003    Thomas Skidmore, Brown University
2002    Ralph Lee Woodward, Texas Christian University
2001    Michael C. Meyer, University of Arizona
2000    Emilia Viotti da Costa, Yale University
1999    Dauril Alden, University of Washington
1998    Richard Greenleaf, Tulane University
1997    John Lynch, University of London.
1996    David Bushnell, University of Florida
1995    John Jay TePaske, Duke University
1994    Tulio Halperin-Donghi, University of California, Berkeley
1993    E. Bradford Burns, University of California, Los Angeles
1992    Magnus Mörner 
1991    Stanley Stein, Princeton University
1990    Ursula Lamb
1989    William Griffith
1987    Co-Awards: John J. Johnson, Stanford University
            Charles R. Boxer, Yale University
1985    Benjamin Keen, Northern Illinois University
1983    Irving Leonard, University of Michigan
1981    Charles Gibson, University of Michigan
1979    Woodrow W. Borah, University of California at Berkeley
1977    Arthur P. Whitaker, University of Pennsylvania
1975    Nettie Lee Benson, University of Texas at Austin
1973    Lewis Hanke, University of Massachusetts
1971    Howard F. Cline, Library of Congress
1970    Charles Griffin

Distinguished Service Award Committees (Chair listed first):

2007    Michael Gonzales, Jane Landers, Susan Ramirez
2006    Susan Socolow, George Reid Andrews, Mary Roldan
2005    William Beezley, Charles Fleener, Edith Couturier
2004    Luis Pérez, Roderick Barman, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
2003    Peter Bakewell, Erick Langer, Susan Kellogg
2002    Jane Rausch, Muriel Nazarri, John Tutino
2001    Stafford Poole, David McCreery, Linda Salvucci
2000    Steve Stern, Linda Hall, Richard Salvucci
1999    Edith Couturier, Mary Kay Vaughan, Richard Walter
1998    Georgette Dorn, Thomas E. Skidmore, Asunción Lavrin
1997    John Jay TePaske,Silvia Marina Arrom, Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.
1996    Richard Walters, Muriel Nazzari, Asunción Lavrin
1995    Mike Meyer, Franklin Knight, Susan Socolow
1994    Arnold Bauer, Nancy Farriss, John Coatsworth
1993    Robert Levine, Teresita Martínez-Vergne
1992    Jane Rausch, Larry Clayton, David Sweet
1991    Lowell Gudmundson, John Super, Thomas Davies Jr., Timothy Harding
1990    Peggy Liss, Todd Diacon, Heather Fowler Salamini
1989    Charles Stansifer, Joseph Tulchin, Colin M. MacLachlin
1987    Stuart Schwartz, Richard Morse, John J. TePaske
1985    Frank Staffford, Mark Burkholder, John Hart, Murdo MacLeod
1981    Thomas McGann, Thomas Skidmore, Murdo MacLeod, Lyman Johnson, High Hamill
1980    Robert A. Potash, Christon Archer, Fredrick Nunn, Stuart Schwartz, R.N. Sinkin
1978    John Harrison, Marvin Bernstein, Thomas McGann
1976    Lyle McAlister, John Wirth, Ralph Woodward
1974    Edwin Lieuwen, Woodrow Borah, Stanley Stein
1972    Charles Gibson, Rayford Logan, Mathias Kienan
1970    Lewis Hanke, Richard Morse, James Wilkie
*Established 1969

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