James R. Scobie Memorial Award
        Pre-dissertation research trip to Latin America
The purpose of the award is to permit a short, exploratory research trip abroad (normally four to twelve weeks) to determine the feasibility of a Ph. D. dissertation topic dealing with some facet of Latin American history.

Winners:

2006
Christine Heisser, Indiana University, “Thanks to the Virgin: Migration and Faith in 20th Century Mexico”
Federico Sor, New York University. "Reorganization of Personality": Education Reform and the Military Construction of Argentine Subjects, 1976-1981”
Sophia Koutsoyannis, York University, “Popular Music and Identity in Mexico City, 1930-1960”
Uri Rosenheck, Emory University, "Fighting for Home Abroad: Citizen-Soldiers, Race and Politics in Brazil during World War II"

2005
Consuelo Figueroa, State University of New York at Stony Brook, “Becoming Chilean: Discourses and Contentions in the Construction of National Identity 1870s-1880s.” 
Valeria Manzano, Indiana University, “The Making of Youth in Argentina, 1950-1970.” 
Robert Schwaller,Pennsylvania State University, “Evolution of Racial Hierarchies and Ideologies in Early Colonial Mexico.”

2004
Cesar Seveso, Indiana University, “El ‘Verdadero’ Peronismo: The Hopes, Crumbling Convictions, and Premonitions of the Peronist and Marxist Left in Argentina, 1955-1976."

2003
Karin Velez, Princeton University, "Portuguese Jesuits and the Diffusion of the Madonna of Loreto, 1670-1720."
Brenda Elsey, SUNY Stony Brook, “Playing Politics: Football in Urban Chile 1910-1962.”

2002  None awarded (no applications received)

2001
Christopher L. Murchison, University of Miami, “Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon:  A Historical Analysis of How International Forces Have Shaped Manaus, 1915-1985.”

2000
Mayra E. Beers, Florida International University, “Murder in San Isidro: Public Power and Private Influence in the Cuban Republic, 1900-1920.”
Jennifer E. Forsythe, University of Miami,"The Impact of Modernization on Traditional Popular Medicine in Cuzco, Peru, from the 1910s to Present.”

1999
Gregory Spira, Georgetown University, “Rebellion, Resistance, and Cultural Change:  Popular Reactions to the Bourbon Reforms, San Luis Potosí, 1767-1810.”           
Annalyda Alvarez Calderon, SUNY, Stony Brook “Peasant Revolts, Intellectuals and the State: Ideology and National.”

1998               
Mauricio Damian Rivero, Brigham Young University, “The Words of God: Religious Texts and the Counter Reformation in Spain and Spanish-America.”

1997
Erica M. Windler, University of Miami, “Rio de Janeiro’s Santa Casa da Misericordia: A Case Study of Brazilian Urbanization 1808-1889.”

1996
Julia Cummings, Indiana University, “Rebellion in Tomochic, Chihuahua.”

1995
Jadwiga Piepe, Rutgers University,“The Politics of Fertility Regulation in Chile.”

1994
Harold Langfur, University of Texas-Austin, “Conflict and Collaboration: Indians, Settlers and the State in Nineteenth- Century Brazil”
Jacqueline Holle, Emory University, “Nuns in Sixteenth Century Mexico.”

1993
Ronald Young, University of California at Los Angeles, “From Mule to Motor Car: A History of Urban Transportation in Caracas, Venezuela, 1881-1947.”

1992
Maria Angelica Zubaran Sailer, State University of New York, Stonybrook, “The Politics of Freedom: Slave Resistance in Río Grande do Sul (1871-1888)”

1991
Gina Hames, Carnegie Mellon University, “Andean Chiceras:  Ethnicity and Gender Ideologies, 1860-1920”
Fred Murphy, “Argentine Nation or Porteño city-state?: Merchants, Ranchers, and Statemakers in Buenos Aires During the Post-Rosas Interregnum”

1990  No Award Given

1989
Debra Truhan, New York University, “The Hispanization of Canari Space.”

1988
Mary A. Nelson, “Hacienda San Esteban de Tiripitio- - Tarascans and Haciendas in Colonial Michoacán:A Proposal for Study.”

1987
Michael Stanfield, University of New Mexico, “The Rubber Industry and the Definition of State Limits: Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru in the Putumayo, 1880-1910.”
Peter Beattie, University of Miami, “From Tattoos to Desertion: The Experience of the Brazilian Army Pracas in the Barracks and the Community, 1890-1930.”

1986
Alan D. Belitsky, University of Miami, “Standards of Living of the Workers and the Union of the Estrada de Ferro Santos-Jundiaí: 1889-1930.”

1985
Carolyn Sexton Roy, University of California Los Angeles, “The Parral Mining Community Society in New Spain.”

1984
Carolyn Sexton Roy, University of California Los Angeles, “The Parral Mining Community Society in New Spain.”

1983
Terry M. Young, University of Texas at Austin, “Power, Privilege, and the Struggle for Statehood: Local Militias in Uruguay, 1764-1852.”

1982
Eugenio Piñero, University of Connecticut, “Cacoa Plantations, Notable Families and the Genesis of a Peasantry in the Province of Caracas: 1700-1770.”
*Established 1981

Scobie Prize Committees (Chair listed first):
2007    Silvia Arrom, Steven Topik, Justin Wolfe
2006    Pablo Piccato, Laura Gotkowitz, Jeff Mosher
2005    Andres Resendez, Barbara Sommer, Doug Sullivan
2004    Kris Lane, Lee Penyak, Greg Grandin
2003    Donald Stevens, Tamar Herzog, James Saeger
2002    Donald Stevens, Tamar Herzog, James Saeger (no award, committee same in 2003)
2001    Charles W. Berquist, Helen Delpar, Donald Stevens
2000    Noble David Cook, Catherine LeGrand, Seth Fein,  Ingrid Scobie, ex oficio
1999    Barbara Tenenbaum, Jeremy Baskes, Alida Metcalf, Ingrid Scobie, ex oficio
1998    Kendall Brown, Lolita Guiterrez Brockington, Thomas Holloway, Thomas Leonard
1997    Judith Ewell, Kendall Brown, Elizabeth A. Kuznesof,  Ingrid Scobie, ex oficio
1996    Ingrid Scobie, Katherine Burns, Teresa Meade, Roger Davis
1995    Jeremy Adelman, Katherine Burns, Teresa Meade
1994    Ingrid Scobie, Reid Andrews, Jeremy Adelman
1993    Reid Andrews, Edith Couturier, Ingrid Scobie
1992    Susan Alchon, Ingrid Scobie, Reid Andrews
1991    Lowell Gudmundson, Susan Austin Alchon, Ingrid Scobie
1990    Lowell Gudmundson, Susan Schroeder, Susan Austin Alchon, Ingrid Scobie,
1989    Thomas M. Davies Jr., Susan Schroeder
1988    Thomas M. Davies Jr., Ingrid W. Scobie, Susan Schroeder
1987    Thomas M. Davies Jr., Ingrid W. Scobie, William Fleming
1986    Anani Dzidzienyo, Ingrid Scobie, William Fleming, Thomas Davies Jr.
1985    Anani Dzidzienyo, Ingrid Scobie, William Fleming
1984    Brian Loveman, Anani Dzidzienyo, Ingrid Scobie
1983    John Lombardi, Brian Loveman, David Ringrose, Ingrid Scobie
1982    David Rigrose, John Lombardi, Brian Loveman, Ingrid W. Scobie

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