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PRIZE AND AWARD DESCRIPTIONS
These prizes and awards are offered
through CLAH. Please keep these awards in mind for either submitting
work or making donations.
BOLTON-JOHNSON PRIZE
The Bolton prize was established in 1956. It was enhanced in 2000 by a generous donation from Dr. John J. Johnson and is now the Bolton-Johnson Prize. It carries a stipend of $1,000. The Bolton-Johnson Prize is awarded for the best book in English on any significant aspect of Latin American History that is published anywhere during the imprint year previous to the year of the award. Sound scholarship, grace of style, and importance of the scholarly contribution are among the criteria for the award. Normally not considered for the award are translations, anthologies of selections by several authors, reprints or re-editions or works published previously, and works not primarily historiographical in aim or content. An Honorable Mention Award may be made for an additional distinguished work deemed worthy by the Bolton-Johnson Prize Committee. It carries a stipend of $200.
- To be considered for the Bolton-Johnson Prize, a book must bear the imprint of the year prior to the year for which the award is made. Hence, for the 2009 Bolton-Johnson Prize, to be awarded in January of 2010, the Bolton-Johnson Prize Committee will review and judge books with imprint year 2008.
- The CLAH Secretariat will invite publishers to nominate books for prize consideration. Submission procedures are available on the CLAH website: CLAH members may also nominate books. For a book to be considered, each of the three committee members must receive a copy, either from the publisher or from another source. Books received after June 1 of the award year will not be considered. The secretariat should be informed of the committee's decision no later than October 15.
- Authors are advised to consult their publishers to be certain their books have been nominated and copies sent.
- The Bolton-Johnson Prize Committee is under no obligation to identify or seek out potential books for consideration.
Bolton-Johnson Prize Committee for 2009:
Chair: Susan Ramirez, Department of History, Texas Christian University, 2800 S. University Drive, TCU Box 297260, Fort Worth, TX 76129
Jurgen Buchenau, Department of History, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223
Marshall Eakin, Box 31-B, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235
Deadline for receipt of nominations: June 1, 2009
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HOWARD FRANCIS CLINE MEMORIAL PRIZE
This prize was established in 1976. It carries a stipend of $500. The Howard Francis Cline Memorial Prize is awarded biennially to the book or article in English, German, or a Romance language judged to make the most significant contribution to the history of Indians in Latin America, referring to any time before the immediate present. Items appearing in the two calendar years just preceding may be considered for a given year's award. Hence, items published in 2007 and 2008 will be considered for the award year 2009 (awarded at the meetings in January 2010).
The Cline Prize Committee will consider only those items nominated by CLAH members or by publishers. Publishers must provide copies of items nominated to all committee members. Members of the prize committee may include any items they feel appropriate in the list of works considered.
Cline Prize Committee for 2009:
Chair: Robert Haskett, Department of History / 1288, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1288
Cecilia Mendez, Department of History, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410
Brooke Larson, Department of History, SUNY Stony Brook, 3rd Floor, Social and Behavioral Sciences Building, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4348
Deadline for receipt of nominations: June 1, 2009
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DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
$500 is awarded each year to a Conference member whose career in scholarship, teaching, publishing, librarianship, institutional development, or other fields evidences significant contributions to the advancement of the study of Latin American History in the United States.
The Conference on Latin American History Award for Distinguished Service to the profession was established in 1969 by the General Committee and approved in 1971. The following guidelines are based upon the relevant CLAH By-Laws. Requirements of the Award: 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.
Administration of the Award:
1. The award shall be made annually.
2. Nominations for the award may be made by any member of the Conference and forwarded to the Distinguished Service Committee by June 1 of each year.
3. The Distinguished Service Committee shall present its recommendation to the Secretariat and the President of CLAH.
4. The award shall be in the form of a plaque suitably designed and inscribed and with a stipend of $500 for presentation on the occasion of the Annual Conference meeting in January following the award year.
5. The Secretariat should be informed of the committee's nomination by October 15, 2009.
Distinguished Service Award Committee for 2009:
Chair: John Coatsworth, jhc2125@colombia.edu
Asuncion Lavrin, lavrind@aol.com
Stuart Schwartz, stuart.schwartz@yale.edu
Deadline for receipt of nominations: June 1, 2009
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JAMES R. SCOBIE MEMORIAL AWARD FOR PRELIMINARY PH.D. RESEARCH
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.
Up to five travel grants will be awarded each year. The funds are to be used only for international travel expenses and may not exceed $1,500. The grant must be used during the summer following the award, unless there is prior approval from the Award Committee and the Secretariat of the Conference on Latin American History. Under no circumstances is the award to be combined with a research grant for an extended stay. Scobie awards may be used in combination with other funds as long as they are not for international travel. The final report should indicate sources and amounts of all awards received.
Submission procedures will be available on the CLAH website. All applications are to be mailed to each of the committee members, must be postmarked no later than April 3, 2009, and must include:
- a prospectus of proposed research, no longer than 1500 words and a preliminary
bibliography.
- a tentative research schedule for the grant period.
- a current curriculum vitae, with a notation of date of comprehensive exam.
- two letters of recommendation, one of which should attest to the language
competence (Spanish or Portuguese) of the applicant. Applicants without two
letters postmarked by April 3 will not be considered).
The Awards Committee will send its final recommendation to the Secretariat by April 26, 2009. At the end of the grant period, each award recipient must submit a final report to the CLAH Secretariat outlining what was accomplished.
Scobie Award Committee for 2009:
Chair: Kristin Ruggiero, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
P.O. Box 413, Holton Hall, 342 Milwaukee, WI 53201
Mollie Lewis, Department of History, University of South Alabama, HUMB 344, Mobile, Alabama 36688
Seth Garfield, University of Texas at Austin, Department of History, Garrison 101/B7000, Austin, TX, 78712
Deadline to apply: April 3, 2009.
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LYDIA CABRERA AWARDS FOR CUBAN HISTORICAL STUDIES
Lydia Cabrera Awards 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.
Applicants must be trained in Latin American history and possess knowledge of Spanish. Successful applicants will be expected to disseminate the results of their research in scholarly publications and/or professional papers delivered at scholarly conferences and public lectures at educational institutions.
Applicants for original research are to be currently engaged in graduate studies at a U. S. institution or be affiliated with a college/university faculty or accredited historical association in the United States. Each applicant should provide a two-page curriculum vita, a detailed itinerary and a budget statement, a three-page narrative description of the proposed project, and three letters of support. Republication proposals should include letter(s) of intent from a publisher. The deadline to apply for the 2009 award is June 1, 2009. The Secretariat should be informed of the committee's decision no later than October 15, 2009.
A limited number of awards will be made annually up to a maximum of $5,000. A copy of the application materials should be sent to each of the Lydia Cabrera Awards committee members.
Cabrera Prize Committee for 2009:
Chair: Jane Landers, jane.landers@vanderbilt.edu, Department of History, VU Station B#351802, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235-1802
Maria Elena Diaz, mediaz@ucsc.edu, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz, 201 Humanities, 11156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Christopher Schmidt Nowara, schmidtnowar@fordham.edu, Department of History, Fordham University, 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY 10023
Deadline to apply: June 1, 2009
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WARREN DEAN MEMORIAL PRIZE
The prize was established in 1995. It carries a stipend of $500. Originally planned to recognize scholarly achievement in either environmental history or the history of Brazil (in alternating years), in January 2004 the CLAH General Committee changed its terms to recognize works on the history of Brazil, to be awarded biennially. The Warren Dean Memorial Prize recognizes the book or article judged to be the most significant work on the history of Brazil published in English during the two years prior to the award year. Publications by scholars other than historians will be considered as long as the work has substantial historical content.
Comparative works (e. g. on Brazil and another country) will be eligible as long as they include a substantial amount of material on Brazil/Latin America. For a book to be considered, each of the three committee members must receive a copy by June 1, 2009, either from the publisher or from another source. Items published in 2007 and 2008 will be considered for the award year 2009 (to be awarded at the meetings in January 2010). Detailed submission procedures will be available on this website.
Dean Prize Committee for 2009:
Chair: Teresa Meade, Department of History, Union College, 807 Union Street, Schenectady, NY 12308
Kirsten Schultz, Department of History, Seton Hall University, 400 South Orange Avenue, South Orange, NJ 07079
Jeffrey Needell, Department of History, PO Box 117320, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Deadline for receipt of nominations: June 1, 2009
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LEWIS HANKE PRIZE
The Lewis Hanke Award carries a stipend of up to $1,000, to be used only for international travel. This award was created through generous donations from students, colleagues, and family members of the late Lewis Hanke. It will be given annually to a recent Ph.D. recipient in order to conduct field research that will allow transformation of the dissertation into a book. Applicants must have completed their Ph.D. degrees in the field of Latin American history no more than four years prior to the closing date of the application. The award will be made by a committee appointed by the CLAH president.
Applicants must submit to each committee member a copy of the following documents: a 1000-word proposal, a dissertation abstract, a brief CV, and a proposed budget Applications must be postmarked by June 1 of the award year. The Secretariat should be informed of the committee’s decision no later than October 15, 2009.
Hanke Prize Committee for 2009:
Chair: David Sheinin, History Department, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8, Canada
Nils Jacobsen, Department of History, University of Illinois, 309 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801
Michelle Reid, mbreid@gsu.edu, Department of History, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 4117 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4117
Deadline to apply: June 1, 2009
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ELINOR MELVILLE PRIZE FOR LATIN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY:
The Melville prize was established in 2007 through a bequest from Elinor Kerr Melville. It carries a stipend of $500. The Melville prize is awarded for the best book in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese on Latin American Environmental History that is published anywhere during the imprint year previous to the year of the award. Melville defined environmental history as “the study of the mutual influences of social and natural processes.” The prize will go to the book that best fits that definition, while also considering sound scholarship, grace of style, and importance of the scholarly contribution as criteria for the award. Normally not considered for the award are reprints or re-editions of works published previously, and works not primarily historical in aim or content. More general works of environmental history with significant Latin American content may also be considered.
- To be considered for the Melville Prize, a book must bear the imprint of the year prior to the year for which the award is made. Hence, for the 2009 Melville Prize, to be awarded in January of 2010, the Melville Prize Committee will review and judge books with imprint year 2008.
- The CLAH Secretariat will invite publishers to nominate books for prize consideration. CLAH members, including members of the selection committee, may also nominate books, and authors who are not CLAH members may nominate their own books. For a book to be considered, each of the three committee members must receive a copy, either from the publisher or from another source. Books received after June 1 of the award year will not be considered. The Secretariat should be informed of the committee's decision no later than October 14, 2009.
- Authors are advised to consult their publishers to be certain their books have been nominated and a copy sent to each member of the Review Committee.
Melville Prize Committee Members for 2009:
Chair: Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Department of History, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
Susan Deeds, Department of History / Liberal Arts 219, Box 6023, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Gregory Cushman, University of Kansas, Dept. of History, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 3650, Lawrence, KS 66045
Deadline for receipt of nominations: June 1, 2009.
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MEXICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE
$500 is awarded annually for the book or article judged to be the most
significant work on the history of Mexico published during the previous
year. The prize was established in 2009.
The award will be governed by the following rules.
- 1. The CLAH Book Prize in Mexican History will be awarded annually to an outstanding book on Mexican history published in English or Spanish in the calendar year prior to the year in which the award committee makes its decision. Thus, the committee convened in 2009 will consider books bearing a copyright of 2008, with the award to be made at the 2010 annual meeting. The prize committee, at its discretion, may determine that no book merits an award for a given calendar year.
- 2. Books eligible for the award must focus primarily on the history of Mexico. Geographically, the term "Mexico" refers to the territory that came to be known as New Spain prior to 1821, Greater Mexico from 1821 to 1848, the and region within current national boundaries thereafter. The prize committee may consider books about the borderlands of these territories, if it so chooses.
- 3. Books must be nominated for the award by a member of the CLAH or a publisher. The author need not be a member of the CLAH for the book to be nominated, but must become a member of the CLAH before accepting the award.
- 4. The president of the CLAH will name a prize committee each year, comprised of three experts on Mexican history. The president is encouraged to name the most recent past winner of the Book Prize as a member of the prize committee.
- 5. Authors are advised to consult their publishers to be certain their books have been nominated and a copy sent to each member of the Review Committee.
Mexican History Prize Committee Members for 2009:
(The
Mexican
History
Book Prize was approved by the CLAH General Committee in January, 2009, and has
been endowed through the generous support of CLAH members in a capital campaign
completed by Mexican Studies Committee Chair Chris Boyer. This is the first call for nominations for
this prize, which will be awarded at the San Diego meeting in 2010.)
Chair: Margaret Chowning, University of California at Berkeley, 3229 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2550
Dr. Guillermo Palacios, Director - Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México, A.C., Camino al Ajusco 20 - Pedregal de Santa Teresa, México, D.F., 10740
Rebecca Horn, University of Utah, Department of History, 215 S. Central Campus Dr. Rm 310, Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
Deadline for receipt of nominations: June 1, 2009
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CONFERENCE
ON LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY PRIZE
This prize was established in 1961. It carries a stipend of $500.
The Conference on Latin American History Prize is awarded annually for a distinguished article on any significant aspect of Latin American history by a member of the CLAH, not appearing in the Hispanic American Historical Review or The Americas. The committee will consider nominated and self-nominated articles in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. To be eligible for the prize, authors must be members of the CLAH during the year the article is published and the year that it is considered for the award.
The committee will review only those articles published in the year preceding the award. Thus articles published in 2008 will be considered for the 2009 award to be presented at the conference in January 2010. For an article to be considered, each of the three committee members must receive a copy by mail by June 1, 2009. The Secretariat should be informed of the committee's decision no later than October 15, 2009.
Conference Prize Committee for 2009:
Chair: Jocelyn Olcott, Department of History, Duke University, PO Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Jordana Dym, Tisch Learning Center 326, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866
Alejandro Caneque, Department of History, University of Maryland, 2101M Francis Scott Key, College Park, MD 20742
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PRIZES
FOR WHICH NO NOMINATIONS ARE NECESSARY:
JAMES
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON MEMORIAL PRIZE
Established in 1953, this prize carries a $500 cash stipend. Originally, it was established to improve the quality of articles in the HAHR as, in addition to the cash award, the winning article was to be published in the HAHR. In 1957 its terms were changed to provide an award for an article already published. However, the provision that unpublished articles might also be considered was retained.
The James Alexander Robertson Prize is awarded annually for an article appearing (during the year preceding the award) in one of the four consecutive issues of the Hispanic American Historical Review. (August 2008-May 2009 for the 2009 award, awarded at the conference in January, 2010)The article selected for the award is to be one that, in the judgment of the prize committee, makes an outstanding contribution to Latin American historical literature. An Honorable Mention Award (with no cash stipend) may be made for an additional distinguished article deemed worthy of the same by the Robertson Prize Committee.
The Secretariat should be informed of the committee's decision no later than October 15, 2009.
Robertson Prize Committee for 2009:
Chair: Sarah Chambers (University of Minnesota)
Heather Abdelnur (Augusta State University)
Eileen Findlay (American University)
TIBESAR
PRIZE
The Conference on Latin American History in cooperation with The Americas established the Tibesar Prize in December 1990. It carries a stipend of $500.
A Tibesar Prize Committee, annually named by the president of the Conference on Latin American History, will designate the most distinguished article published by The Americas for the volume year (July-April), which ends in the year before the award is announced.
Hence, for the 2009 Tibesar Prize to be awarded in January of 2010, the Tibesar Prize Committee will review and judge articles in the July 2008 - April 2009 volume year. The Secretariat will be informed of the committee's decision no later than October 15, 2009.
The Tibesar Prize Committee is charged with selecting that article which best combines distinguished scholarship, original research and/or thought, and grace of writing style.
Tibesar Prize Committee for 2009:
Chair: Karen Graubart (University of Notre Dame)
Mark Healy (University of California at Berkeley)
Matt O’Hara (University of California at Santa Cruz)
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