ANNOUNCEMENTS

Tulane University seeks applications from distinguished historians of colonial New Spain for the France V. Scholes Chair. The successful candidate will have proven scholarship in Latin American colonial history and experience in directing graduate students. Preference is for a historian of colonial Mexico, especially ethnohistory, although those with experience in other areas of colonial Latin America who wish now to focus on colonial Mexico will also be considered. Salary and benefits are competitive in accordance with qualifications. Please send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and the names of three references to Dr. Ralph Lee Woodward, Chair, Search Committee, France V. Scholes Chair, Department of History, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118. Review of applications will begin on September 15, 1998, and continue until the position is filled. For further information, please contact Dr. Woodward at the above address, or by e-mail at woodward@datasync.com, or by telephone at (228) 467-2124 or (504) 862-8616. Tulane University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) announces its tenth international research conference, to be held at Princeton University 14-15 March 1999. The conference will explore historical, sociological, cultural, and literary issues/themes related to the topic: "Migration, Borders & Displacement: The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America." It begins Sunday 14 March at 9 a.m. and continues until 3:30 p.m. on Monday 15 March. A welcoming reception will be held on Sunday 14 March at 7 p.m. To stimulate provocative scholarly debate on a central topic linked to the colonial as well as to the modern period, LAJSA aims for a high quality, coherent program in which the Conference's theme will reflect studies on the history, problematics and realities of living within two countries. Presentations may focus upon immigration, multiculturality, historical events and conflicts, sociological and anthropological views, literary expression of nationality, ethnicity, identity, and anti-semitism, comparative views, exile and alienation, or other pertinent subjects. The Conference's theme and concept build upon a meeting at Harvard University of 7 March 1997 entitled "Latin American Jewish Studies Symposium: Voices, Histories and Approaches." That conference featured papers and debates by distinguished scholars and served as a forum for discussing such topics as cultural memory, Jews and Nazis in Chile and Bolivia, Jewish Writing and Identity, and the Jews of Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina.

Proposals for papers or panels will be reviewed by the Program Committee, which is chaired by professor David Sheinin of Trent University (Petersborough, Ontario). Four copies of the

appropriate proposal form and supplemental materials must be received by Thursday 7 January 1999 at the LAJSA '99 office at Princeton (address below).

Limited funds are available for partial conference travel fellowships, with preference for scholars at the dissertation stage, post-doctoral fellows, unaffiliated recent Ph.D.s, or assistant professors. To be considered for a travel fellowship, scholars must submit to the LAJSA '99 office at Princeton for receipt by Monday 2 November 1998: (1) four copies of a letter of request describing the applicant's current position, estimated travel costs, and other sources of conference funding applied for and expected notification dates, (2) four copies of a completed 15-20 page paper that neither has been published nor previously presented at a conference, and (3) four copies of the paper proposal form. Dissertation writers also must include a brief discussion of their dissertation topic and research progress to date. Award notifications will be sent in January. Small travel grants may also be available to advanced graduate students who wish to attend the conference but not present. To be considered, send two copies of a letter of request to the LAJSA '99 office for receipt by 2 November that includes your year in graduate school, whether you have completed comprehensive examinations, your approximate travel costs, other sources of travel funding and expected decision dates, and a paragraph describing your dissertation plans and research progress to date. Proposals for a paper and/or panel, as well as conference travel fellowship requests are to be sent to:

PLAS-LAJSA '99

Princeton University

Joseph Henry House

Princeton, NJ 08544-1019

Fax No. (609) 258-0113 (Note: The required number of printed copies also must be sent by mail or courier.) E mail: lajsa99@princeton.edu

Downloadable proposal forms, as well as updated information about the conference, are available on the conference's web site at: http://www.princeton.edu/plasweb/lajsa99.html

The University of Southwestern Louisiana invites applications for a two-year fellowship with $12,000 stipend per year plus tuition remission (and most fees) to pursue a Master's degree in

European, American, Latin American, or Public History, to begin in January, June, or August 1999. A Fellow must be a U.S. citizen or resident alien with a Bachelor's degree and a minimum undergraduate grade point average of 3.0 and 1200 GRE score (Verbal plus Analytical).

Review of applications will begin November 15, 1998 and continue until the Fellowship is awarded. Send cover letter, transcripts, GRE score, resume, and a statement of academic and research interests to Prof. Judith Gentry, History Dept., University of Southwestern Louisiana,

Lafayette, LA 70504-2531. Have three letters of reference sent directly. Applications from minorities and women are encouraged. Inquiries to JFGentry@ucs.usl.edu

The second MA Fellowship (with a Public History major) will not be formally announced until later and will not begin before August 1999. Of course, other students can apply for our regular teaching assistantships which carry stipends of $5000 plus tuition per year. The teaching

assistants are expected to assist in the teaching of classes. Thanks for the help and let your better undergraduates know of this. Tom Schoonover

TAm Judith Ewell, Newton Professor of History at The College of William and Mary, has just assumed the position of editor of The AMericas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History. She would like to encourage scholars to submit their work for consideration for

publication in TAm, which publishes broadly on all Latin American historical topics and areas. The Editorial Board is especially interested in receiving articles on comparative or interdisciplinary topics and suggestions for special thematic or historiographical issues. Ewell would welcome any inquiries about work in progress or proposals to guest edit a thematic issue or any general suggestions about the journal. TAm has been publishing articles of interest to

Latin Americanists since the 1940s and is proud to be going into the next millennium as one of the major English-language journals on Latin American history. You may contact Ewell at her e-mail address of jxewel@facstaff.wm.edu or through the editorial office of the journal. Editorial address for The AMericas is:

The Americas

B-17 Gibbons Hall

The Catholic University of America

Washington, DC 20064

Tel: 202-319-5890

Oaxaca Graduate Field School in Mexican History This field school is a month-long seminar on Modern Mexico for graduate students from Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. It will be held in Oaxaca City from June 20 to July 17, 1999 (tentative dates). The

seminar is a course jointly taught by Alan Knight, Gil Joseph, John Hart and Bill Beezley. Other Mexican and international scholars will present guest lectures. For additional information, write William H. Beezley, Department of History, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.

The Association of Third World Studies will hold its 17th annual meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica November 18-20, 1999. University of Costa Rica will host it. Theme: "Interdisciplinary approaches to Third World Studies." Scope: Papers and panels from all academic disciplines that deal with the study of Africa, Latin America, Near and Middle East, and Asia (except Japan) are welcome. Interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged. Persons interested in presenting papers or panels must submit a 200 word proposal abstract. Persons interested in serving as chair and/or commentator must submit a brief statement on their area of expertise.

Submission Deadline: April 1, 1999

Proposals from Central and South America to:

Mercedes Muñoz Guillén

Directora, Escuela de Historia

Facultad de Ciencias Sociales

Universidad de Costa Rica

San José, Costa Rica

FAX 506-207-4695

Email: cariari.ucr.ac.cr.mercedes

All other proposals to:

Tom Leonard

International Studies Program

College of Arts and Sciences

University of North Florida

Jacksonville, Florida 32224

FAX: 904-620-1018

Email: tleonard@unf.edu

The University of Wisconsin Press announces the inauguration of a new series of books on Latin America, co-edited by Robert M. Levine (History, University of Miami) and Jane Collins (Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin). The editors are looking for books that appeal to broad audiences and that present insight into the lives of Latin Americans. Books will be published simultaneously in paperback and handcover and can be in any subject field. Proposals, or requests for further information, should be sent to Jane Collins at jcollins@ssc.wisc.edu or Robert M. Levine at rlevine@miami.edu.

Bolivian Frontier

A limited number of copies of the Historia de Tarija (Corpus Documental), tomo VI, by Catherine Julien, Kristina Angelis and Zulema Bass-Werner de Ruiz, are available from Catherine Julien. The book contains a very broad selection of previously unpublished documents on the Bolivian frontier in the 16th century (1540-1598), selected from archives in Bolivia and Spain

(xl; 443 pp; indices). Especially noteworthy are the many early land grants (40+) from the years 1574-1591 and documents related to campaigns against the Chiriguand from Tarija. Volumes I-IV in the series were authored by Cristina Minutolo de Orsi and are devoted to the 19th century.

Volume V was coauthored by Erick Langer and Zulema Bass-Werner de Ruiz and also concerns the 19th century. Volumes I and II are no longer in print. The cost of volume VI is $25, including mailing. Orders from university libraries will be given preference. When the number of copies on hand are exhausted, it may be possible to fill additional orders next year, and possibly, orders for volumes III-V. Please communicate with Catherine Julien at julien@wmich.edu or to her address at the Department of History, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008; (616) 387-4632 (office) or (616) 387-3999 (fax).

The CLAH Teaching Committee will meet at the AHA on Friday, Jan. 8, from 7:30 to 9:15 a.m. in the Marriott, Calvert Room. Half of the meeting will be devoted to Teaching Committee business, including making plans for next year's AHA, columns in the CLAH newsletter, and CLAH web links. The meeting will also host a presentation by Jeffrey Lesser of Connecticut College on "New Technology, Old History: A Preview of the MESOLORE CDRom," in line with our ongoing discussion of technology in the classroom. MESOLORE, a CDRom

produced by Liza Bakewell and Byron Hamman, examines Mixtec codices and teaches students how to intrepret them. MESOLORE is still in beta version and is being used for the first time in the classroom by Jeffrey Lesser, in his Connecticut College Seminar on "Mexico and Brazil in Comparative Historical Perspective." Professor Lesser will preview the CD Rom to the CLAH Teaching committee and lead a short discussion on its applicability for different types of history courses. The Teaching Committee Meeting is open to all interested people--please join us!

American Indian Quarterly, an established, interdisciplinary, refereed journal has recently moved its headquarters to Northern Arizona University and has expanded its scope to include indigenous peoples of Latin America. The Quarterly is now accepting article-length manuscripts (30 pages) and review essays from Latin Americanists. It especially welcomes comparative works and those that focus on themes of shared concern to scholars studying native peoples across the Americas. Please send queries and submissions to:

Dr. Karen Vieira Powers, Latin American Editor

American Indian Quarterly

Department of History, Box 6023

Flagstaff, AZ 86011

Tele: (520) 523-9530

Fax: (520) 523-1277

E-mail: AIQUARTERLY@NAU.EDU

To Contributors of the ELAHC:

I have some good news. We are now in our fifth printing and have sold at least 6,500 copies! That's more than the Encyclopedia of American Social History! I am currently in the process of approving articles for a "junior version" of our ELAHC especially written for middle and high school students. It has been a real pleasure to reread some of your articles after a period of time and recognize what superb contributions they are. None of the articles will be credited to the original authors since the company that is producing the new set has figured out the words to the

last letter. If you have a problem with that, please contact me at bten@loc.gov. On another matter, those of you who wrote biographies of living people, if they have died since your article has been approved, please use the email address above to send me the appropriate information.

Remember that Scribner's likes precision, so Feb 24 if preferable to Feb. Thanks to all of you; I look forward to seeing you at the AHA in January.

Barbara Tenenbaum,

Hispanic Division,

Library of Congress

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