AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND HONORS
ALBRO, WARD S
. (Texas A&M University-Kingsville), Named Professor Emeritus of History at Texas A&M University-Kingsville by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents; his book, To Die on Your Feet: The Life, Times, and Writings of Práxedis G. Guerrero won the Harvey Johnson award for best book given annually by the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies.BANTJES, ANDRIAN
(University of Wyoming), American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council International Postdoctoral Fellowship for 1998-99; Fellowship, Center for U. S.- Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, for Spring 1999.BEATTIE, PETER M.
(Michigan State University), Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship for Research and Teaching at the Universidade de São Paulo; Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in research, teaching, and contribution to Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.BECKER, MARC
(Gettysburg College), Honorable mention in the competition for the inaugural CLAH Lewis Hanke Prize for the proposal "Indian Movements and the Left in Twentieth-Century Ecuador."BECKER, MARJORIE
(University of Southern California), Research Award for "Race Matters: From Malinche to Cornel West."BORGES, DAIN
(University of California--San Diego), Area Editor, Editorial Board, The Americas, July 1998-July 2002; President, Brazilian Studies Association, 1997-99.BROMSEN, MAURY A.
(Brown University), Honorary Curator and Bibliographer of Latin Americana at the John Carter Brown Library; listed in Who's Who in America (the last 12 editions) and Who's Who in the World (all editions). Maury A. Bromsen has been a collector and dealer in colonial Spanish American materials for fifty years. Few people alive are more broadly knowledgeable about the bibliographical literature surrounding Latin Americana than he. He has been decorated by the Chilean Government with its highest award, Knight Commander of the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins; also honored by the Venezuelan Government with its highest award, the Order of Francisco Miranda, First Class, an honor generally reserved for chiefs of state.BUCHENAU, JURGEN
(University of Southern Mississippi), Received Summer Research Award from University of Southern Mississippi.CANE, JAMES
(University of California--Berkeley), Mellon Foundation Dissertation Grant, 1997; Fulbright IIE (Buenos Aires, Argentina), August 1996-May, 1998; Sonne Chairholder Fellowship, August 1996-May, 1997--UC, Berkeley; Chancellor Fellowship, May 1995-August 1995--UC, Berkeley; Mellon Foundation Dissertation Prospectus Grant (Buenos Aires, Argentina), August 1994-June 1996; Tinker Foundation Travel Grant (Buenos Aires, Argentina; Havana, Cuba.)CANIZARES ESGUERRA, JORGE
(Illinois State University), Outstanding University Research Initiative Award, 1997-1998; National Endowment Fellow to the John Carter Brown Library (August 97-January 98); Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (January 98-August 98); Participant in the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, August 10-21, 1998.CAREY, ELAINE
(University of New Mexico), 1996-97--USIA Fulbright, Roble García, Mexico; 1994-98--Travel Grant, Department of History, University of New Mexico.COOK, NOBLE DAVID
(Florida International University), American Council of Learned Societies, for research in Seville from August 1998 - August 1999, on Triana and America, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.CURCIO-NAGY, LINDA A
. (University of Nevada-Reno), Adelante Award for Service to the Northern Nevada Latino Community.DAWSON, ALEXANDER
(Montana State University), Research and Creativity Grant, MSU, 1998; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 1993-1995.DORN, GEORGETTE
(Hispanic Division, Library of Congress), Elected corresponding member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.FISHER, JOHN
(University of Liverpool, England), British Academy Research Grant for preparation of a "History of Bourbon Peru, 1700-1824" (IEP, 1999); incorporated as Honorary Member of Instituto Riva-Aguero, Lima, August 1998.FOWLER-SALAMINI, HEATHER
(Bradley University), Fulbright-Garcia Robles Senior Lecturer/ Research Grant (September 1998-February 1999) to teach graduate seminar on the Porfiriato at the Universidad Veracruzana and to conduct research on gender in Veracruz coffee production.FRANCIS, J. MICHAEL
(University of North Florida), Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada; Peterhouse Research Studentship, Cambridge, England; Overseas Research Studentship; Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction; Canadian Centennial Scholarship; Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Award; Joan Shore Memorial Scholarship in Graduate Studies.FRENCH, JOHN D.
(Duke University), Co-Director of a $75,000 grant received from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for a project entitled, "Documenting Inter-American Cooperation: The Frances Grant and Robert Alexander Papers Project" in cooperation with Special Collections and University Archives at the Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, New Jersey.GREEN, JAMES NAYLOR
(California State University, Long Beach) NEH Summer Institute "Crossroads of Atlantic Culture: Brazil at 500," Summer 1998; Sprague Award by the Committee on Gay and Lesbian History of the American Historical Association for best dissertation chapter, 1996-97.GUITAR, LYNNE
(Vanderbilt University), 13-month research fellowship to Dominican Republic (1997-98), Fulbright Foundation;First-place Award, 1997, Jay I. Kislak Student Prize in History.
HAHNER, JUNE E
. (State University of New York at Albany), Elected co- president of the Coordinating Council for Women in History.HALE, CHARLES A.
(University of Iowa), Honored at colloquium on liberalism (un homenaje) at El Colegio de México, October 1997.HANGER, KIMBERLY S
. (University of Tulsa), Book entitled Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803 (Duke University Press, 1997) awarded the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize for Excellence in Historical Scholarship by the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association.HUGHES, NADA B
. (University of Miami), Recipient of Fulbright Grant.KLOOSTER, WILLEM
(University of Southern Maine), Charles Warren Research Fellowship, Harvard University, 1997-98.LESSER, JEFFREY
(Connecticut College), Conference on Latin American History Tibesar Prize, Honorable Mention for "Re(Creating) Ethnicity: Middle Eastern Immigration to Brazil." The Americas 53:1 (July 1996): 45-65. 1997; Ford Foundation, "The New Face of Discrimination in Brazil," (with Koichi Mori, Centro de Estudos Nipo-Brasilieros, São Paulo.)LIZCANO FERNANDEZ, FRANCISCO
(Univ. Aut. Edo. Mexico), Ingresó al Sistema Nacional de Investigadores de México en julio de 1997 y, unos meses antes, recibió una NotaLaudatoria otorgada por la Univ. Aut. del Edo. de México.
MARTÍNEZ-FERNANDEZ, LUIS
(Rutgers University), Rutgers University Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence.MATHEWS-LAMB, SANDRA K.
(Nebraska Wesleyan University), Honorariums for presentations at: Headwaters VIII Conference (Gunnison, CO) and Water Crisis in Texas and the Southwest (San Antonio, TX - American Society for Environmental History).MÉNDEZ-GASTELUMENDI, CECILIA
(University of California, Santa Barbara), Post Doctoral Fellowship at the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.MORGAN, RONALD
(Biola University), Conferral of Ph.D. from University of Santa Barbara (July 1998).O'TOOLE, RACHEL S.
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Awarded a Mowry Graduate Research Award by the UNC-CH History Department and a Dissertation Fellowship by the UNC-CH Graduate School for research in Spanish archives; also awarded a Fulbright Scholarship (Peru) to pursue dissertation research in 1999 for her project, "Between Sea and Sierra: Meanings of Racial Difference in the Sugar Economy of Coastal Peru (1650s-1780s).PEARCY, THOMAS
(Slippery Rock University), 1998 Student Award for Teaching Excellence--Teacher of the Year, BYU History Department.PENRY, S. ELIZABETH
(Fordham University), Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R.I., September 1998-July 1999; Faculty Research Grant (Bolivia), Fordham University, August 1998.PINEO, RONN
(Towson University), Fulbright Lecturing/Research Award (1998), Ecuador; Towson University Faculty Excellence Award.POWER, MARGARET
(UIC), "Right-Wing Women and Chilean Politics 1964-1973" won the Outstanding Thesis award in Fine Arts and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Chicago, April 1998.POWERS, KAREN VIEIRA
(Northern Arizona University), Howard Cline Memorial Prize for Andean Journeys: Migration, Ethnogenesis and the State in Colonial Quito; Wenner-Gren Grant for archival research in Seville.RISTOW, COLBY NOLAN
(Michigan State University), University of Chicago Fellowship, beginning 1998; Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, MSU, 1997-98.SALOMON, FRANK
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), Received a John S. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for his project on the ethnography and history of khipus and other vernacular media in Huarochiri, Peru; also received a Resident Fellowship of the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he will work in academic 1998-99; was named llustre Huésped de la Cuidad de Quito, an honor granted by the capital of Ecuador in recognition of contributions to its historiography), July 11, 1997; honor was conferred by Ecuador's President-elect Jamil Mahuad Witt.STERN, STEVE J.
(University of Wisconsin), 1998 John Leddy Phelan Distinguished Service Award.STONER, K. LYNN
(Arizona State University), Rockefeller Fellow, Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University; Women's Studies Summer Travel Grant, Arizona State University.VAN DEUSEN, NANCY
(Western Washington University), Bureau for Faculty Research, Western Washington University, summer research grant, 1998.VANDERWOOD, PAUL
(San Diego State University), The Power of God Against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998) won the Thomas F. McGann Memorial Prize for Best Book.WEINSTEIN, BARBARA
(SUNY at Stony Brook), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for a study of Regionalism in São Paulo and the formation of Brazilian National Identities.YAREMKO, JASON M.
(University of Manitoba), February 1997: Nominated for the CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award; University of Manitoba Continuing Education Summer Session 1997 Innovation Fund, awarded January 1997-- awarded for design and development of an innovative, interdisciplinary, and/or community-oriented course or program; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, September 1994-September 1996; W. L. Morton Gold Medal for best M.A. in the field of History, May 1993; Manitoba Graduate Fellowship, August 1992-August 1994.