Inter-American Notes

Awards, Fellowships, & Prizes
2002 Guggenheim Awards

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the winners of its 2002 Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation. Among the winners whose projects might be of interest to our readers are:

Eduardo M. Basualdo, Independent Researcher, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET); Coordinator of Economics and Technology, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Buenos Aires: The evolution, characteristics, and impact of Argentine external debt between 1970 and 2000.

José Bengoa, Professor of Anthropology, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Santiago, Chile: History of Mapuche society in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Richard Cooke, Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama: Life and death at a Precolumbian settlement in Panama.

Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, Research Professor and Director, Archival History of Water Project, Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City: Huastecan pueblos, 1750-1856.

Mario García Joya, Cinematographer, Pasadena, California: The management and development of cinema in Cuba, 1960-2000.

Andrea Giunta, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Buenos Aires; Associate Researcher, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET): The problem of the representation of violence in art.

Jeffrey L. Gould, Professor of History and Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington: Rebellion, repression, and memory in El Salvador.

Stephen D. Houston, Jesse Knight University Professor, Brigham Young University: Experience and being among the classic Maya.

Laura A. Lewis, Associate Professor of Anthropology, James Madison University: Narratives of history, race, and place in the making of black Mexico.

Maria Emma Mannarelli, Assistant Professor of History and Director, Gender Studies Program, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima: Writing, sexuality, and the process of secularization in Peru, 1895-1930.

Carmen McEvoy, Associate Professor of History, University of the South: War and the national imagination in Chile, 1869-1884.

María Moreno, Writer, Buenos Aires; Editor, "Supplemento Las 12", Pagina 12, Buenos Aires: The Left, society, and sexuality in Argentine political culture.

Federico Neiburg, Professor of Social Anthropology, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro: The social construction of a culture of economics in Argentina, 1950-2000.

Hermann M. Niemeyer, Professor of Chemical Ecology, University of Chile: Chemoecological studies involving aphids and lizards.

Isabel Parra, Independent Artist, Santiago, Chile; President, Violeta Parra Foundation, Santiago: An anthology of exile.

Ana Irene Pizarro Romero, Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Santiago, Chile: Cultural design in the Amazon.

Ricardo Pozas Horcasitas, Research Professor, Institute of Social Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM): The Sixties in Latin America.

Juan Carlos Rulfo, Film Maker, Mexico City; Administrative and Creative Manager, La Media Productions, Mexico City: Film making.

The complete list is available online at http://www.gf.org/newfellow.html.

Our congratulations to all!

The Editors

The Bill and Rita Clements Research Fellowships for the Study of Southwestern America

The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies in the Department of History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas welcomes applications for three research fellowships, known as The Bill and Rita Clements Research Fellowships for the Study of Southwestern America. Individuals in any field in the humanities or social sciences doing research on Southwestern America are invited to apply. The fellowships are designed to provide time for senior or junior scholars to bring book-length manuscripts to completion.

Fellows will be expected to spend the 2003-2004 academic year at SMU and to participate in Clements Center activities. Each fellow will receive the support of the Center and access to the extraordinary holdings of the DeGolyer Library. Fellowships carry a stipend of $37,000, health benefits, a $2,000 allowance for research and travel expenses, and a publication subvention. Fellows have the option of teaching one course during the two-semester duration of the fellowship for an additional stipend.

Applicants should send a copy of their vita, a description of their research project, and a sample chapter or extract (if the sample is from a dissertation, please include the introduction), and arrange to have letters of reference sent from three...