Inter-American Notes

Awards, Fellowships, & Prizes

2001 C. L. A. H. Awards and Prizes

The Conference on Latin American History announced the winners of its annual awards and prizes at the annual luncheon on January 4, 2002 in San Francisco.

The Bolton-Johnson Prize:

Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (University of Pennsylvania) for her book Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000).

The Tibesar Prize:

Kris E. Lane (College of William & Mary) for "Captivity and Redemption: Aspects of Slave Life in Early Colonial Quito and Popayá," The Americas 57:2 (October 2000): 225-46; and Bianca Premo (Emory University) for "From the Pockets of Women: Gendering the Mita, Migration and Tribute in Colonial Chucuito, Peru," The Americas 57:1 (July 2000): 36-93.

The Howard Francis Cline Memorial Prize:

Dorothy Tanck de Estrada (El Colegio de México) for Pueblos de Indios y Educación en el México Colonial, 1750-1821(Mexico: El Colegio de México, 1999).

Honorable Mention: Greg Grandin (Duke University) for The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Durham:Duke University Press, 2000).

The Conference on Latin American History Prize:

Linda K. Salvucci (Trinity University) and Richard Salvucci (Trinity University) for "Cuba and the Latin American Terms of Trade: Old Theories, New Evidence" Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31:2 (2000): 197-222.

Honorable Mention: Joan Bak (University of Richmond) for "Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in Brazil: The Negotiation of Workers' Identities in Porto Alegre's 1906 Strike" Latin American Research Review 35:3 (2000): 83-123.

Distinguished Service Award:

Michael C. Meyer (Emeritus, University of Arizona)

The James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize:

William Schell, Jr. (Murray State University) for "Silver Symbiosis: Re-Orienting Mexican Economic History" HAHR 81:1 (February 2001): 89-133.

Honorable Mention: John Soluri (Carnegie Mellon University) for "People, Plants, and Pathogens: The Eco-social Dynamics of Export Banana Production in Honduras, 1875-1950" HAHR 80:3 (August 2000): 463-501.

The James R. Scobie Memorial Award:

Christopher L. Murchison (University of Miami) for research entitled "Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon: A Historical Analysis of How International Forces Have Shaped Manaus, 1915-1985."

The Lydia Cabrera Awards:

Maria Elena Diaz (Merrill College) for her research project: "Slave Emancipation and the Changing Meanings of Freedom in Cuba and Spain, 1780-1810."

Charlotte Cosner (Florida International University) for her research project: "Rich and Poor, Black and White, Slave and Free: A Social History of Cuba's Tobacco Farmers, 1763-1817."

William Van Norman (University of North Carolina) for his research project: "Shade Grown Slavery: Life on a Coffee Plantation in Western Cuba, 1790-1845."

The Warren Dean Memorial Prize:

Roderick J. Barman (University of British Columbia) Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-91 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).

Honorable Mention: Judy Bieber (University of New Mexico) Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999).

The Lewis Hanke Prize:

Mark Healy (New York University) Research Project: "Memories of Catastrophe: Rebuilding Lives after the 1944 Earthquake in San Juan, Argentina"

The Franklin Pease Prize:

José Gregorio Cayuela Fernández (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)

Mariano Esteban de Vega (Universidad de Salamanca)

Honorable Mention: Karen Graubart (Cornell University)

Our congratulations to all!