Inter-American Notes

Awards, Fellowships, & Prizes

Academy of American Franciscan History

The Academy of American Franciscan History is pleased to announce the following winners of its 2003-2004 dissertation fellowship competition:

Guillermo Antonio Nájera Nájera (El Colegio de México) for "Los franciscanos de las Provincias de México y Michoacán durante la época tridentina, 1572-1749"

José Refugio de la Torre Curiel (University of California, Berkeley) for "Conquering the Frontier: Contests for Religion, Survival, and Profits in Sonora, 1768-1845"

Each will receive $10,000 to assist in the completion of their dissertations, and the opportunity for publication by the Academy.

Applications for next year's fellowship competition are now being accepted. Up to four dissertation fellowships, each worth $10,000 will be awarded. Up to two fellowships will support projects dealing with some aspect of the history of the Franciscan Family in Latin America, including the United States Borderlands, Mexico, Central and South America. Up to another two will support research on some aspect of the history of the Franciscan Family in the rest of the United States and Canada.

The deadline for applications will be February 1, 2004. To apply and for further information, please address all materials to:

Dr. Jeffrey M. Burns, Director
Academy of American Franciscan History
1712 Euclid Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709-1208
acadafh@aol.com or acadafh@fst.edu

Conference on Latin American History

As announced at its luncheon on January 3, 2003 at the American Historical Association in Chicago, the Conference on Latin American History recognized the superb achievement of the following scholars for their work in 2002:

The Bolton-Johnson Prize (Best book in English on any significant aspect of Latin American History):

Eric Van Young, The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).

Honorable Mention: Kevin Terraciano, The Mixtecs of Colonial Mexico: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).

The Warren Dean Memorial Prize (Given in 2002 for the best work on environmental history):

Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Jorge Pérez-López, Conquering Nature: The Environmental Legacy of Socialism in Cuba (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2000).

The Tibesar Prize (Most distinguished article published in The Americas):

James D. Riley, "Public Works and Local Elites: The Politics of Taxation in Tlaxcala, 1780-1810," 58:3 (January 2002): 355-93.

Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Shumway, "'The Purity of my Blood Cannot Put Food on my Table': Changing Attitudes Towards Interracial Marriage in 19th Century Buenos Aires," Vol. 58:2 (October 2001): 201-220.

The James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize (Most distinguished article published in Hispanic American Historical Review):

Rick A. López, "The India Bonita Contest of 1921 and the Ethnicization of Mexican National Culture," 82:2 (May 2002): 291-328.

Honorable Mention: Erika Pani, "Dreaming of a Mexican Empire: The Political Projects of the Imperialists," 82:1 (February, 2002): 1-31.

The Conference on Latin American History Prize (Mostdistinguished article published other than in HAHR or The Americas):

Steve Marquardt, "Green Havoc?: Panama Disease, Environmental Change, and Labor Process in the Central American Banana Industry," American Historical Review, 106:1 (February 2001): 49-80.

The Lewis Hanke Prize (Supports transformation of dissertation into book):

Bianca Premo, "Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima"

The Lydia Cabrera Award for Cuban Historical Studies (Supports study of Cuba between 1492 and 1868):

Michele Reid, University of Texas at Austin, for her research project "Negotiating a Slave Regime: Free People of Color in Cuba, 1844-1868"

Distinguished Service Award:

Ralph Lee Woodward, Texas Christian University

Guggenheim Fellowships

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its 2003-2004 research fellowships, with the following Latin Americanists receiving awards:

Rafael Barajas Durán, Writer and Cartoonist for La Jornada (Mexico City), "Mexican Political Caricature of Combat, 1872-1910"

Antonio García de León, National Institute of Anthropology and History (Morelos, Mexico), "Colonial Veracruz and its Sotavento Coast, 1519-1821"

Horacio Armando Paglione, University of Buenos Aires/Director...