Inter-American Notes: Awards, Fellowships, and Prizes

Academy of American Franciscan History Dissertation Fellowship, 2014 Winner

The Academy of American Franciscan History is pleased to announce the winner of its 2013 Dissertation Fellowship competition.

Dierksmeier, Laura. “Franciscan and Aztec Confraternities in Mexico, 1526–1650: Innovative Social Assistance and Poor Relief based on Moral Theology.”

Applications for next year’s fellowship are due February 1, 2015. Please submit applications to the Academy of American Franciscan History, 1712 Euclid Ave., Berkeley, Calif. 94709. www.aafh.org.

Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Awards and Prizewinners

The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) is proud to announce its list of prizewinners for 2013.

The Bolton-Johnson Prize (2013)

This prize is for the best book in English on Latin American history published in the previous year.

Rebecca Earle, The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race, and the Colonial Experience in South America, 1492–1700 (Cambridge, 2013).

Honorable Mention: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, 2012).

The Distinguished Service Award (2013)

Valerie Millholland, Senior Editor with Duke University Press

The Elinor Melville Prize for Latin American Environmental History (2013)

Eric D. Carter, Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina (Tuscaloosa, 2012).

The Howard F. Cline Memorial Prize (2013)

The Howard F. Cline Memorial Prize is awarded biennially (in odd years) to the book or article in English, German, or a Romance language judged to make the most significant contribution to the history of Indians in Latin America, referring to any time before the immediate present.

Laura Matthew, Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala (Chapel Hill, 2012).

The James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize (2013)

This prize is for the best article published in the Hispanic American Historical Review.

Bryan McCann. “The View From the Corner Bar: Sérgio Porto’s Crônicas in 1960s Brazil” HAHR 92:3 (August 2012), pp. 507–535.

The James R. Scobie Memorial Award (2013)

This award supports a short, exploratory research trip abroad (normally four to twelve weeks) to determine the feasibility of a Ph.D. dissertation topic dealing with some facet of Latin American history.

Kristie Flannery, University of Texas at AustinChloe Ireton, University of Texas at AustinRebekah Martin, The Pennsylvania State UniversityChad McCutchen, University of Texas at ArlingtonJohn Milstead, Michigan State University

The Lewis Hanke Prize (2013)

This award supports field research that will allow transformation of a dissertation into a book.

Enver Casimir, Marist College, “Kid Chocolate—Champion of the Patria: Sport, Race, and National Aspiration in Republican Cuba.”

The Lydia Cabrera Award (2013)

The Lydia Cabrera Award supports the study of Cuba between 1492–1868.

Andrés Pletch, University of Michigan, “State of Exception.”

The Mexican History Prize (2013)

This prize is awarded annually for the book or article judged to be the most significant work on the history of Mexico published during the previous year.

Moramay López-Alonso. Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850–1950 (Stanford, 2012).

The Tibesar Prize (2013)

This prize is for the best article in The Americas.

Paul Ramírez, “‘Like Herod’s Massacre’: Quarantines, Bourbon Reform, and Popular Protest in Oaxaca’s Smallpox Epidemic, 1796–1797,” The Americas 69:2 (October 2012), pp. 203–235.

The Vanderwood Prize (2013)

This prize is for the best article on Latin American history in a journal other than HAHR or The Americas.

Ada Ferrer, “Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic,” American Historical Review 117:1 (2012), pp. 40–66.

The Warren Dean Prize (2013)

This prize is for the book or article judged to be the most significant work on the history of Brazil published in English during the two years prior to the award year.

Paulina Alberto, Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Chapel Hill, 2011).