Inter-American Notes: Awards, Fellowships, and Prizes

Academy of American Franciscan History Dissertation Fellowship, 2015 Winners

The Academy of American Franciscan History is pleased to announce the winners of its 2015 Dissertation Fellowship competition.

Daniel Cano. “Transforming Schools for Progress: Mapuche and Guarania Mission-Schools in Chile and Bolivia, 1900-1950.”

Charlton Yingling. “Colonialism Unraveling: Religion, Radicalism, and the Franciscan Family in Santo Domingo during the Age of Revolutions, 1784-1822.”

Applications for next year’s fellowship are due February 1, 2016. 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 prizewinners for 2014.

The Bolton-Johnson Prize (2014)

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

Robert W. Patch, Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670–1810 (Oklahoma, 2013).

Honorable Mention:

Seth Garfield, In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region (Duke, 2013).

The Distinguished Service Award (2014)

Lyman Johnson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The Elinor Melville Prize for Latin American Environmental History (2014)

Susanna Hecht, The Scramble for the Amazon and the ‘Lost Paradise’ of Euclides da Cunha (Chicago, 2013).

The James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize (2014)

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

Brodwyn Fischer,” The Red Menace Reconsidered,” Hispanic American Historical Review 94:1 (November 2014), pp. 1–33.

The James R. Scobie Memorial Award (2015)

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

Fernanda Bretones Lane, Vanderbilt University: “Empire and Liberation in the Caribbean: Cuba and Jamaica the Age of Revolutions.”

Daniel Cozart, University of New Mexico, “Afro-Peruvian Creoles: The Social and Political History of Black Peruvians in an Era of Nationalism and Scientific Racism”

Audrey Henderson, Emory University, “‘Exceptional Conditions:’ The Postrevolutionary Politics of Lake Texcoco Development”

Shannon James, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Resurrecting the Past in the New Nicaragua: The Politics of Memory and the Sandinista Revolution”

Cos Tollerson, New York University, “Social and Cultural Change and the 1964 coup d’état in Brazil.”

The Lewis Hanke Prize (2014)

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

Alexander Hidalgo, Texas Christian University, “The Indian Map Trade in Colonial Oaxaca.”

The Lydia Cabrera Award (2014)

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

Scott Cave, Pennsylvania State University, “Signals: Cross-Cultural Communication in the Spanish Atlantic Frontier, 1470–1570”

The Mexican History Prize (2014)

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.

Jamie M. Pensado, Rebel Mexico: Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties (Stanford, 2013).

Honorable Mention:

Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato, Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico (Harvard, 2013).

The Tibesar Prize (2014)

This prize is for the best article in The Americas.

Caroline Williams, “‘Living Between Empires: Diplomacy and Politics in the Late-Eighteenth Century Mosquitia,” The Americas 70:2 (October 2013), pp. 237–268.

The Vanderwood Prize (2013)

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

Michel Gobat, “The Invention of Latin America: A Transnational History of Anti-Imperialism, Democracy, and Race,” American Historical Review 118:5 (2013), pp. 1345–1375.