News & Notices: Awards

The Latin Americanist WinterBpring 2004 NEWS & NOTICES: AWARDS The Sturgis Leavitt Prize The $200.00 prize is awarded annually for the best article published by a SECOLAS member on a Latin American or Iberian subject. It will be awarded in 2005 for an article published between April 1, 2003 and December 31, 2004. The article may be in English, French, Portuguese or Spanish. Preference may be given to articles that have an appeal beyond a single discipline. The 2004-2005 committee to select the winning article consists of Stephen Morris (Chair) University of South Alabama Political Science 231 Humanities Bldg. Mobile, AL 36688 Juan Carlos Rodriguez Corder0 Exergo Ltda. Escaz6 San Josb, Costa Rica Timothy Hawkins Department of History Indiana State University Terre Haute, Indiana, 47809-9989 P.O. BOX1619-1250 Edward Moseley Student Paper Award SECOLAS members are asked to encourage graduate students to begin thinking about next year’s conference in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and to submit quality papers for the Edward News & Notices 95 Moseley competition. Students should plan to complete a high quality first draft for submission no later than February 1, 2005. Papers in all categories of Latin American studies, including social sciences, history, humanities, and literature are eligible. The paper must be presented at the meeting to be eligible for the prize. The winning paper will be published in the 2005Annals and its author will be awarded a monetary prize of $100.00. The committee members for 2004-2005 are: Anthony Cavender (Chair) East Tennessee State University P.O. Box 70644 Johnson City, TN 37614-0644 Rafael Ocasio Agnes Scott College Department of Modem Foreign Languages and Literatures 141East College Avenue Decatur, GA 30030-3797 Michael Hall Department of History Armstrong Atlantic State University 11935Abercorn Street, Savannah, Georgia 31419 The 2003-2004 prize was awarded to: Paul Worley, “Evolution to Revolution: Creating the Mexican in Justo Sierra and Martin Luis GuzmBn.” TheAlfred B. Thomas Book Award TheA.B.ThomasBookAwardwas established by the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) to honor the labors and contributions of Alfred Barnaby Thomas, one of its founders and long-time supporters. He died in December 1990, at the age of ninety-four. The policies of the award process are as follows: The award will be $500.00. 9 The committee will have the opportunity to select two The recipient must be a member of SECOLAS. Co-authored works will be acceptable but anthologies and honorable mentions The Latin Americanist WinterBpring2004 edited works will not. The theme of the book must be Latin American in nature. The award will be given annually. Committee members will be three in number, always Books for consideration must be sent to each of the having at least one non-Thomas, non-historian. committee members by December 1st of the year prior to the award. Depending on the number received, books may not be returned. Eligible books must have been published in either 2003 or 2004. Books published in 2003 must not have been submitted for consideration in the previous year. The committee members for 2004-2005 are: Kenneth Mijeski (Chair) East Tennessee State University Political Science Box 70651 Johnson City, TN 37614 Melvin Arrington University of Mississippi Modem Languages University, MS 38677 Jane Landers Dean’s Office College of Arts and Sciences Vanderbilt University 301 Kirkland Hall Nashville, TN 37240 The 2003-2004 prize was awarded to: Max Paul Friedman, Nazis and GoodNeighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans o f Latin America in World WarII (New York: Cambridge UP, 2003). ...