News & Notices: Awards

News & Notices I19 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 2004 for an article published between April 1, 2002 and December 31, 2003. 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 2003-2004 corninitteeto select the winning article consists of: Jeffrey Bortz (Chair) Appalachian State University History Department Boone, NC 28608 Stephen Morris University of South Alabama Political Science 231 Humanities Bldg. Mobile. AL 36688 Juan Carlos Rodriguez Cordero Exergo Ltda. Escazo San Jose, Costa Rica P.O. BOX1619-1250 The 2002 prize was awarded to: Juan Carlos Rodriguez Cordero for his article "( Re)equilibrios politicos en Costa Rica: El poder constituyente y el control de constitucionalidad " which appeared in the Soutl?Eastern Lutiri Americanist, volume XLV, No. 3,4, WinteriSpring 2002. SELA SummedF~ill200.3 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 Moseley competition. Students should plan to complete a high quality first draft for submission no later than February 1,2004. 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 2004 Annals and its author will be awarded a monetary prize of $100.00. The committee members for 2003-2004 are: Anthony Cavender (Chair) East Tennessee State University P.O. Box 70644 Johnson City, TN 37614-0644 Pamela Murray University of Alabama-Birmingham 2117 Grayson Valley Dr. Birmingham, AL 35235 Rafael Ocasio Agnes Scott College Department of Modem Foreign Languages and Literatures 141 East College Avenue Decatur, GA 30030-3797 The 2002 Edward Moseley Student Paper Award was awarded to: Kristin Sorensen of Indiana University for her paper, “Chilean Media and Discourses of tluman Rights.” Honorable Mentions went to Michael Cole, the University of Florida and Paul Worley, UNC-Chapel Hill. Nervs & Notices 121 The Alfred B. Thomas Book Award The A.B. Thomas Book Award was established by the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)to honor the labors and contributions ofAlfred 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. The committee will have the opportunity to select two honorable mentions The recipient must be a member of SECOLAS. Co-authored works will be acceptable but anthologies and 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 having at least one non-Thomas, non-historian. Books for consideration must be sent to each of the 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 2002 or 2003. Books published in 2002 must not have been submitted for consideration in the previous year. The committee members for 2003-2004 are: James Henderson (Chair) Coastal Caroline University Department of Politics Conway, SC 29526-1954 Kenneth Mijeski East Tennessee State University Political Science Box 70651 Johnson City, TN 37614 Melvin Arrington University of Mississippi Modem Languages University, MS 38677 The 2002 (awarded in 2003) prize was awarded to Merlin H. Forster, for The Cornmitted Word: Studies in Spanish-American Poetry (Romance Monographs No. 59). ...