Inter-American Notes

Awards, Fellowships, and Prizes

Academy of American Franciscan History Dissertation Fellowship, 2013 Winners

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

Cesar Favila, "Music in Conceptionist Convents of New Spain (1610-1790)," University of Chicago.

Klint Ericson, "Sumptuous and Beautiful, as They Were: Architectural Form and Everyday Life in a Seventeenth-Century New Mexico Mission," University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Applications for next year's fellowship are due February 1, 2014. 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 2012.

The Bolton-Johnson Prize (2012)

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

John Tutino, Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011).

The Distinguished Service Award (2012)

Susan Socolow, Emory University

The Elinor Melville Prize for Latin American Environmental History (2012)

Emily Wakild, Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Justice, and Mexico's National Parks, 1910-1940 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011).

The James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize (2012)

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

Keely Maxwell, "Tourism, Environment, and Development on the Inca Trail," 92:1 (February 2012), pp. 143-171.

Honorable Mention: "Joanne Rappaport, "'Asi lo paresce por su aspeto': Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Bogotá," 91:4 (November 2011), pp. 601-631.

The James R. Scobie Memorial Award (2012)

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.

1. Christopher Brown, Emory University

2. Angelina Castillo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3. Lance Ingwersen, Vanderbilt University

4. Charlton Yingling, University of South Carolina

5. Jesse Zarley, University of Maryland-College Park

The Lewis Hanke Prize (2012)

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

Zeb Tortorici, New York University: "Contra Natura: Desire, Colonialism, and the Unnatural."

The Lydia Cabrera Award (2012)

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

Joseph M. Clark, Johns Hopkins University: "Regional Exchange in the Atlantic World: The Caribbean 'Mirror Cities' of Havana and Veracruz in the Seventeenth Century."

The Tibesar Prize (2012)

This prize is for the best article in The Americas.

Olga González-Silen, "Unexpected Opposition: Independence and the 1809 Leva de Vagos in the Province of Caracas," The Americas 68:3 (January 2012), pp. 347-375.

The Mexican History Prize (2012)

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.

Paul Gillingham, Cuahtémoc's Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011).

The Vanderwood Prize (2012)

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

Bianca Premo, "An Equity Against the Law: Slave Rights and Creole Jurisprudence in Spanish America," Slavery & Abolition 32:4 (2011), pp. 495-517.

Honorable Mention: Brian Bockelman, "Between the Gaucho and the Tango: Popular Songs and the Shifting Landscape of Modern Argentine Identity, 1895-1915," American Historical Review 116:3 (2011), pp. 577-601.

Books in Brief

The editorial office has received a number of edited volumes of articles that will be of interest to our readership. These works tend to be less suitable for unified reviews than monographs, and thus a considerable backlog has developed. To introduce these volumes, we occasionally list in this section the publication information and tables of contents entries for those we have received. The volumes selected for this issue provide an overview of recent scholarship in the areas of Africana, Slavery, and Diaspora Studies.

Black Social Movements in Latin America: From Monoculture Mestizaje to Multiculturalism. Edited by Jean Muteba Rahier. New York...