1998 CLAH PRIZE RECIPIENTS



Herbert E. Bolton Memorial Prize
Winner: Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Illinois--Chicago
Cultural Politics in Revolution
(University of Arizona Press, Tucson)

Honorable Mention: Rosalie Schwartz, San Diego State University
Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba
(University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln)


CLAH Prize
Winner: Adrian Bantjes, University of Wyoming
"Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Revolutionary Mexico: The Dechristianization Campaigns, 1929-1940"
MexicanStudies/Estudios Mexicanos 13 (Winter, 1997)

Honorable Mentions: Andres Guerrero, Madrid Spain
"The Construction of a Ventriloquist's Image: Liberal Discourse and the 'Miserable Indian Race' in Late 19th Century Ecuador."
JLAS 29 (October, 1997)
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Carleton University
"The Intersection of Rape and Marriage in Late-Colonial and Early National Mexico."
CLAH 6 (Fall, 1997)


Distinguished Service Award
Winner: Richard Greenleaf, Tulane University


Life-Time Achievement Award
Winner: Dolores Moyano Martin, Library of Congress
For 28 years as editor of Handbook on Latin American Studies


Tibesar Prize
Winner: Lila M. Caimari, Mercy College
"Whose Criminals Are These? Church, State and Patronatos and the Rehabilitation of Female Convicts (Buenos Aires, 1890-1940)."
The Americas October, 1997


James R. Scobie Memorial Award
Winner: Mauricio Damian Rivero, Brigham Young University
Research Proposal for "The Words of God: Religious Texts and the Counter Reformation in Spain and Spanish-America."


James A. Robertson Memorial Award
Winner: Kathryn Burns, University of Florida
"Gender and the Politics of Mestizaje: The Convent of Santa Clara in Cuzco, Peru"
HAHR 78:1 (February, 1998)

Honorable Mentions: Gladys Rojas Chaves, Universidad de Costa Rica
Steven Palmer, Newfoundland, Canada
"Educating Seniorita: Teacher Training, Social Mobility, and the Birth of Costa Rican Feminism, 1885-1925." HAHR 78:1 (February, 1998)


The Lydia Cabrera Award
Winners: Marikay McCabe, Columbia University
"Regulating Work, Legislating Gender: 'Public Women' in Nineteenth-Century Havana, Cuba"

M. Sherry Johnson, Florida International University
"The Majority Were Totally Destroyed: Natural Disasters and the Course of Cuban History, 1763-1804"


Lewis Hanke Prize
Winner: S. Elizabeth Penry, Fordham University
"The People Are King: Modernity and Popular Sovereignty in Indigenous Rebellions of Colonial Peru."

Honorable Mentions: Karen Racine, Valparaiso University
"Imagining Independence: London's Spanish American Community (1790-1830)."
Marc Becker, Gettysburg College
"Indian Movements and the Left in Twentieth-Century Ecuador."