Bolton-Johnson Prize

Winner: Louis A. Pérez, University of North Carolina
On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture
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Honorable Mention: Ann Twinam, University of Cincinnati
Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America

Tibesar Prize

Winners: Co-Authors: Robert Buffington, Bowling Green State University and Pablo Piccato, Columbia University
"Tales of Two Women: The Narrative Construal of Porfirian Reality"
The Americas 55:3 (January 1999)

Vera Blinn Reber, Shippensburgh University
"Misery, Pain, and Death: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth Century Buenos Aires"
The Americas 56:4 (April 2000)

Howard Francis Cline Memorial Prize

Winner: Thomas A. Abercrombie, New York University
Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People

CLAH Prize

Winner: Sergio Serulnikov, Boston College
"Customs and Rules: Bourbon Rationalizing Projects and Social Conflicts in Northern
Potosí during the 1770s"
Colonial Latin American Review, 8:21 (1999)

Honorable Mention: Peter M. Beattie, Michigan State University
"Conscription Versus Penal Servitude: Army Reform's Influence on the Brazilian
State's Management of Social Control, 1870-1930"
Journal of Social History, 32:4 (Summer 1999)

Distinguished Service Award

Emilia Viotti da Costa
Yale University

James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize

Winner: Susan Schroeder, Tulane University
"Jesuits, Nahuas, and the Good Death Society in Mexico City, 1710-1767"
HAHR 80:1 (February 2000)

Honorable Mention: Kevin Terraciano, UCLA
"The Colonial Mixtec Community"
HAHR 80:1 (February 2000)

James R. Scobie Memorial Award

Winners: Mayra E. Beers, Florida International University
Proposal: "Murder in San Isidro: Public Power and Private Influence in the Cuban Republic, 1900-1920"

Jennifer E. Forsythe, University of Miami
Proposal: "The Impact of Modernization on Traditional PopularMedicine in Cuzco, Peru, from the
1910s to Present"

Lydia Cabrera Award

Winners: Luis Martínez Fernández, Rutgers University
Research Project: Translation of Alexander von Humboldt's "Political Essay on the Island of Cuba"

David A. Sartorius, University of North Carolina
Research Project: "The Limits of Loyalty: Race and the Public Sphere in 19th Century Cienfuegos"

Lewis Hanke Prize

Lessie Jo Frazier, University of South Carolina
Research Project: "Salt in the Sand: Memory and State Violence in Tarapaca Chile, 1890-Present"