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2003 CLAH AWARD WINNERS

The Bolton-Johnson

Winner: Jean Franco
Title: The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Honorable Mention: John M. Hart
Title: Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002).

The Conference Prize

Winner: David Cahill
Title: “The Virgin and the Inca: An Incaic Procession in the City of Cuzco in 1692,”
Ethnohistory 49:3 (Summer 2002): 611-649.

Honorable Mention: Karen Vieira Powers
Title: “Conquering Discourses of Sexual Conquest: Of Women, Language, and
Mestizaje,” Colonial Latin American Review, 11:1 (2002): 7-32.

Honorable Mention: Rebecca Scott and Michael Zeuske
Title: “Property in Writing, Property on the Ground: Pigs, Horses, Land, and Citizenship
in the Aftermath of Slavery, Cuba 1880-1909.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 44:4 (October 2002): 669-699.

The Warren Dean Prize

Winner: Peter Beattie
Title: The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.

Honorable Mention: Hendrik Kraay
Title: Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.

 

The Lewis Hanke Prize.

Winner: María Elena Martínez
Project Title: “The Spanish Concept of Limpieza de Sangre and the Emergence of the
Race/ Class System in the Viceroyalty of New Spain.”

The James A. Robertson Memorial Prize

Winner: Richard L. Turits
Title: “A World Destroyed, A Nation Imposed: The 1937 Haitian Massacre in the
Dominican Republic,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 82:3 (August 2002).

The Tibesar Prize

Winner: B.J. Barickman
Title: “Reading the 1835 Parish Censuses from Bahia: Citizenship, Kinship, Slavery, and
Household in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil,” The Americas 59:3 (January 2003).

The Howard Cline Prize

Winner: Kevin Terraciano
Title: The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth
Centuries. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.

The James R. Scobie Memorial Award

Winners: Karen Velez (Will not attend) and Brenda Elsey (Will not attend)

The Lydia Cabrera Prize

Was not awarded this year because no complete and viable applications were received.

The Distinguished Service Award

Winner: Thomas Skidmore



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