Two years ago the International Association of Inter-American Studies held its first competition for the best essay and for the best thesis in Inter-American Studies. The winners were Earl E. Fitz (Vanderbilt University) for the essay competition and Jeffrey Lawrence (Princeton University) for the thesis competition.
Continuing its efforts to promote inter-American Studies, the Association is now announcing this year’s competitions. There are again two awards, one for the best master’s or doctoral or post-doctoral thesis and one for the best article or essay in Inter-American Studies completed since August 2014. Submitted work does not yet need to be in print to be considered. Only work in Spanish or in English can be submitted. Each award carries a cash prize of 250 euros or 280 U.S. dollars.
Contestants who would like to have their work considered will need to join the association. If you would like to do so, please go to http://www.interamericanstudies.net/?page_id=26 (in English) or to http://www.interamericanstudies.net/?page_id=135 (in Spanish). Please be advised that members with student status may ask for their membership fees to be waived. To ask for a fee waiver, please contact our treasurer Heidi Moertl at treasurer@interamericanstudies.net with proof of your student status.
To submit work to be considered for the award for best master’s or doctoral or post-doctoral thesis completed since August 2014, please send your thesis as a WORD or PDF file as well as an abstract of one page or less to the four jury members:
Ulla Kriebernegg (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) at ulla.kriebernegg@uni-graz.at,
Graciela Martínez-Zalce (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) at zalce@servidor.unam.mx,
Antonio Barrenechea (University of Mary Washington) at abarrene@umw.edu, and
Francisco Lomelí (University of California at Santa Barbara) at lomeli@spanport.ucsb.edu.
To submit work to be considered for the award for best academic article or essay completed since August 2014, please send your article or essay as a WORD or PDF file as well as an abstract of one page or less to the four jury members:
Luz Angélica Kirschner (Bielefeld University; South Dakota State University) at luz_a.kirschner@uni-bielefeld.de,
María Herrera Sobek (University of California at Santa Barbara) at maria.sobek@evc.ucsb.edu,
Emron Esplin (Brigham Young University) at emronesplin@gmail.com, and
Stefan Rinke (Freie Universität Berlin) at rinke@zedat.fu-berlin.de.
The deadline for submissions is September 10, 2016. The winners of both awards will be announced at the business meeting of the International Association of Inter-American Studies at UC Santa Barbara on October 5, 2016. Award recipients who are not present at that meeting will receive their award and prize by mail.
