SLAS Prizes
Harold Blakemore Prize | The JISLAC Essay Prize
This prize is awarded to the best essay by a postgraduate student.
The deadline for submission is 28 February 2009.
To enter the competition submit TWO printed copies of the essay which should be double spaced, a maximum of 8000 words (including notes, but excluding bibliography) and should follow standard academic conventions. Email submissions will only be accepted in exceptional circumstances. A panel of judges for the prize will be appointed by the SLAS Committee and the winner will be announced at the SLAS Annual Conference.
Send two copies of the essay to: Peter Lambert (SLAS President), Department of Spanish, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY. Email: P.W.Lambert@bath.ac.uk
Previous Winners of the Harold Blakemore Prize
(2009) Conor Farrington "New Political Spaces and Public Sphere 'Deliberativeness' in Ecuador 1822-2009"
(2008) Michael Kent "The Making of Customary Territories"
(2007) Maria Fernanda Garcia Rincon "Appropriation of public space: politics of exchange and market transactions in Caracas, Venezuela"
(2006) Gabriel Paquette "Consulados, Economic Societies and State-Society Synergy in the Spanish Empire, c. 1760-1800"
(2005) Into Goudsmit "Praying for Government: Peasant Disengagement with the Bolivian State"
(2005) Ariadna Acevedo Rodrigo "Playing the Tune of Citizenship: Indian Brass Bands in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, 1876-1911"
(2004) Sean W Burges "Without Sticks or Carrots: Brazilian Leadership in South America During the Cardoso Era, 1992-2003"
(2003) Michael Goebel "Nation Revisited: Argentine Historical Revisionism and Peronism"
(2002) Nicola Foote "Rethinking Race, Gender and Citizenship: Black West Indian Women in Costa Rica, c. 1920-1940"
The JISLAC essay prize was an annual essay competition for postdoctoral scholars, linked to the Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin American and the Caribbean (JISLAC). The winner in 2008 was Gabriel Paquette with his essay "Jose da Silva Lisboa and the Vicissitudes of Enlightened Reform in Brazil".