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 2008.
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
(2008) Michael Kent "The Making of Customary Territories"
(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" and
(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"
About the JISLAC essay prize
The Society for Latin American Studies now has an annual essay competition for Post-Doctoral scholars, as part of the Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (JISLAC).
The competition is open to any UK-based scholar who has gained their doctorate within the previous five years, the winning essay-writer being awarded a cash prize (of £400). The subject of the essay should fall within the field of Latin American studies, and should be clearly based on recent or current research, although candidates are also invited to submit a research-based discussion piece (following the normal academic conventions). The work should not have been published elsewhere, and it should not reproduce the text of the candidate's recent doctoral thesis. The essay, which should be double-spaced and of no more than 8,000 words in length (including notes, but excluding bibliography), will be judged by a panel chosen by the SLAS Committee and the editors of the Bulletin of Latin American Research, and the winning essay will be considered by the Editors for possible publication in the Bulletin.
Send two printed copies of the essay to: Adrian Pearce (SLAS Secretary), History & Heritage, School of Arts, Communication & Culture, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus, Nottingham NG11 8NS.
Email: Adrian.Pearce@ntu.ac.uk
Previous winners of the JISLAC essay prize
(2008) Gabriel Paquette "Jose da Silva Lisboa and the Vicissitudes of Enlightened Reform in Brazil"