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Awards Awards Offered by IEHS ·
THEODORE SALOUTOS BOOK AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT ·
WINNER: THEODORE SALOUTOS BOOK AWARD · CARLTON C. QUALEY MEMORIAL ARTICLE AWARD ·
WINNER: CARLTON C. QUALEY MEMORIAL ARTICLE
AWARD · GEORGE E. POZZETTA DISSERTATION AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT ·
WINNER: GEORGE E. POZZETTA DISSERTATION
AWARD · GUIDELINES FOR THE OAH/IEHS HIGHAM TRAVEL GRANT AWARD 2010 THEODORE SALOUTOS BOOK AWARD, 2009 Closing Date December 31, 2009 The 2009 award will be presented for the book judged best on
any aspect of the immigration history of the Inquiries and nominations should be submitted to the chair of
the Saloutos Prize Committee, Professor Maria
Cristina Garcia, Department of History, 450 McGraw Hall, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY 14853-4601 (mcg20@cornell.edu). Copies of the book must be received by the
three members of the committee by December 31, 2009. Send books to Prof. Garcia at the above
address as well as to Prof. Eiichiro Azuma,
Department of History, 208 College Hall, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379, eazuma@sas.upenn.edu,
and Prof. Alan Kraut, 6013 Sonoma Road, Bethesda, MD 20817, akraut@american.edu. The 2009 award will be presented at the
annual dinner meeting of the Society in 2010. THEODORE SALOUTOS BOOK AWARD, WINNER 2008 The 2008 Saloutos Book Award has
been awarded to Allison Varzally of Varzally’s ambitious study challenges readers
to consider how race and ethnic formation is influenced by interactions with
multiple groups. Using a wide range of sources including oral
histories, interviews, memoirs, newspaper accounts, legal records and census
data, Varzally examines the interactions of
immigrants and their children--Mexican, Black, Asian, European, and Native
American--in California in the first half of the 20th century as they came
together in the workplace, schools, churches and other institutions of
American society. Despite occasional ethnic conflict, the lives of Varzally joins a growing list of scholars who
offer a broader conceptual framework for understanding how race and ethnicity
is conceived and articulated in American society. A prize of
$200 is awarded every other year for the best article appearing in the Journal of American Ethnic History during
the two preceding calendar years. The award of $200 was established by the
Immigration and Ethnic History Society in memory of Professor Carlton C. Qualey, distinguished historian, newsletter editor,
treasurer, and a founder of the Society. The next award will be presented at
the dinner meeting of the Society in 2011 for an article appearing in the
Journal during 2009-2010. Questions regarding this award should be directed
to the Editor of the journal, Professor John Bukowczyk,
Department of History, 3094 QUALEY MEMORIAL ARTICLE AWARD, WINNER
2009 At its annual meeting in March 2009, the Immigration and
Ethnic History Society presented the 2009 Qualey
Article Award to Sam Erman, for "Meanings of Citizenship in the U.S.
Empire: Puerto Rico, Isabel Gonzalez,
and the Supreme Court, 1898-1905 which appeared in JAEH, 27:4 (Summer 2008). Dr. Erman’s
article addresses an important trend in contemporary American ethnic and
immigration history, by linking issues of race, gender, transnationalism,
imperialism and the law. With sound
research and innovative analysis, Erman
demonstrates not only the significance but also the wide-ranging implications
of a single court case, Gonzales v. Williams. The issue is a skillful
blend of legal, political, cultural and immigration/ethnic history. In
particular, Erman places the Gonzales case in a historical context that underscores the
ramifications of Overall, this is a well-organized,
cogently argued essay, rooted in a broad array of primary sources that
underscores the multi-dimensional nature of immigration/ethnic history and
situates migration and allied issues within the broader context of GEORGE E. POZZETTA DISSERTATION
AWARD, 2010 The Immigration and Ethnic History Society announces
competition for the 2010 George E. Pozzetta
Dissertation Award. It invites applications
from any Ph.D. candidate who will have completed qualifying exams by December
1, 2009, and whose thesis focuses on American immigration, emigration, or
ethnic history. The award provides
$500 for expenses to be incurred in researching the dissertation. Applicants must submit a three-page to
five-page descriptive proposal in English, discussing the significance of the
work, the methodology, sources, and collections to be consulted. Also included must be a proposed budget, a
brief c.v., and a supporting letter from the major adviser. Submission deadline is December 15, 2009,
with the winner to be notified by March 1, 2010. Send all material in hard copy (no faxes
accepted) to Professor Raymond A. Mohl, Department
of History, Inquiries
may be sent to the committee chair, Prof. Mohl, at rmohl@uab.edu. . POZZETTA DISSERTATION AWARD, WINNER
2009 The 2009 winner of the George E. Pozzetta
Award is Hidetaka Hirota,
Boston College, for the project, “`To Any Place beyond Sea where he
belongs’: Nativism,
Citizenship, and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1848-1877,”
under the direction of Professor Kevin Kenny. Hirota’s dissertation research uncovers a
policy and practice of immigrant deportation far earlier than commonly
thought, at the state level. In the
thirty years after 1848, Hirota’s analysis of this little-known policy
challenges existing historiography on a whole range of points -- a set of
challenges the award committee found particularly impressive. The project uncovers state-level legal and
policy precedents for the federal exercise of immigration restriction
manifested in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act; it expands our consideration of
nineteenth-century anti-Irish nativism beyond nativist representations to state actions; it explores
the boundaries of nineteenth-century immigrant citizenship from new angles,
including economic standing; and it counters the conventional view of Irish
immigration as a one-way street by imaginatively reconsidering deportation as
a form of return migration. Hirota’s dissertation will challenge us to rethink
much of what we thought we knew about nativism,
immigration policy, and social citizenship in the nineteenth-century GUIDELINES FOR THE OAH/IEHS HIGHAM TRAVEL GRANT AWARD 2010 Graduate
Students: Apply now for a 2010 OAH/IEHS Higham
Travel Grant. The
Organization of American Historians and the Immigration and Ethnic History
Society have created a fund to award travel grants in memory of John Higham (1920-2003), past president of both organizations,
and a towering figure in immigration, ethnic, and intellectual history. Travel
grants of $500 are awarded to three (3) graduate students each year. Funds
are to be used by graduate students toward costs of attending the OAH/IEHS
annual meeting. The successful candidates will have a preferred area of
concentration in American Immigration and/or American Ethnic and/or American
Intellectual history. APPLICATION PROCESS Required
Information: Current
and permanent addresses; educational background; degrees achieved and
expected; current institution attending; current status; travel funds from
other sources; publications and papers presented. Qualifications: Minimum preferred: ABD. Travel
Funding: Applicants
will need to indicate if other travel monies will be made available. Required
Statement:
Applicants will be required to include a short statement of no more than 500
words about how they envision attending the annual meeting will help prepare
them for a career in history. Additional
Considerations: The
committee will seek some balance by gender, region of country, and type of
university (e.g., major research university, and second tier).
One complete copy of each application should be sent to each committee member
listed below and received by December
1, 2009. Francille Rusan Wilson
(Committee Chair) Elliott Barkan Lon Kurashige Recipients
will be notified after February 1, 2010. Grants will be given to
students at the 2010 OAH/IEHS annual meeting in See: http://oah.org/activities/awards/higham/index.html OAH/IEHS HIGHAM TRAVEL GRANT, WINNERS 2009 Three John Higham travel grants to
attend the 2009 Organization of American Historians Convention, jointly administered
by the IEHS and the OAH, were awarded to graduate students Hidetaka Hirota (Boston
College), Donald W. Maxwell (Indiana University, Bloomington), and Elaine
Nelson (University of New Mexico). |