Awards

Awards Offered by IEHS

  

GEORGE E. POZZETTA DISSERTATION AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT, 2009

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society announces competition for the 2009 George E. Pozzetta Award. It invites applications from any Ph.D. candidate who will have completed qualifying examinations by Dec. 1, 2008, 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 3-5 page descriptive proposal in English, discussing the significance of the work, the methodology, sources, and collections to be consulted. The application must also include a proposed budget, brief curriculum vitae, and a supporting letter from the major advisor. All materials must be received by each committee member by December 15, 2008, which is the submission deadline.


Send materials in hard copy (no FAXes accepted) to:

Raymond Mohl, Department of History, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL

Nancy Green, Ecole des Hautes, Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 105, Boulevard Raspail, 75006, Paris

Russell Kazal, The Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA  91108

Inquiries to Professor Kazal, Chair of the Committee.

WINNER: GEORGE POZZETTA DISSERTATION AWARD 2008


Danielle Battisti, a graduate student in the history department at State University of New York at Buffalo.  Her dissertion project is “Manipulating Immigration Restriction in Postwar America:  Italian Americans and Italian Immigration, 1945-1965”

 

THEODORE SALOUTOS BOOK AWARD, 2009

Closing date for submissions for the annual Theodore Saloutos Book Award is December 31, 2008. To be eligible, a book must be copyrighted 2008. A book may be nominated by the author, the publisher, a member of the prize committee, or a member of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Inquiries and nominations should be submitted to the chair of the Saloutos Prize Committee, Diane Vecchio. Email: diane.vecchio@furman.edu.

 

Copies of the book must be received by all three members of the committee by December 31, 2007. Committee members and addresses are as follows:


Chair of the Committee

Diane Vecchio
Department of History
Furman University
Greenville, SC  29613-0444

Email: diane.vecchio@furman.edu


Robert Rockaway
Department of Jewish History
Tel-Aviv University
PO Box 39040

Ramat Aviv, Israel  69978

Email: rockawayrobert@hotmail.com

 

Maria Cristina Garcia
Department of History
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York  14853

 

 

 

THEODORE SALOUTOS BOOK AWARD, WINNER 2007


2007 Theodore Saloutos Prize of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society goes to Elliott Barkan for his book, From All Points:  America’s Immigrant West, 1870s-1952 (Indiana University Press, 2007)

 

Volumes have been written about immigrants who settled in the large urban and rural areas of the American East and Midwest.  But very little systematic, scholarly effort has focused on immigration to the American West.  Elliott Barkan has admirably filled this gap with a sweeping historical study of immigration to the western United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, two states that have often been overlooked in history, Barkan examines an array of immigrant groups including Asians, Armenians, Germans, Greeks, Swedes, Mexicans, Italians, and Basques, and places their story within the broader context of America’s history and immigration policies.  This study is enriched by the author’s judicious use of oral histories that give immigrant women and men the opportunity to tell of their lives, successes, and failures, in their own voice.  In spit of the book’s grand scale and broad perspective, Barkan does not neglect topics traditionally associated with immigration history—issues of assimilation, discrimination, and whiteness.  And he does so for varied immigrant groups in a huge section of the country.  The committee believes that this book makes a major contribution to understanding the American immigrant experience and is pleased to award it the 2007 Theodore Saloutos Prize.


CARLTON C. QUALEY MEMORIAL ARTICLE AWARD 2009

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 2009 for an article appearing in the Journal during 2007-2008. Questions regarding this award should be directed to the Editor of the journal, Professor John Bukowczyk, Department of History, 3094 FAB, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.  aa2092@wayne.edu           

WINNER: CARLTON C. QUALEY MEMORIAL ARTICLE AWARD, 2007


At its annual meeting in March 2007, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society presented its 2007 award to David Roediger and James Barrett for their article, "The Irish and the 'Americanization' of the 'New Immigrants' in the Streets and Churches of the Urban United States, 1900-1930" which appeared in JAEH, 24:4, Summer 2005.

The next award will be presented at the dinner meeting of the Society in 2009 for an article appearing in the journal in 2007-2008.  

GUIDELINES FOR THE OAH/IEHS HIGHAM TRAVEL GRANT AWARD 2007

   

GUIDELINES FOR THE OAH/IEHS HIGHAM TRAVEL GRANT AWARD

1. 

Established in memory of  Prof. John Higham, who died July 2003

2.  

Travel awards of $500 to THREE Graduate students each year

3.

Funds to be used by graduate students toward costs of attending OAH/IEHS annual meeting

4.  

Deadline for ELECTRONIC submission of application will be December 1, 2007

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Applications are to be sent to higham@lists.oah.org and only in Word format

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CHAIR OF COMMITTEE: Prof. Nancy Foner, Hunter College & Graduate Center, CUNY,  nfoner@spec.net

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CANDIDATE'S PREFERED AREA OF CONCENTRATION: American Immigration and/or American Ethnic and/or   American Intellectual history.

 

a

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

 

b.

QUALIFICATION, Minimum Preferred: ABD

 

c.

TRAVEL FUNDING: Applicants will need to indicate if other travel moneys will be made available

 

d.

ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS: Committee will seek some balance by gender, region of country, and type of university (e.g., major research university, and  second tier)

 

e.  

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

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DECISIONS will be forwarded to the OAH by January 15,2008

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AWARD will be given to student when he/she attends the annual meeting in the year for which the award was given

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You may also obtain information on this award from the OAH web site:  www.oah.org/pubs/cmteguide/higham/index.html

      

Elliott R. Barkan, Former President IEHS
ebarkan@csusb.edu

Lee Formwalt, Executive Director, OAH
lee@oah.org

 

Cheryl Greenberg, Trinity College

Cheryl.Greenberg@trincoll.edu


The Higham guidelines will appear in the Journal of American Ethnic History, the IEHS Newsletter, and the OAH Newsletter.

 

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