Awards Directory

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society presented the 2010 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award in American Immigration History to co-winners Jennifer Guglielmo and Lorrin Thomas at its annual meeting in Houston, Texas, in March 2011.  Jennifer Guglielmo’s winning work is Living the Revolution:  Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2010) and Lorrin Thomas’ is Puerto Rican Citizen:  History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2010).  The annual award, recently raised to $2,000, was established in memory of Professor Theodore Saloutos, distinguished historian and first president of the Immigration History Society, by Mrs. Florence Saloutos.
The 2012 award will be presented for the book judged best on any aspect of the immigration history of the United States. “Immigration history” is defined as the history of the movement of peoples from other countries to the United States, of the repatriation movements of immigrants, and of the consequences of these migrations, both for the United States and the countries of origin.  To be eligible for the award, a book must be copyrighted “2011,” must be based on substantial primary research, and must present a major new scholarly interpretation.  A book may be nominated by its author, the publisher, a member of the prize committee, or a member of the Society.  Inquiries and nominations should be submitted to the chair of the Saloutos Prize Committee, Professor  Eiichiro Azuma, Department of History, 208 Colgate Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379 (eazuma@sas.upenn.edu).  Copies of the book must be received by the three members of the committee by December 15, 2011.  Send books to Dr. Azuma at the above address as well as to Prof. Alan Kraut, 2801 New Mexico Avenue, NW  Unit 511, Washington, D.C. 2007,
(akraut@american.edu) and (Prof. Madeline Hsu, 2309 Kinney Road, Austin, TX 78704 (myhsu@austin.utexas.edu).  The 2012 award for books published in 2011 will be presented at the annual dinner meeting of the Society in April 2012.

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society announces competition for the 2011 George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award.  It invites applications from any Ph.D. candidate who will have completed qualifying exams by December 15, 2011, 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, 2011, with the winner to be notified by March 1, 2012.  Send application materials by e-mail to all committee members, with an additional hard copy by surface mail to the committee chair, Professor Nancy Carnevale, Department of History, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043; to Professor Tyler Anbinder (anbinder@gwu.edu); and to Professor Walter Kamphoefner (waltkamp@tamu.edu).  Inquiries may be sent to the committee chair, Professor Carnevale, at carnevalen@mail.montclair.edu.

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 Immigration and Ethnic History Society presented the 2009-2010 Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award to Julio Cesar Capó, Jr., “Queering Mariel: Mediating Cold War Foreign Policy and U.S. Citizenship among Cuba’s Homosexual Exile Community, 1978-1994” (vol. 29, no. 4) at its annual meeting in 2011.

The next award will be presented at the dinner meeting of the Society in 2013 for an article appearing in the Journal during 2011-2012.

Questions regarding this award should be directed to the editor of the journal, Prof. John Bukowczyk, Dept. of History, 3094 FAB, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202 (aa2092@wayne.edu).

The Organization of American Historians (OAH) and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) 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, 2011.

Lon Kurashige (Committee Chair)
Departments of History and American Studies & Ethnicity
University of Southern California
3520 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0034

Dominic A. Pacyga
10123 South Wood Street
Chicago, IL 60643

Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz
Department of History
MSC06 3760
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1181

Recipients will be notified after February 1, 2012.  Grants will be given to student when he/she attends the 2012 OAH/IEHS annual meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 19-22, 2012.  See:  http://www.oah.org/awards/awards.higham.index.html

Three John Higham travel grants, jointly administered by the IEHS and the OAH,  to attend the 2011 Organization of American Historians Convention were awarded to Mimi Cowan (Boston College),  Joseph Solomon Moore II (University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and William Sturkey (Ohio State University).