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BISHKO MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR BEST ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN 2005 IN THE FIELD OF MEDIEVAL IBERIAN HISTORY


Initiated in 2003, the Bishko Prize honors Professor Charles Julian Bishko, the distinguished historian of medieval Iberia who taught for 39 years at the University of Virginia.  The Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies will award the 2005 prize, consisting of a certificate and honorarium of $100, at its annual meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, in April 2006.  Articles may be written in Castilian, English, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese or French.  Articles in other languages will be considered if the original is accompanied by a full-text translation into Castilian, English, or Portuguese.  Only articles by North American scholars that appeared within the calendar year 2005 will be eligible for consideration.  Submissions should include the following:  (1) a copy of the publication (photocopies are acceptable); (2) a copy of the journal’s contents page showing the journal title, volume, and date; and (3) the author’s resume, including current address.   Please send complete materials to EACH member of the prize committee below.  The final deadline for submissions is January 15, 2006.

Prize committee:

Olivia Remie Constable (chair)
Department of History
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email: Olivia.R.Constable.1@nd.edu

Brian Catlos
Stevenson Academic Center
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077
Email: bcatlos@ucsc.edu

Deborah Blumenthal
Department of History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 92106-9410
Email: blumenthal@history.ucsb.edu

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