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BISHKO MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR BEST ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN 2007 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 2007 prize, consisting of an honorarium of $250, at its 2008 annual meeting (Fort Worth, Texas, April 3-6).  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 2007 will be eligible for consideration.  Submissions should include the following:  (1) a copy of the publication (photocopies are acceptable); (2) a copy of the volume’s contents page showing the volume title, number, 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, 2008.

Prize committee:

William D. Phillips, Jr. (committee chair)
Department of History
University of Minnesota
614 Social Sciences
267 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Email: phill004@umn.edu

Debra Blumenthal
Department of History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410
Email: blumenthal@history.ucsb.edu

Kate van Liere
Department of History
Calvin College
1845 Knollcrest Circle, S.E.
Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402
Email: kvliere@calvin.edu

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