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BISHKO MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR BEST ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN 2008 IN THE FIELD OF MEDIEVAL IBERIAN HISTORY BY A NORTH AMERICAN SCHOLAR


The Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies solicits submissions for the annual Charles Julian Bishko Memorial Prize for the best article published in 2008 in the field of medieval Iberian history by a North American scholar. 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. 
This year's prize, consisting of an honorarium of $250, will be awarded at the 2009 annual meeting of SSPHS (Kansas City, Missouri, April 2-5).  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 2008 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, 2009.

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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