CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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