NEW - PRSA AWARDS - NEW
The PRSA is pleased to announce two new award competions for work in the field of Puerto Rican studies, one for books and one for dissertations. Information on both is included below.
The Puerto Rican Studies Association is pleased to announce its first PRSA Book Award competition, the winner of which will be made public at our coming conference in Hartford, Ct. and at every PRSA meeting thereafter. The Award will be given in recognition of the competing book that best addresses issues and concerns of Puerto Ricans and their communities, and represents a preeminent contribution to the field of Puerto Rican Studies. For the 2010 meeting, only books published between October 2008 and January 2010 will be eligible for consideration.
Nominations for this prize may be made by any PRSA member, by individual authors or by publishers. Anyone presenting a book for consideration should send a copy of the nominated book directly to each member of the Book Award Committee at their addresses listed below. All nominations must be received no later than 15 April 2010.
PRSA BOOK AWARD COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Roberto Márquez (Chair)
Latin American Studies Program
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, Ma. 01075
Jossianna Arroyo
2.116 Benedict Hall
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Texas, Austin TX 78712,
Kelvin Santiago Valles
Sociology Department
Binghamton University
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
The Puerto Rican Studies Association will launch its Dissertation Award competition at its coming conference at Hartford, CT and at every PRSA meeting thereafter. Open to dissertations completed and filed between October 2008 and April 2010, the prize will recognize the best competing doctoral dissertation in the field of Puerto Rican Studies, without regard to particular topic, approach, or discipline. The award committee will judge submissions on overall quality, intellectual caliber, scholarly originality, and its contribution to comparative Puerto Rican Studies.
Applicants must submit 1) paper copy of their dissertation, 2) one-page dissertation abstract, 3) advisor statement of completion, and 4) current C.V. directly to each member of the Dissertation Award Committee listed below. Material must arrive no later than 1 June 2010.
PRSA DISSERTATION AWARD COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Magali Roy-Féquière (Chair)
1737 N. Kellogg St.
Galesburg, IL 61401
Guillermo Irizarry
15 White Ave.
West Hartford, CT 06119
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
American Culture, Univ. of Michigan
3700 Haven Hall
505 S. State St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
María D. Mulero Díaz
Urb. Campo Lago, #56
Palmas, Cidra, PR 00739