The ASPHS offers three prizes for excellence in scholarship in Iberian history by scholars.
On a three-year rotation, the Association offers a prize for the best dissertation award, the best first article award, and best first book award. Prizes carry an honorarium of $250. The 2011 prize, for best article, has been posted here.
In 2007 ASPHS held the first competition for the A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History. The prize was created through an endowment from Dr. Harold Johnson, and it carries an honorarium of $250. The 2011 announcement has been posted here.
Another prize is the annual Bishko Prize, in honor of Professor Charles Julian Bishko, for the best article on medieval Iberian history published by a North American scholar. The prize carries an honorarium of $250. The 2011 announcement will be posted soon.
2010 Prize Winners (Awarded in 2011)
Best
Dissertation: Katrina Olds, "The 'False Chronicles' in Early Modern
Spain: Forgery, Tradition, and the Invention of Texts and Relics"
(Princeton University, 2009)
A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History: Maria Eugenia Mata, “As Small Events May Have Large Long-Run Effects on Business Perspectives (Portugal, 1940s),” Problems And Perspectives In Management, Vol. 8, Issue 3 (June 2010), pp. 17-30.
Bishko Prize:
Olivia Remie Constable, for her article, "Regulating Religious Noise:
The Council of Vienne, the Mosque Call, and Muslim Pilgrimage in the
Late Medieval Mediterranean World," Medieval Encounters 16 (2010): 64-95.