Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

2010

 

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.

 

2009

Best First Book (tie):

Marta V. Vicente, Clothing the Spanish Empire: Families and the Calico Trade in the Early Modern Atlantic World. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2006.
&
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert. A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

with honorable mention to Katie Harris. From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.


A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History:  Alvaro S. Pereira, "The Opportunity of a Disaster: The Economic Impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake," The Journal of Economic History 69:2 (2009):  466-499.

Bishko Prize: Brian Catlos, "The de Reys (1220-1501): The Evolution of a 'Middle-Class' Muslim Family in Christian Aragon" Viator 40 (2009): 197-219.

2008

 

Best First Article: Marcy Norton, "Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics" American Historical Review 111:3 (2006): 660-690.

Bishko Prize: Jessica A. Boon, "The Agony of the Virgin: The Swoons and Crucifixion of Mary in Sixteenth Century Castilian Passion Treatises," Sixteenth Century Studies 38:1 (2007): 3-26.

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History (tie):
Maria de Lurdes Rosa, "Santa Maria de Oliveira, demónios e reis: o uso de poder sagrado por um santuário medieval," Boletim de Trabalhos Históricos 2007/08, pp. 135-153.
&
Tiago C.P. dos Reis Miranda, "Antó
nio Freire de Andrade Encerrabodes (1699-1783): no espelho de Pombal," Penélope. Número 30-31 (2004), pp. 93-134. [published in 2008]

2007


Bishko Prize:

 

A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History: Lorraine White, "Strategic Geography and the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy's Failure to Recover Portugal, 1640-1668."  The Journal of Military History,  71 (April 2007), pp. 373-409.

Best Dissertation in Iberian History (2005-2007): Gabriel Paquette

2006


Bishko Prize: Katherine Elliot van Liere

Best First Book Award (2004-2006): Sasha David Pack, Tourism and Dictatorship:  Europe's Peaceful Invasion of Franco's Spain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
    
2005


Bishko Prize: James D'Emilio

Best First Article Award (2003-2005): Scott Taylor

2004


Bishko Prize: Richard P. Kinkade

Best Dissertation in Iberian History (2002-2004): Amanda Jaye Wunder

2003


Bishko Prize: John Williams


Best First Book Award (2001-2003): David Coleman

2002


Best First Article Award (2000-2002): Gretchen Starr-Lebeau