Conference on Latin American History

Conference on Latin American History, founded in 1926, is the professional organization of Latin American historians affiliated with the American Historical Association. It publishes the journal The Hispanic American Historical Review.[1][2]

History

In 1916 a group of Latin American historians within the American Historical Association met to create institutional structures for this branch of history. Latin Americanists were marginalized within the AHA, with few sessions at the annual meeting and limited space within the American Historical Review. This group founded The Hispanic American Historical Review at the Cincinnati meeting of the AHA.[3][4] Further work building a professional organization was accomplished in 1926 at the American Historical Association annual meeting in Rochester. Latin Americanists sought to expand the teaching of Latin American history and organized a session entitled “Means and Methods of Widening among Colleges and Universities an Interest in the Study of Hispanic-American History.” The 1926 meeting led further work to create an identifiable group within the American Historical Association.[5] The constitution of the Conference on Latin American History was adopted in December 1938.[6] CLAH gained a firmer institutional grounding with its incorporation in the District of Columbia in 1964, giving it a legal identity, and locating its offices in the Hispanic Foundation (now Hispanic Division) in the Library of Congress. With that step, CLAH was no longer an organic part of the AHA, but “an affiliated but autonomous body.”[7]

In 1964, the AHA was granted $125,000 by the Ford Foundation to aid over three years the expansion of CLAH’s activities. The AHA received the funds that were disbursed to CLAH. All funding was for programmatic purposes and not for the support of individuals’ research. The projects identified for funding were to provide a bibliographical guide to nineteenth- and twentieth-century newspapers; develop policies for the collection of historical statistics for the field; discuss and plan for a multivolume history of Latin America; develop teaching aids for the field; fund for small conferences; earmark funds for preparation of colonial sources for publication; and develop a publication series of general works. The Hispanic Foundation at the Library of Congress was named the repository of the CLAH archives and provided services for the CLAH Secretariat.[8]

Organizational Structure

The organization is governed by the General Committee. There is an executive committee: president (formerly chair), vice president, past president, and the executive secretary. Serving ex officio on the General Committee is the editor of Hispanic American Historical Review, the editor of The Americas, and the editor of H-LATAM, the National Endowment for the Humanities listserv for Latin America.[9] As CLAH grew in membership and complexity of its fields, it established a series of committees with regional or other focus including Andean Studies, Atlantic world studies; Borderlands/Frontiers; Brazilian Studies; Caribbean Studies; Central American Studies; Chile-Rio de la Plata studies; Colonial studies; Gran Colombian studies; Mexican studies; and the committee on teaching and teaching materials.[10]

Prizes

Starting in 1953, CLAH established a series of prizes, the first being the James A. Robertson Prize for the best article published in the Hispanic American Historical Review, followed by others for particular fields. Prizes now include the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor of the organization; the Herbert E. Bolton-John J. Johnson Prize for the best book in English on Latin American history; the Lewis Hanke Award to enable revision of a dissertation into a publishable book; the James R. Scobie Awards to support travel for dissertation research; the Lydia Cabrera Award, for Cuban history up to 1898; the Howard F. Cline Memorial Prize for the best book on Latin American ethnohistory; the Warren Dean Award for Brazilian history; the Elinor Melville Award for the best book in environmental history; the María Elena Martínez Prize for the best work on Mexican history; Paul Vanderwood Award for the best article published in a journal other than Hispanic American Historical Review; the Antonine Tibesar Award for the best article published in The Americas.[11]

Chairs and Presidents

  • 2015-2016 Jerry Dávila
  • 2013-2014 Jane Landers
  • 2011-2012 Cynthia Radding
  • 2009-2010 Mary Kay Vaughan
  • 2007-2008 Jeffrey Lesser
  • 2005-2006 Mark Wasserman
  • 2003-2004 Ann Twinam
  • 2001-2002 Asunción Lavrin
  • 1999-2000 Susan Socolow
  • 1997-1998 Lyman Johnson
  • 1995-1996 Donna Guy
  • 1994 Florencia Mallon
  • 1992 Eric Van Young
  • 1991 E. Bradford Burns
  • 1990 Murdo J. MacLeod
  • 1989 Ralph Lee Woodward
  • 1988 John V. Lombardi
  • 1987 Peggy K. Liss

Chairpersons

Distinguished Service Award

  • 2016 Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland
  • 2015 Herbert S. Klein, Stanford University
  • 2014 Lyman R. Johnson, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • 2013 Valerie Millholland, Senior Editor with Duke University Press
  • 2012 Susan Socolow, Emory University
  • 2011 Paul Vanderwood, San Diego State University
  • 2010 Richard Graham, University of Texas at Austin
  • 2009 Friedrich Katz, University of Chicago
  • 2008 Asunción Lavrin, Arizona State University
  • 2007 William B. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
  • 2006 Georgette Dorn, Library of Congress
  • 2005 Charles A. Hale, University of Iowa
  • 2004 James Lockhart, UCLA
  • 2003 Thomas Skidmore, Brown University
  • 2002 Ralph Lee Woodward, Texas Christian University
  • 2001 Michael C. Meyer, University of Arizona
  • 2000 Emilia Viotti da Costa, Yale University
  • 1999 Dauril Alden, University of Washington
  • 1998 Richard Greenleaf, Tulane University
  • 1997 John Lynch, University of London.
  • 1996 David Bushnell, University of Florida
  • 1995 John Jay TePaske, Duke University
  • 1994 Tulio Halperin-Donghi, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1993 E. Bradford Burns, University of California, Los Angeles
  • 1992 Magnus Mörner
  • 1991 Stanley J. Stein, Princeton University
  • 1990 Ursula Lamb, University of Arizona
  • 1989 William J. Griffith, University of Kansas
  • 1987 Co-Awards: John J. Johnson, Stanford University
  • 1987 Charles R. Boxer, Yale University
  • 1985 Benjamin Keen, Northern Illinois University
  • 1983 Irving A. Leonard, University of Michigan
  • 1981 Charles Gibson, University of Michigan
  • 1979 Woodrow Borah, University of California at Berkeley
  • 1977 Arthur P. Whitaker, University of Pennsylvania
  • 1975 Nettie Lee Benson, University of Texas at Austin
  • 1973 Lewis Hanke, University of Massachusetts
  • 1971 Howard F. Cline, Library of Congress
  • 1970 Charles Griffin, Vassar College

Bolton-Johnson Prize - Best Book in English

External links

References

  1. Howard F. Cline, “The Conference: A Fecund Decade, 1954-1964”. Hispanic American Historical Review 45:434-438 (August 1965).
  2. ”Historical Notes” http://clah.h-net.org/?page_id=577,
  3. John Tate Lanning, “The Hispanist in the American Historical Association” in Latin American History: Essays on Its Study and Teaching, 1898-1965, compiled and edited by Howard F. Cline.2 vols. Austin: University of Texas Press 1967, vol. 2, pp. 641-42.
  4. http://hahr-online.com/about-hahr/
  5. ”Report of a Committee of the Pan American Union on the Teaching of Latin-American History in Colleges, Normal Schools, and Universities of the United States.” Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 7 No. 3 (Aug. 1927), pp. 352-385.
  6. “Report of the Committee on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary” by Donald E. Worcester, John P. Harrison, Bernard E. Bobb. Mimeographed report. Conference on Latin American History Archives, Hispanic Foundation, Library of Congress (Dec. 1953) published in Latin American History: Essays on Its Study and Teaching, 1898-1965. vol. 2, p. 462.
  7. Howard F. Cline, “The Conference: A Fecund Decade, 1954-1964” Hispanic American Historical Review 45: 434-438 (Aug. 1965).
  8. Howard F. Cline, "The Ford Foundation Grant Program of the Conference: A Special Report" in Latin American History: Essays on Its Study and Teaching, 1898-1965, pp. 653-655. Originally published in the CLAH Newsletter, Jan. 1965.
  9. https://networks.h-net.org/h-latam
  10. http://clah.h-net.org/
  11. http://clah.h-net.org/?page_id=60
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