CALL FOR SILVERT AWARD NOMINATIONS

Deadline: June 1, 2008

The Kalman Silvert Award Committee invites nominations of candidates for the year 2009 award. The Silvert Award recognizes senior members of the profession who have made distinguished lifetime contributions to the study of Latin America. The Award is given every 18 months.

Past recipients of the Award were:
 
John J. Johnson (1983)
Federico Gil (1985)
Albert O. Hirschman (1986)
Charles Wagley (1988)
Lewis Hanke (1989)
Victor L. Urquidi (1991)
George Kubler (1992)
Osvaldo Sunkel (1994)
Richard Fagen (1995)
Alain Touraine (1997)
Richard Adams (1998)
Jean Franco (2000)
Thomas Skidmore (2001)
Guillermo O’Donnell (2003)
June Nash (2004)
Miguel León-Portilla (2006)
Helen Safa (2007)

The selection committee consists of Charles R. Hale (chair), LASA immediate past president; Sonia E. Alvarez and Marysa Navarro, past presidents, Philip Oxhorn, editor of the Latin American Research Review, and Helen Safa, 2007 Kalman Silvert awardee.

Nominations should be sent by June 1, 2008 to:

Milagros Pereyra-Rojas
LASA Executive Director
LASA Secretariat
416 Bellefield Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

E-mail: lasa@pitt.edu 

Please include biographic information and a rationale for each nomination.