The Kalman Silvert Award Committee invites nominations of candidates for the year 2012 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 at each LASA International Congress.
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)
Alfred Stepan (2009)
Edelberto Torres-Rivas (2010)
The selection committee consists of: John Coatsworth (chair), LASA immediate past president; Eric Hershberg and Charles R. Hale, past presidents; Philip Oxhorn, editor of the Latin American Research Review: and Edelberto Torres-Rivas, 2010 Kalman Silvert awardee.
Nominations should be sent by May 1, 2011 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.