See also Silvert Award History
The Kalman Silvert Award Committee invites nominations of candidates for the year 2013 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)
Julio Cotler (2012)
The selection committee consists of: Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida (chair), LASA immediate past president; John Coatsworth and Eric Hershberg, past presidents; Philip Oxhorn, editor of the Latin American Research Review and Julio Cotler, 2012 Kalman Silvert awardee. Nominations should be sent to LASA Executive Director Milagros Pereyra-Rojas <milagros@pitt.edu> by September 7, 2012. Please include biographic information and a rationale for each nomination.