LACS\SHA Minutes, 2003
Houston
Richmond Brown, President:
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Thanks to Western Kentucky
University for giving Andrew McMichael (Sec.-Tres.) a great deal of help in
sending out notices
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Thanks also to SMU and Vanderbilt
for sponsoring the reception and the Executive Committee meeting
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Prize announcements:
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The Ralph Lee Woodward prize
for graduate student paper presentation last year went to Barry Robinson of
Vanderbilt
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Our article prize last year
went to Hal Langfur for "Uncertain Refuge: Frontier Formation and the
Origins of the Botocudo War in Late Colonial Brazil," HAHR 82:2 (May
2002)
John Britton, Book Prize Committee chair:
- Strong field this year, but unanimous decision
- The winner is Alejandro de la Fuente. A
Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Andrew McMichael, Secretary-Treasurer:
- The SHA focuses on affiliate membership, and
ours has gone from 10 to 53
- We will now be getting a teaching luncheon
- Our current fees are $16, $7 for affiliate,
and $9 for LACS
- $9 is not enough, and the Executive Committee
is proposing $20, $7 for graduate students
- We need money for the book and article prize
money. For these prizes we need a $5000 endowment
- We need to get our membership to 100 for
recertification with the SHA. The European section is at 95 and we need to be
on par with them to increase panels, etc.
- SHA is talking to us about life membership.
This provides quick cash, but it costs us money over lifetime. Also, if SHA
raises affiliate rate, it could cost us money.
- The Executive Committee is talking about a
newsletter. Several members want something on paper because they don't do
e-mail
Motion: A motion was made to
accept the Executive Committee's recommendation to raise fees to $20 for all
members except graduate students, whose rate would be placed at $7. The motion
was seconded, and carried without objection.
Jane Landers, Program Chair, 2004:
- We sent a call out to several H-Net lists and
some organizations that had theri own lists. We wanted to broaden our
membership. Our papers luckily match SHA goals of broadening their own base
and the SHA program committee was very pleased
- Mostly we got individual papers (which I
think is good). We had one fully constituted panel submitted, the rest were
individual papers. We will have six panels, and we put some extra papers in
graduate student panels.
- We wanted more Caribbean and our panels
include one fully Caribbean panel
- The SHA is pleased that we are doing
different things and that it fits with their goals
- Michael Polushin is program chair for Atlanta
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2004 Panels
Michael Polushin, Program Chair, 2005:
- We are guaranteed six panels for Atlanta
Richmond Brown, President-Elect
- The Executive Committee talked about
structure of book prize. Outgoing chair will rotate off, there will be two
other members, and no one will have more than a two year term. This prize is a
marketing opportunity
- The Woodward Prize Committee will be made up
of Tim Henderson, Lance Graham, and Pamela Murray
- Program Committee will be Program Chair and
two people named by chair.
- By-laws Committee: Marshall Eakin, Richmond
Brown, and the new President-elect
- The Nominating Committee nominated Ginger
Gould of Tulane for President-Elect
Voice Vote:
Virginia Gould was elected unanimously
by voice vote as President-Elect.
Tom O'Brien, (University of Houston), Speaker
- O'Brien discussed his current work on
Inter-American relations in the last 200 years and the status of the
discipline of study of early Inter-American relations.
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