The ASPHS offers three prizes for excellence in scholarship in Iberian history by scholars.
On a three year rotation the Association offers a prize for the best dissertation award, the best first article award, and best first book award. The Prize in 2010 will be for best first book. The committee is chaired by David Ortiz, Jr. of the University of Arizona. Deadlines are established and announced by the awards committee; entries are usually due in December or January. Prizes carry an honorarium of $250.
In 2007 ASPHS held the first competition for the A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History. The prize was created through an endowment from Dr. Harold Johnson, and it carries an honorarium of $250. The committee is chaired by Francis A. Dutra of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Another prize is the annual Bishko Prize, in honor of Professor Charles Julian Bishko, for the best article on medieval Iberian history published by a North American scholar. The prize carries an honorarium of $250. The committee is chaired by William D. Phillips, Jr. of the University of Minnesota.
2008 Prize Winners (Awarded in 2009):
Best First Article:
Marcy Norton, "Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics" American Historical Review 111:3 (2006): 660-690.
Bishko Prize:
Jessica A. Boon, "The Agony of the Virgin: The Swoons and Crucifixion of Mary in Sixteenth Century Castilian Passion Treatises," Sixteenth Century Studies 38:1 (2007): 3-26.
A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History (tie):
Maria de Lurdes Rosa, "Santa Maria de Oliveira, demónios e reis: o uso de poder sagrado por um santuário medieval," Boletim de Trabalhos Históricos 2007/08, pp. 135-153.
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Tiago C.P. dos Reis Miranda, "António Freire de Andrade Encerrabodes (1699-1783): no espelho de Pombal,” Penélope. Número 30-31 (2004), pp.
93-134. [published in 2008]
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